[ SECRET POST #2331 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2331 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[2NE1, AoA (Ace Of Angels), Wonder Girls and Sistar]


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[Community]


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[The Rap Critic]


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[Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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[Hannibal]


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[Resident Evil]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Eurovision]


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[Rodrigo y Gabriela]


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[Shingeki no Kyojin]


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[Hannibal]


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[Big Bang Theory]


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[requiem for a dream]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get a little bit irked when someone makes a statement saying "A lot of people are this way..." and then someone else comes along and says "I'M NOT THO!" as if that renders person #1's argument invalid.

No one gives a fuck if you don't wear glasses even though you started reading in utero. For a lot of people, there's a correlation.

TNA

[(Anonymous)]

That only pisses me off when it's something like a group of black people saying "white people are horrible" when a white person has continued the white tradition of shitting on black people, and some white person comes along and says "I'm white and we're not all like that!!!" In this case, someone has made a statement that actually isn't an argument - it's just an incorrect statement with no scientific merit. If someone comes on FS and says "the world is flat," sorry, not going to cater to them.

[(Anonymous)]

And you don't think that outliers might mean your hypothesis is wrong? I've yet to find a study that shows a link between reading and eye trouble. You are making a preposterous statement backed up by very little fact and expecting people who are in direct contradiction to your broad statement to just accept your generalization because you and some nebulous "everybody" knows it to be true.

[(Anonymous)]

I have had optometrists tell me there is a correlation and I myself found that I stopped needing to get stronger glasses as soon as I finished school.

[(Anonymous)]

Stop seeing optometrists over the internet.

Again, please provide citations. Your experience isn't proof of anything when the majority of people have had the opposite experience.

[(Anonymous)]

http://www.aoa.org/x4688.xml#1
"People who do an excessive amount of near vision work may experience a false or “pseudo” myopia. Their blurred distance vision is caused by over use of the eyes’ focusing mechanism. After long periods of near work, their eyes are unable to refocus to see clearly in the distance. The symptoms are usually temporary and clear distance vision may return after resting the eyes. However, over time constant visual stress may lead to a permanent reduction in distance vision."

http://www.aoa.org/x5253.xml

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6117-lifestyle-causes-myopia-not-genes.html

http://www.myopia.org/

[truxillogical]

Huh? No kidding.

Maybe I should do all the reading/drawing/knitting/tiny-close-up stuff then. My eyesight is pretty bad.

[(Anonymous)]

Pseudo myopia. As in, not actually myopia...

[(Anonymous)]

Permanent reduction. As in, not just temporary...

Read all the words. Not just the ones you like.

[(Anonymous)]

may - as in, possibly - no medical proof that this is actually a correlation.

Read all the words. Not just the ones you like.

[poisonenvy]

My eyesight also stopped getting bad by the time I was finished school (at 18). I paid attention to this since I got lasers shot into my eyes when I was around nineteen, and your vision needs to be stable for about six months.

I still read quite a bit, and was a full-time student in University. I'm pretty sure it had less to do with the fact that I was done school (... Did you stop reading when you finished school, by the way?), and more the fact that I wasn't developing much anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Your (and the previous commenter's) eyes stopped getting bad after school because your eyes are still developing until you reach 18-20 years old just like the rest of your body. You don't pop out of the womb with eyeballs that stay perfect and pristine and don't grow. That has nothing to do with the amount of reading you did.

[poisonenvy]

Uhm.... I'm pretty sure that is exactly what my previous comment said.

[(Anonymous)]

And my eyes stopped needing to get stronger glasses when I got contacts at 13 years old. Despite the fact I still read voraciously. (Yes, I read at 3, but so far this year I've read over 40 books, and my vision hasn't gotten any worse.)

I much more attribute my needing to wear glasses/contacts with my parents needing to do so than the fact I read early and often. (Especially as my sister needed glasses a year earlier than I and it was before she even read. She got glasses at 5 and read at 6.)

[(Anonymous)]

I think when people do that, it's not because they're trying to be different or anything. It's just that someone has made a generalized statement about something that applies to them, and they're chiming in because something about it is different for them.

Contradicting something doesn't necessarily mean that they're trying to disprove it or render it invalid. A knee-jerk reaction contradiction seems more detrimental than someone potentially being a special snowflake, imo.