And so to bed

[commodorified]

But first, a question:

I've always had trouble switching the focus of my eyes from "near" to "far"; when I'm tired, or have been reading of knitting over my glasses or with them off for a long time (dreadful habit, I know), or using the computer (glasses on),

1) it takes awhile for my to get my eyes to refocus for distance. When I'm writing or editing or working with vids I find I have to go outside and stare at a building across the river for a bit every hour or so, to fend off eyestrain.

2) When I get overly tired these days, my eyes start tracking more and more slowly; I'll turn my head sharply and my eyes will register this change in their own sweet time. This gives me some interesting afterimages, and also sometimes a mild case of seasickness, as it comes with a definite swoopy sensation.

3) I have progressives, but instead of the cliche of holding the menu or whatever far from my face, I still end up taking my glasses off and putting the text or small item I am working on right in front of my eyes; I may be myopic as Hell but my near vision is AMAZING; I get most of the fiddly jobs in this household for a reason.

Does anyone else get these three things? I don't think any of them is an actual problem, beyond the usual "Oh, yeah, eye-test time", I'm just curious.

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[indywind]

#3 describes my spouse perfectly; she is so myopic as to be nearly blind without correction (and her worse eye is nearly at the limit of contact lense correctability), but near vision so good she can read the maker's mark printed around the outside edge of her contacts as she puts them in. She prefers to do close work without correction, but needs contacts to drive (glasses at her prescription produce too much distortion outside the narrow focal field), and for archery. She and her optometrist are still trying to figure out how to balance conflicting needs of strong congenital myopia and age-related presbyopia.

I get 1 and 2. Also when I'm tired, I get "lazy eye"; I had strabismus as an infant, surgically corrected, but it left a slight imbalance in the small muscles that orient the eye which shows up with fatigue. Plus photosensitivity. Eye strain, motion sickness, headaches. I didn't even need to be Aspergerish to get in trouble for keeping my eyes down, squinting, not holding my face right.