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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: learning to read at an early age - glasses
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 18:04:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 18:04:51 1983
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Glasses do distort your vision, but in my opinion it isn't enough
distortion to cause trouble with sports.  (At least in my case,
if you wear bottle-bottoms it may be different.)  Your brain will
adjust in about 3 days to the distortion, then things will look
distorted WITHOUT glasses.  (If you have contacts, try going with
glasses only [no contacts] for a week, then putting on your contacts:
things will look distorted for a few days.  I don't really recommend
this experiment since you'll have to get your eyes readjusted to
having something in them.)  There was a classic experiment where
people were given funny glasses that made everything upside down.
After 3 days, their brain flipped everything over and things looked
fine, but were inverted when they took off the glasses.  After 3
days with no glasses, the brain flipped back.

I wore glasses all through school and it didn't stop me from sports.
The only hassle was the glasses getting knocked off, and an elastic
thing across the back solved that.  But I still read a lot.