<p>If you're short-sighted or long-sighted, have astigmatism or double vision, you now live in a world where glasses can help you out.</p><p>But there's a misconception hanging around that wearing spectacles weakens your eyes over time, and so some people avoid getting their vision checked.</p><p>Norman and Tegan focus in on how glasses work and the long term impacts of wearing them.</p><p>References:</p><ul><li><a href="http://abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/short-sightedness-myopia-atropine/104899826">When time outside doesn't slow short-sightedness - the Health Report</a></li><li><a href="https://www.college-optometrists.org/the-british-optical-association-museum/the-history-of-spectacles#:~:text=The%20earliest%20form%20of%20spectacles,people%20to%20correct%20their%20eyesight">The history of spectacles - the College of Optometrists</a></li><li><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7356996/">To Correct or Not Correct? Actual Evidence, Controversy and the Questions That Remain Open</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698902002584?via%3Dihub">Undercorrection of myopia enhances rather than inhibits myopia progression</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD004916.pub3/full">Interventions to slow progression of myopia in children - Cochrane Review</a></li></ul>
