If you start to wear your glasses all the time, will your eyes become more dependant on them?

Question

I ask this because I wanted to start wearing contacts, i am nearsighted and it is very frustrating to not be able to see things clearly that aren't even that far away..But I also have this theory that if I started wearing them and and they were on my eyes helping me say, take a test when i could do that clearly without them, my eyes would get used to them and start to depend on them more, and i would even need them for upclose things...Is this possible??

Answer 1

No. It is not like a crutch. Your prescription lets you see the way you are supposed to see and your brain likes to see correctly, so if you do use the contacts or glasses to get 20/20 vision it makes your brain happy. Your eyes will progress in their myopia and your vision will have normal ch ages that are the same no matter how much you wear or don't wear your glasses because this is 99.9% heredity that is happening here. Your misconception is very common and many people walk around not seeing well because they think this. That is sad when you are missing so much of life by depriving yourself of good vision.