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What Is Myopia and How Does It Affect Everyday Vision?
A patient once described her vision to me in a way that has stayed with me: “The world looks perfectly fine until it is more than an arm’s length away.” She could read a menu, thread a needle, and scroll through her phone without effort. But street signs, classroom boards, faces across a room, and subtitles on a television had slowly softened into blur. That is a familiar story for many people with myopia. Myopia, commonly called nearsightedness, is one of the most frequ