Will my eye doctor's solution to my vision problem give me comprehension/expression problems? (details follow)

Question

I'll be brief.

I am very near sighted. Doc has corrected my right eye for distance vision, and my left for close vision.

I was told learning disabilities are prominent in individuals who are right-handed with left eye dominant. I was told this was due to the brain needing to make an extra "loop" (eg, when copying notes: from left eye to right brain, then an extra loop to the left hemisphere in order to control the right hand.)

Since correcting my vision would essentally make me left-eye dominant for studying, can it cause problems?

BTW, I asked my doctor. His answer: "That's the way it's always done." :(

Answer 1

It depends on who you talk to. They usually fit you for your distance in your Dominant for distance eye, and near in the other. This is usually what your body does naturally, they are just enhancing a process that is already there. Assuming you are right eye dominant for distance, you are then left eye dominant for near. If he fit you the other way, you would be putting things kind of topsy turvey and that would make no sense at all. Fitting you the correct way will not make your eye dominence change. I really do not think it will cause you much greif!

Answer 2

No.

Although people with learning disabilities may also have cross dominances, the cross dominance does not cause the disablity. Learning disabilties are due to inborn problems is how the brain processes information, if you were not learning disabled before getting your monovision contacts, you will not become LD afterwards.

Answer 3

Did you know that each of your eyes is connected to both hemispheres?

The optic nerve comes out of the back of each eye, and the two come together behind that. Then they split again, so that half the vision in each eye is controlled by each hemisphere.

That is a really fascinating theory, though.

Answer 4

I would not have two bifocal eyes done that way if I could possibly prevent it. It will take colossal getting used to. People who have had strokes and said they had a different focus in each eye, or see different colors with each eye were slowed down by it, and may never really get used to it... a permanent work-around way of thinking and processing visual information has to come into play.

I will stop just short of pleading with you not to do this. Has your doctor, who shrugged "it's always done this way" had it done? Have any of his immediate family members had it done? Find three eye doctors who have had it done to them, and interview them. Reminds me of a doctor who cuts people's big toe off for bunions, and shrugs "that's how it's always done". --Ah, but not for HIM.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Maybe you need to close your eyes and think about that one for a moment, that might free up some RAM and allow your other programs to process more quickly.

Answer 7

judy is right:

monovision does not cause learning disability. it probably HELPS with learning disability b/c you can actually SEE what you're trying to read!