What is shortsightedness?
Shortsighted people do not see distant objects clearly. The eye normally focuses light into an image on the retina. In a shortsighted eye the light reaches a focus in front of the retina and so the image on the retina is blurred. Your optometrist calls shortsightedness myopia. Common symptoms include squinting and difficulty distinguishing details on the blackboard, road signs and scoreboards. Myopia is easily corrected with either contact lenses or spectacles.
