Does not wearing your glasses make your vision worse?

Yes: Your eyes will continue to change and adjust in order to maintain your vision, sometimes even if 1 eye gets lazier.

NO: Not wearing glasses-if you need them---will not make your eyes worse, but you won't see as well as you should and this may cause or headache or eye strain--but no permanent damage will occur.

No: This is a common misconception. Wearing glasses to correct refractive error does not make your vision worse or increase your refractive error over time. Refractive error is an imbalance between the length of your eye and it's optical power. Glasses simply compensate for that imbalance.

Old message: There is a common feeling that wearing glasses will somehow affect the focusing ability of the eye in a permanent way. There is no evidence for this. A special case is hyperopia (farsightedness) which in the 20-40 age group, will get headaches without glasses which relieves that but causes more blur in between when the glasses are not worn. Wear glasses to see better - that is all.