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Originally Posted by herebedragons69
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I am 44 and everyone tells me that requiring reading glasses at this age is not unusual., but it worries me. ...
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Don't worry, but not everyone every needs reading glasses. There are three broad classes of people that don't:
- Those that are blind
- Those that fail to live to middle age
- Those who are sufficiently near sighted enough to read w/o glasses though they need glasses for distant vision.
As you age your eyes loss their ability to accommodate to different distances. Accomodation involves for focusing and slightly rotating the eyes inward or outward to align the two images at varying distances. The age related change involves focus. Your eyes become nearly fixed focus with age and you require different strength correction lenses for each distance range (read: multiple sets of glasses or bi/trifocals). If you require no correction for distance then only reading glasses are required, at least at first.
I, myself, fall into #3, above, and require one correction for distance, another for "computer screen distance", but no correction for normal small print reading. When I was in my 40s and early 50s I could read small print with my "computer" glasses but now at 63yrs my focusing range has narrowed to the point that I need to remove my glasses to read normal text on a handheld device (tablet, eReader, ...), printed books, or the d@#n small labels at the grocery store. Altogether, growing older is better than the alternative.