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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Everyone needs reading glasses when they get into their mid 40s.
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Originally Posted by dwig
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.
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Not true. 67 here, and three months ago my eye doctor pronounced, "Perfect vision in one eye, slightly nearsighted in the other."
As I began to suffer the onset of "far-sighted of the aged" sometime in my late 50s, I forced myself to exercise my near vision. I play maybe 20 minutes of solitaire most every day on a PDA with brightness turned down, and with the PDA held very close to my face. Sometimes it takes a bit of strain and blinking to focus properly, but the end result is that I've maintained enough near vision at this age to be able to read fine print. When I told my eye doctor what I've been doing, expecting to be admonished, he just said, "Good idea!"
Three years ago I met someone at a high school reunion who was 62 and had perfect near and far vision, better than mine. She was a school teacher by trade, so maybe something about that occupation helped her.
My trick may not work for everyone, as I've always had good vision (20/12 at age 20).