don95sml
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Age 15, when I couldn't easily read the chalkboard in science class. Bifocals at about age 40, the usual age I guess.
How old were you when your peepers started needing help?
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Alpo
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Third grade, so that'd be what - 13, 14? 
Bassamatic
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Reading glasses at the mid 40's for me. At 62 now I don't wear glasses for distance, I can pass all the eye tests for driving, etc., but I still think I need a pair of prescription glasses for night driving or the theater. Things are just not as crisp as they once were.
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26. Astigmatism. Nearsighted. Both my parents had it. I was on a pistol team in college, I felt my scores weren't what they should be, so I went to an optometrist. I should be wearing bifocals now, but my SIL (6 years younger) has had them for years, still isn't used to them, so I just
take my glasses off to read, do close work, etc.
take my glasses off to read, do close work, etc.
glypnir
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I had horrible crossed eyes from birth. They gave me glasses with prisms, had me do eye exercises, weakened the muscles on the strong eye with surgery. The surgery made the crossed eyes very hard to see, but didn't uncross them.
Eventually, I developed, unconsciously, biological bifocals. I use my left (nearsighted) eye for close up, and my right eye for distance, still at 20-15 at 54 years old. I only use glasses for driving, since the state of Texas likes me to be able to read road signs with both eyes. A diopter of -1 in the left eye, with a bifocal in that eye as well. Right eye is plain glass.
I do have to use reading glasses for small print, like on medicine bottles and such. I still only use my left eye. I have a monocle, but I keep forgetting to hang it around my neck in the morning.
Left eye focuses on front sight, right eye is dominant, can focus on target, but not on front sight.
Eventually, I developed, unconsciously, biological bifocals. I use my left (nearsighted) eye for close up, and my right eye for distance, still at 20-15 at 54 years old. I only use glasses for driving, since the state of Texas likes me to be able to read road signs with both eyes. A diopter of -1 in the left eye, with a bifocal in that eye as well. Right eye is plain glass.
I do have to use reading glasses for small print, like on medicine bottles and such. I still only use my left eye. I have a monocle, but I keep forgetting to hang it around my neck in the morning.
Left eye focuses on front sight, right eye is dominant, can focus on target, but not on front sight.
Phillips7609
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I was just like you; always had perfect vision. I noticed I was having to hold small print farther and farther away to focus on it. I can still see for a country mile but I have to have readers. (1.25 to 1.50 power)
Mine probably started at about 40, maybe 41.
NWGun
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HA!!
45 for me
Perfect vision for 40 years, then it started to degrade. At first I just used brighter lights to read, but finally had to buy drugstore reading glasses when I was about 43, 44. Things went downhill from there. Now at 64 nothing is in focus at any distance without lenses, save that on the brightest days I can sometimes force my eyes to focus briefly on something in the distance without glasses. But I'm doing that by changing the shape of my eyeball (eyestrain!) rather than the lens.
wheelgun1958
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Somewhere around 9 or 10. I was playing little league and couldn't see the ball or the bases.
84CJ
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Well let me see 
I had back surgery couple years ago and during the 3 month recovery time I noticed things were not as sharp as they used to be. Thought it was the drugs. Told the doctor "I can't wait to get off these meds they are screwing up my eyesight" he said don't count on it.It has only gotten worse
. But for now my arms are still long enough to not wear glasses
I had back surgery couple years ago and during the 3 month recovery time I noticed things were not as sharp as they used to be. Thought it was the drugs. Told the doctor "I can't wait to get off these meds they are screwing up my eyesight" he said don't count on it.It has only gotten worse
. But for now my arms are still long enough to not wear glasses
Knightrider03m
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16. I'm near sided
NCTexan
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I guess mine ain't so good.... I didn't notice the "s" on it at first. Thought you were getting kinda personal there.
I almost answered that it was about three years ago when I started needing to get up to go two or three times during the night.
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otis24
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Like you, I had eagle eye vision. I could read the finest print. I did one of those eye tests at Wally World that gave a little print out saying I was far sighted. A year or two later we got vision insurance at work and I went to an eye doctor. He stated that I was at the age to start needing glasses (40 yrs old) but that my vision was about twice as bad as it should be. I got prescription reading glasses but didn't use them much for the next two years. I started a job where I was on the computer all the time and just left my glasses on all day at work. Since then, I have gotten bifocals which I wear full time and can't read a thing without them. I am now 44. Sure is heck getting old!
42 here... seems like it's the age for most..
dasnake
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40,forty,fourtee,
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Late forties, and then in early sixties I needed bifocals. But last summer (at 67) I passed my driver's license test with no glasses. It was hard, but I did it. I would not drive without them.
The real pain is to shoot. I can see the sights or the target, but not both clearly. Scopes are different, but I'm not putting scopes on my handguns.
The real pain is to shoot. I can see the sights or the target, but not both clearly. Scopes are different, but I'm not putting scopes on my handguns.
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