re: #119 ckkatz

Yes, l have been wearing eyeglasses since 1963. My identity is not associated with the concept of not wearing glasses. In the end, I opted for monofocal lenses rather than multifocal., (There are a some new multifocal lenses out recently that do not use ‘rings’ and thus have less of a problem with halos at night.)

After a lot of thought, having been badly nearsighted my whole life, I also decided to go with correction for far vision.

Interesting decisions with the need to understand myself better.

I’ve been wearing glasses since 1966. I wore hard contacts for 10 years, and went back to glasses for a cross-country bike trip. They weren’t compatible with the bike trip because getting something in my eye required popping the lens out right away sometimes, and that’s just not practical on a bike ride. Plus the sanitary needs are not met while camping in weird places. My vision gradually changed for a year after quitting the hard lenses. Then I was in glasses for 35 years. Last July, I was switched to modern soft contacts to deal with a few vision problems from cranial nerve damage from when I was hit by a car 8 years ago. I got the one far/one near set up, and only then found out my older brother has those and so do a lot of people. I still reach to take off my glasses when I go to wash my face, or go to push them up my nose if I want to see something more clearly.