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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I know a guy who REALLY needs glasses. Can't see shit more than 3 inches away without them. You can sneak up on him in broad daylight by walking in the open right toward him, he can't make out the blob until about 15ft away. Probably legally blind, but I don't actually know that.

He refuses to wear glasses while driving "because all the lights hurt my eyes".

So basically at night he keeps it between the white/yellow blurs and avoids the blobs headed toward him, and during the day he tries to avoid the colored blobs while staying on the gray/black smear.

Remember, you share the road with these people daily! Incidentally I'm all for mandatory 5 year retesting for driver licenses and a yearly one after a certain age. No, I don't think that's ageist or wrong.

ANECDOTE TIME: My own grandfather drove right up until he was moved into a care home, and he was having seizures and strokes intermittently. The last time I spoke to him before he lost access to his truck, he told me he had to ask for help getting back into the truck because his leg wouldn't move, AND he nearly took out someone's mailbox because he took a turn so wide he jumped the sidewalk and went into a yard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He refuses to wear glasses while driving "because all the lights hurt my eyes".

If your eyes aren't used to glasses, guess what? You get a headache. If you wear them long enough, your body gets used to them, and you stop getting headaches.

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