The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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According to mine, even if you have vision problems, it's only a necessity to deal with it either if it seriously hinders you in your daily life, or if you're still fairly young (younger than about 20, IIRC) so that your brain doesn't grow up wrong. If you already made it to middle age and you can live with your eyes as they are, then you can pass on glasses.
I for one was mostly just annoyed by the blurriness at a distance. I recalled seeing sharper when I was younger. But it wasn't a hindrance in any way.
Do you have to test your vision when renewing your driving license in Germany? Here the optometrists will put a "vision correction mandatory" on your certificate if your eye chart performance doesn't impress them.
You don't have to renew it. Unless you lose it somehow. But if you do need to get a new license, then yes, you also need to do the vision test again, and my optometrist did tell me that I probably wouldn't pass muster without glasses (which also means that I would get such a note on my driver's license). Whether that's true, who knows, maybe she just really wanted to make another sale that day, but it's technically possible.
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Thanks. For me it's a relatively new inability to read at very close distances (eg phone with small text in bed). I've got a pair of off the shelf reading glasses from the department store which covers this so I'm going to hold out as long as I can.
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