Echoing everyone here, I feel your pain. I'm not blind without my glasses but so near-sighted that it poses a major problem. What really scares me about being without my glasses is that it's like my field of awareness gets shrunken down to the inches directly around me. I start bumping into walls and people like a cartoon character, because I can't concentrate on what's coming. Similarly, I'm way more likely to get hit in the head by a ball because I won't notice it coming.

I'm the first person in my family to have eye problems from youth, but my parents are getting older and needing reading glasses. And when they say thing like, "I have no idea where I put my glasses" or "oh of course I can't read this, I'm not wearing glasses!" a part of me thinks HOW DO YOU LIVE?!

Ugh, not to mention that they let thumbprints and water spots on their glasses all the time. It took me several years to train the people around me to know that if it rains, I either have to have my head down or my glasses off, so no, I can't concentrate on what you're saying because I'm just trying to get to the nearest dry area without hurting myself.