My vision for much of my first 30 years straddled the line where I could get a driver's license that said I didn't need glasses¹ although I started wearing glas

My vision for much of my first 30 years straddled the line where I could get a driver's license that said I didn't need glasses¹ although I started wearing glasses in kindergarten. I was pretty inconsistent about glasses wearing for a lot of that time, but now, my vision has deteriorated to the point where I need glasses for both near and far correction—I've had progressive lenses for almost a decade now. 1. More precisely, I didn't need glasses in California. In Illinois, I did—I got my first CA driver's license in 1990, replacing an IL driver's license. Then I moved back to IL in 1997, then back to CA in 2004, and back to IL in 2011². All my IL licenses required me to drive with glasses. 2. If the pattern held, I'd have moved back to Los Angeles in 2018, but it appears I'm in Chicago until I retire.