>>That's farsighted, right?
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>OK, what's farsighted and what's shortsighted?
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>I think I'm farsighted because I can see far - I can read the street name a dozen meters before I have to switch lanes, and I can still read license plates across the street. I'm shortblinded now, though - anything closer than a meter (at lower light - make that about 60cm outside) is blurry.

Short-sight (myopia) is where you CAN read things close up but can't see, say, people in the same room very well.

Far- (or as we say, long-) sightedness (hypermatropis) is where you can see most stuff OK but need glasses for reading.

You've got, by the sounds of it, old-sight (presbyopia) where the iris can't faqccommodate so well anymore, giving symptoms of both.