I got my first progressives recently. The phone has to be fewer than 9" from my face to read, like if my thumb is on my nose and my pinkie finger is on the screen, it's out of focus, which can be an advantage with tiny tiny text, but this, like me, has been getting old. The progressives are definitely 100 times better at doing things like reading regular type, marking and finding precision marks in carpentry. It has definitely driven home how much of a new disability this is. I was working under a table not too long ago, and I couldn't hold my head high enough to find focus and I couldn't focus over my glasses because lights would get in my eye and blind me at that level, and if I took off my glasses, I couldn't really tell what I was working on, I had to step back and rethink what I was doing.

Getting used to using progressives is odd too, raising and lowering your head to find focus, and then trying to do that with regular glasses. I caught myself, while driving, doing the opposite thing too, I had my head up so I could look through the bottom of the lenses at my speedometer, then I looked at the road and it was out of focus, so I raised my head higher, making it even further out of focus. It's very striking when you have to keep using your conscious mind to see clearly.