My vision os -5.00 on each eye Am i legally blind?!


Question: My vision os -5.00 on each eye Am i legally blind?
without glasses everythings blurryy, am i legally blind?

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no, your legally HALF blind. I have the same prescription -5.00 and doc said, " Sorry, but you're vision is horrible; you're legally half blind."

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No, you are not legally blind. The definition of legally blind is being 20/200 or worse WITH GLASSES OR CONTACTS, or having less than 20 degrees of vision (you normally have 180 degrees of vision).

Without your glasses/contacts, you meet the requirement of worse than 20/200, but since you are correctable to better than 20/200, then you aren't legally blind.

4th year optometry student, 7 months until graduation!!



If your visual acuity is 20/200 or worse with eyeglasses and/or contacts in both eyes you could be considered legally. If your vision is correctable, then you are not legally blind. There is also a field of vision definition for legally blind as well, but I am not sure exactly what it is.



No you aren't. Your eyesight is better than mine and its fully correctable with glasses or contacts. Yes you need to wear them most of the time to see accurately but you're not even into the severely short sighted bit yet.




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