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When independence and safety become impossible to balance

My night vision is getting worse and I'm terrified of driving in the dark, but I live in a small town where not driving means total isolation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Some life circumstances force us to choose between physical risk and social death, revealing how much of our autonomy depends on capabilities we took for granted.

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