No, you aren’t special, there are lots of us old fa*ts out here.
You must not read the paper or watch the news. There is simply no way very many of us children of the 40’s and 50’s could have survived to adulthood. Too many things were just waiting to kill or maim us, not to mention putting out our eyes.
It still upsets me to see the people wearing eye patches because they poked out an eye in their childhood.