This is quite a broad one I suppose and social standing and the period in history will be the biggest variables. How did or would bad eyesight have affected an otherwise healthy male in a hunter gatherer society vs a 16th century European royal and was there stigma attached in that case to use a couple of examples.
Also what were some early developments optometrist technology? Were any attempts at improving eyesight at a credible?
As someone whose eyesight went from perfect in childhood and most of my teens to becoming quite shortsighted after that, I know I'd have found it pretty difficult!
The Oxford History of Technology ( 1961) has the invention of spectacles with convex lenses quite early, in 1286- but this would work for long-sightedness, be essentially reading glasses. Concave lenses for short-sightedness were harder to make. But though they come finally at the later 15th century, it does not seem as though this defect was much treated. One of the clown scenes in The Merchant of Venice features a mother who's "sand-blind, nay, high-gravel blind" and can't recognize her son is playing tricks on her. Samuel Johnson notoriously had very short-sight from an early age, and simply lived with it. He could not recognize friends from a distance, read books crammed into his face.