If I have to have reading glasses to see anything closer than about 2', how come when I'm wearing said glasses I can see my eyelashes with razor sharp clarity, reflected perfectly in the lenses? Can't be more than 1/2" away. I'm stumped.
Stumped?? That’s a mighty crass term.
And…
I don’t see what it has to do with your question
Are you Quadriplegic or are fewer of your limbs, as you said, “stumped?”
A lens working as a mirror has the same shape and thus the same diffraction as a lens working as a lens. (Assuming the reflection takes place at the outer surface.)