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Ava's avatar

A member of my tribe! I wore an eye patch too; it was so annoying that I eventually put it in the toaster (I'll never forget that smell!). The first time I got a driver's license I had a note from the eye doctor explaining why I couldn't pass the binocular vision test. Now I just cheat and look with first one eye, then the other. Yeah, you do adapt to it, but I feel like I'm really missing out on the full experience of reality.

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Caroline Criado Perez's avatar

I also only see out of one eye at a time! And had a patch as a child and can’t see those magic pictures. My brother, who has the same thing, once found an article about a woman who had it too but had some kind of corrective surgery that wasn’t available when we were growing up and she said the world looked so beautiful compared to what she had seen previously. I think about that a lot

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Caroline Criado Perez's avatar

OTOH the one time my husband took me to shoot a rifle at a target I was much better at it than him which I put down to always focusing out of only one eye so swings and roundabouts I guess…

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Ava's avatar

Ooh, thanks for teaching me a new idiom!

I had surgery on my eye muscles when I was about 30, but it was purely cosmetic: I was tired of people thinking I wasn't looking at them. It didn't last though. Pretty soon the right eye was drifting outward again. Then about 25 years later I tried doing eye exercises, which didn't give me 3d vision but did (I think) give me occasional double vision.

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Caroline Criado Perez's avatar

Argh feel you there on the people thinking you’re not looking at them! I had 5 ops when I was a kid to correct it and it’s def better than it was but I still have times where people ask me if there’s something wrong with their hair 😬 I worry about all the people who don’t say anything and just quietly think I’m judgy and rude!

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Ava's avatar

When I used to interview unsuccessfully for jobs, I would rationalize that the interviewers must have thought I wasn't making eye contact.

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Caroline Criado Perez's avatar

Oh to clarify on the ops, mine was also on y eye muscles. But it didn’t fix the binocular vision thing - I think this woman had some kind of laser maybe?? Not sure. But in any case she suddenly saw in 3D using both eyes at once

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nigel miller's avatar

I have a theory that if you are blinded with a bright light, you can switch eyes and see normally!

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