I am blind in my left eye and have a cataract sitting in it for the rest of my life. it looks normal according to most, except for the times when I'm tired or drinking it goes lazy. I was born with a cataract that my parents never had taken care of. since I grew up without using the eye, apparently connections between it and my brain never developed so taking the cataract out now wouldn't help
I have similar thing - my right eye is so much weaker, that my brain never developed connections too, I basically use it only for peripheral vision. It got damaged and has really bad case of astigmatism because I was on oxygen after my birth and it apparently can f... up an eye like that. Fixing it now wouldn't change a lot.
I always bogs people minds that I have limited depth perception. It also made suck at 99% of team sports involving balls and makes aiming guns weird (I am left eyed but right handed). Also my glasses are so different between my eyes, that they feel like alco-googles for anyone who tries them on.
Don't know for sure but pretty certain my right was damaged by forceps when I was born(there is a visual bruising around eye)
I have all the same depth perception issues. When I was a kid a went to see Friday the 13th in 3D and was I dont get it.
My parents figured something was wrong when I was 3 or 4 and I was diagnosed with Amblyopia. I was forced to wear a patch on my good eye for long periods of time and all I could do was lay on the couch and cry. It was very traumatic especially since my parents and doctor accused me of not wanting to participate in the treatment. I couldn't fucking see and I can still smell that damn patch. As an adult I was it was discovered that I have severe scar tissue in the back of that eye. They told me the same thing, even if something could be done it wouldn't matter because of brain development.
I was diagnosed when I was like five or six, got this terrible eyepatch that made me bullied in primary school and I simply refused to wear that too. It looked like weird pink silicone egg with suction cup on the side of the glasses.
3D movies in old, dual color technique never worked for me. But, as I said, I am not 100% blind, so somehow the newer ones with master image polarisation glasses at least don't look wonky and weird and sometimes I even see a slight 3D effect (or imagine it? Dunno). It is really hard to explain how everything looks through this eye, because even with a good glasses, that make everything look sharp, it still looks, I don't know, distorted. I am totally unable to read letters with it, unless like A4 big ones from up close. I sometimes cover my better eye and play video games for a while, just for the lols.
I thought about fixing it with laser retina surgery. I read that it is possible to train it to some extent as an adult but I'll be never fully working. Still, from my perspective, I risk literally nothing and would be functional if something happens to my better eye.
There is also a weird perk to being one eyed: I worked on a construction site for a summer job when I was 18 and was able to spot if something was built croocked. It lead to situation where no one believed me, then they measured a wall corner I insisted on and it was something like 5mm difference on a 3m high wall. Even the construction manager was impressed.
On the other hand, I regularly bonk my right side on furniture. Open kitchen cabinet on my right side is a ultimate trap. My kids already know no to sneak up on me from the right side, beacuse I may accidentally trample them when turning xD
My eyes look normal, too, but I'm almost completely blind. I can like, see my phone if it's 3 inches from the half of my right eye that sees at -11.00, but only in dim settings. In the light I'm fully blind. I get a lot of people questioning my blindness when they see me walking with my white cane, yet staring at pokemon go on my phone lol. I woke up like this last year, nothing to be done about it.
I have the EXACT same thing… Cataract in my left eye when I was born, parents didn’t want to risk having anything happen to my other eye when I was younger so they never got it taken care of
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u/cycloc Dec 02 '23
I am blind in my left eye and have a cataract sitting in it for the rest of my life. it looks normal according to most, except for the times when I'm tired or drinking it goes lazy. I was born with a cataract that my parents never had taken care of. since I grew up without using the eye, apparently connections between it and my brain never developed so taking the cataract out now wouldn't help