May 13, 2024
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Sure, but why the kriff is Wrecker using binoculars?
Having monocular vision sucks in a lot of ways, but the most annoying by far is not being able to see those 3d paintings. Show me your secrets you ugly squares. Where is the dolphin hiding. WHERE
People really don't talk about what it's like to have no depth perception at all ..
It makes it terrifying to go up and down heights. Not because you have anxiety about the idea. But because you literally visually-spacially cannot see the height.
It made it so it too years for me to go down or up things like escalators and stairs without completely panicking and genuinely not knowing where to step and even falling at times.
It took me years of OT/PT to get where I am at today.
It was seriously hard to do any of that, a lot of things are still hard.
I tend to trip because I often cannot see bumps or drops in inclination.
I am too scared to drive in the fear I will crash, because I often bump into others cause I cannot tell how far away they are just by walking.
I cannot play sports involving balls/things of that nature, because I cannot aim well because of my depth perception defeceit. I used to not even be able to aim at all until I had years of again, occupational therapy.
Many of these things have caused me to be bullied, yelled at and belittled by others and just in general make feel embarrassed or bad about myself
Even when I do my best to acclimate, I still have incidents time to time. There is no cure for this. Only therapy.
Significant visual defceits are disabilities too. It took me years to even be some what functional in the normal world with navigation and coordination.
[TEXT ID: this system has no depth perception]
[IMG ID: a light blue rectangular box with a dark grey outline with an icon of three squares stacked on top of each other, indicating depth to the left, and the text 'this system has no depth perception' to the right.]
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Roy Orbitron, Five-year staring contest champion of Bot High
Seeking a name for a condition!(i guess?)
So i have Amblyopia, a condition where my brain has decided to ignore one eye. In my case, the right eye. A brain can do this for a number of reasons, usually strabismus/lazy-eye, or a drastic difference in the visual acuity of the eyes. It's an attempt by the brain to eliminate double vision by ignoring one of the sets of everything that you're seeing, therefore letting you see just one again.
Mine isn't caused by strabismus or a major difference in acuity between my eyes. Mine is because my eyes - both of them - are twisted in their sockets. In two different direction, to two different degrees. So my brain picked the eye that it deemed "straight" and ignored the other.
I can't find anything on the whole wide world of the Internet about even one other person with this exact problem. They're calling it a birth defect, so i guess it is possible that I'm the only one.
But it wasn't found until i was 18 or 19 years old - the amblyopia OR the twisted eyes - because it's a *birth* defect. Meaning, it's always been this way for me and i don't know anything else. I didn't realize it wasn't normal. It took an eye doctor asking a question with the just the right wording for me to say something to tipped her off to start questioning me a little more pointedly. I've never seen the world the "right" way, my field of vision is incredibly limited, and I've never had depth perception and can't even fathom the concept of it.
Is there *anyone* out there, yourself or someone that you know, with the same problem as me? With one or both eyes being twisted in their sockets?
It's lonely in a way. To know that you have a condition. And what it is. And that so many other people have it. But *still* feel like you're alone with it. Different cause makes Amblyopia behave slightly differently and drastically changes your treatment options. Each different cause for it creates an entirely different experience with it. And i have no one in my life right now that has that same experience. I'd love to talk to someone else with this problem. Or even just know they exist.
Sluggobot knows better than most that it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
Also I'm super proud of myself.
Yesterday I couldn't climb up a waterfall because well things are hard with one eye and no depth perception. Plus I've got no balance and am terrified like unreasonably terrified of heights.
Today I went into a few cave systems, one having over 100 steps down. Without freaking out and without giving up because of not being able to tell how steep the stairs were (it's happened before got frustrated with different sizes of steep stairs and just couldn't handle almost falling) I made it all the way down and back up in the 3 caves I went in even the ones with super uneven ground. And I did it in a dress. Didn't fall once in the caves (just on a flat paved trail 🙃)
May seem little and insignificant but to me its a huge accomplishment because no matter how much I try not to admit it I do struggle with sooo much only having vision in only one eye.