#strabismus

[gayaest]

[ OC ] Jiayi 佳怡 💚⭐️💙She has a TBI with paraplegia and strabismus ♿️✅📒

[trexiva]

I'm never going to shut up about this btw

That eye is almost as obvious as mine and that makes me so fucking emotional. This is their big heroic scene, they've done it and they saved stars and they're both okay. And Ryan's lazy eye is so so noticeable. They did it and he looks like me. He saved TWO worlds and he did it with the same disability that I've been bullied and ostracized relentlessly for.

And THATS why this movie is so special to me. On top of it just generally being a cinematic masterpiece, the main character has my disability. Usually we're portrayed as stupid, as insane, as cooky. But he's the smartest person in the whole fucking universe here.

And THATS why diversity is so fucking important.

[vibragarlic]

can we. can we Please Stop using strabismus as a funny haha joke/as something to be grossed out about. Pretty please everyone

[ID: various screenshots from the wonderfully weird world of gumball. the first has characters with phones in their hands and zombie-like expressions, all with exotropia. the second image shows gumball and darwin dazed from cologne fumes. gumball's left eye notably is exotropic. third image is richard with wall eyed and bloodshot eyes. end ID.]

i've been really excited to watch the new season of gumball but i'm just constantly thrown off by how the artists constantly make fun of strabismus, mostly exotropia (eyes point outward)

i don't get why visible disabilities (or disability in general TBH) are still an acceptable target for jokes in media. real people look like this. why are we making fun of that???

having strabismus doesn't make you silly, disgusting, loopy, or "stupid". it's a real disability and i'm sick of seeing artists using it as a quick and easy visual shorthand :(

strabismus isn't even the only target! someone who has crooked/yellow teeth is untrustworthy. someone who drools is "dumb" and childlike. someone with trouble balancing is drunk/confused/has brain damage. someone who god forbid has facial scars is a villain and wants to kill everyone!!!

all visible differences deserve actual, proper representation. not used to frame us as unintelligent, or make us look scary, or as the ten millionth joke making fun of the way we look. we deserve to be seen as real people. get new material.

[wheelie-sick]

haha guys look how funny the Minecraft movie sheep has exotropia!! this is so goofy and weird!!! why are its eyes like that??? lolololol

[ID: a CGI Minecraft sheep. it has exotropia and is making a funny face]

my eyes are not a joke. my eyes are not "derpy" they aren't funny. real people's eyes look like this. my eyes look like this. it's upsetting to have a movie make a joke out of your eyes and more upsetting to see everyone else not only follow along but amplify it.

yes, the Minecraft movie CGI is unsettling. it is bad but the problem with the sheep is everything except the way its eyes look. real. people. have. eyes. like. that. I cannot emphasize enough that real people have eyes like that. I promise you are capable of criticizing the Minecraft movie's appearance without mocking exotropia.

and if you really want to go above and beyond criticize the Minecraft movie for using exotropia as a joke. call them out for using a disability for laughs. this kind of humor will only continue while people find it funny. make it clear it's not funny.

[neoncityrain]

heads up to my fellas with strabismus, gameoverse's pilot features a VERY blatant stereotype that can upsetting and uncomfortable to watch (AKA, the bumbling-idiot-who-cant-even-read stereotype).

able-bodied people can comment but dont derail, this aint about you or other things you dislike about GLITCH/gameoverse, thank you

[graveyard-cowboy]

Alaskan polycule :3 my partner has Kenai’s lil sister Vena

[this-is-deformimisia]

(this wasn’t like a huge deal but it’s kinda stuck with me)

i have strabismus (intermittent exotropia specifically). i’ve had strabismus since birth. my mom was taking pictures of myself and like other family members. there were a few photos where my eye was drifting very obviously (because i was tired). she looked at the photos and was like “are you making that weird face on purpose?” i wasn’t making a weird face, i was smiling normally. my eyes are just misaligned. and she knows that, i inherited the condition from her (although hers is very mild and mine is much more severe and obvious).

This is deformimisia.

[silyaspider]

Five days after eye muscle surgery (shortening both lateral rectus muscles): my eyes can converge on objects at distances from about 10 cm to infinity, but converging on close objects often causes soreness in my medial rectus muscles (the ones that pull your eyes toward your nose). Before, (after a surgery effectively lengthening the medial rectus muscles, which corrected the misalignment between my eyes about halfway) I could only get them to converge on objects out to maybe 20 cm.

It often takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to far objects, and I can get pretty annoying double vision as that happens. I’m mostly not getting stereopsis (fusion of the images from the two eyes), but occasionally I am. In general there’s less subjective change in vision than I’d expect—it’s often just like the times before when I wasn’t noticing any double vision. And getting rid of the double vision was kind of the point so that’s cool.

I’ll probably add more updates. For context, I was also working on developing stereopsis before this surgery and could grt limited stereopsis at short distances and with peripheral vision when it’s dark and I’m not wearing glasses. Also, I am (was?) an alternating esotrope, meaning my eyes are crossed and I switch between using one or the other (often switching very frequently).

I also have slight issues with vertical misalignment (I’m not sure which word to use there, but left eye pointing a little below the right) and cyclotropia (dotational misalignment). Those issues have always been intermittent, and the vertical misalignmment seems to go away when my eyes are otherwise converging. That means I haven’t been noticing it much in the past few days.