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.
