Lazy eye - anyone else

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Further to mention viewtopic.php?t=375816 of eye going inward . My father has a lazy eye. It's never been picked up on with me before. Today was the first time it was mentioned.

Being me I naturally went searching and found this- https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/clini ... in-autism/

Interesting; this one describes my eyesight well, though I had never heard it called that before, nor knew that it was a distinct condition.

Although I wore glasses since childhood, I'm not sure that they were particularly effective - even with them on, my brain seems to ignore most of what my left eye sees, and my right eye vision is good enough to manage without them except for detailed tasks like reading. I've also long known that my stereo vision isn't too good (I've wondered whether it plays a part in the visual agnosia I experience sometimes when I'm in a dissociative state.)

Don't have it, but have heard of it

I used to see TV commercials (or public service announcements, or whatever they were) about a thing called "ambli-opleah" when I was a teen back in circa 1970, demonstrating how the world looks to someone with a "lazy eye". The TV spots showed one of those eye test sheets on the wall with the letters. And how one eye messes it up on one side of the scene while the other eye does fine with the other side of the scene.

Though I have to admit that its been a LONG time since I saw those TV spots, and that this thread is probably the first time in half of a century that I have heard about the condition again. So I guess that it is easy for a person to not know about something that is that rarely mentioned.

I just knew my father had a lazy eye. If I'd ever come across the medical term for it before I'd long forgotten it.

Not sure that it really counts as a "lazy eye," but I have congenital Brown syndrome.

I have a lazy right eye and diminished vision in it.

I've had a lazy left eye since I had operations as a young child. It's long-sighted whereas my right eye is stronger yet short-sighted. I have no stereo vision meaning I can't see in 3D. Everything is flat. I drive but I must be extra careful. When I worked driving forklifts, I used to use shadow cues to help me pick up and put down objects.

I used to get teased terribly in school for my lazy eye. Some kids would even question whether or not I had a false eye.

It's still pretty bad but I wear glasses with prismatic lenses and they help a little.

Now I'm wondering whether the comment was just something thrown in to see how I responded rather than true. The reason? How come it's taken till I'm 62 for someone to mention such a thing?

My daughter has it. The doctor didn't catch it, school screening did. At that point she was going blind in that eye because her brain stopped using it. It has been a long and frustrating process, but with patching and very crazy prescription glasses, she is using that eye again. Ophthalmologist said if it was caught any later than early childhood, brain processing would be fixed and she would have been blind in that eye.

Watching her has made me wonder if vision problems are a source of my processing issues. I just had two equal eyes with poor vision, but I didn't get eyes checked or glasses until about 10 years old. I am overstimulated by sounds, can only learn by reading, and can't learn at all visually. Seems like a connection to me, but I'm not a doctor.

I have it in my left eye, and as a child, the ways to deal with it was to wear glasses and the occasional patching which at the time made me a target for bullying. From about junior high until my mid 20's, I didn't need glasses anymore as the lazy eye thing was only noticeable when I'm tired. In my mid 20's, I got glasses because I need them for distance, and still do as my driver's license has that restriction on it. That's something everyone else in my family has, as pretty much everyone else has needed glasses or contacts as an adult.