What is LAZY EYE (Amblyopia) and What Causes It 

Eye Health QOTD: Do you have a lazy eye? What is your experience with it? Did you have it treated at all?

my left eye is lazy and that is why i cant look at people for more than a second or else they would know, this has made me so insecure and always loose my self confidence

i have lazy eye too and it really bothered me when i get to see my eyes in a picture.

My right eye is lazy . I wish I would have kept doing my eye patch treatment when I was a child , unfortunately I quit because of bullies . This video was very helpful :)

My daughter has lazy eye and had to wear eye patches. I told her that if people asked her to say "I'm a pirate. ARGHHH!!".

I just looked in the mirror and realized how much sleepier my eye has gotten since In last looked at it. Thanks for explaining th his to me

I was bullied because of lazy eyes 😞 but now Im proud of it and doing some vlog on youtube and my eyes dont really matter at All 😊

My son (age 4) was just diagnosed with lazy eye. And As a terrified/protective mom.. I’m here learning everything I can. Thank you breaking it down for a easy understanding. 🍃💚🍃

I can’t sleep at night sometimes when I think about it. It really hurts me when my confidence drop to the floor just like my heart. I can’t make an eyes connect or talk to any girl with eye contact, I don’t wanna live this life nomore.

Good point. I just had my surgery. I waited this long to finally get my condition corrected. It was definitely a confidence killer. Everything you said compare to everything I studied matched. Thank you!

I have it, I thought I'll get lasik done, bummer

I think I’ve recently developed a lazy eye. As soon as I zone out, which I do often, I immediately hold that position and take a picture of myself. It’s awful and I hate it

Although I do not have a lazy eye, i never used to know I had bad vision when I was a kid. My eye exam in the 3rd grade got interrupted by a phone call early on, and after the school nurse was done with the phone call, she dismissed me and my poor vision to live out ANOTHER 2 years of poor grades. When I did finally get glasses (in the fifth grade) i just could not get over the individual leaves on the trees and my teacher's face (i sat in the back of the classroom). Thank goodness my poor eyesight was brought to light - i thought i was stupid - bit i was just very nearsighted!

I haded a lazy eye since I was 7 years old , and my doctor gave me eye glasses, but nothing really happens, my eye just kept on losing itself and then now 10 years after my other eye also became a lazy one , and so far , I think I'm gonna become blind 😥

Thank you once again. This time you have covered my granddaughter. Erica had a turned eye that over years of wearing a patch, being bullied by other children was operated on. Sadly her brain had already turned the vision of that eye off. She is 18 now with an A average in her final year at school. She is amazing good at art, & was surprised when she said she sees things in 2D, not 3D. I don't really understand. She has to take a picture of the thing she wants to draw before she can draw it. Yet the result looks life like.

I was diagnosed with amblyopia when I was about 10 years old, and of course by that point, it was pretty much too late to do anything about it. I did the eye patch thing for awhile, I had glasses that actually made my dominant eye worse (HATED that) and nothing really helped. My amblyopia was caused by convergent strabismus, but the misalignment was so subtle that it went undiagnosed for many years.To this day, my weaker eye is unable to read text unless it is enormous, but overall the vision in that eye is halfway decent.

I wish my professors in med school made this topic as interesting as you. Very informative. Considering the amount of misinformation and ignorance that exists it's amazing to have experts break it down and simplify. Looking forward to all your videos.

I have it, it's not too noticeable at all, in fact I'm 19 and I found out I have lazy eyes this same year, my eyes just don't move at the same time or rest in the same position, in pictures I notice people's eyes line with each other but mine just decide not to lol

I have it and I have 20/20 - unfortunately, it’s one of my biggest physical insecurities. After fully recovering from bilateral uveitis, I’ve embrace it. I’m always going to look as if I’m sleepy, winking, or flirting with others and that can be a cute conversation starter 😍

My left eye is my lazy eye and turns inwards! I am very fortunate to have been treated when I was young and wore glasses to correct my vision - though I received some teasing and kids that were at my age being a bit frightened of me, it’s definitely no where near that bad as to what many others have experienced. Loved this video tons! I wanted to learn how it really works and I was not disappointed:)

According to my eye doctor I have a lazy eye but from the way you explained it it really doesn't seem like I do

I just learned that I had lazy eye at my eye appt yesterday. I always knew something was weird even as a kid but my parents never got my eyes checked. I'm glad to at least finally have a name to it!

One of my adult nieces was born with amblyopia of her right eye. My sister and brother in-law did get her help with an excellent pediatric eye specialist early on. Everything was tried, including surgery (about eighteen years ago) , and she did have temporary correction in her affected eye, but sadly the amblyopia returned. She was too afraid to try any other treatments after the surgery failed. She does have some deficit with her depth perception, but otherwise leads a totally normal life.

I was diagnosed amblyopic in my childhood.I was told to patch up my healthy eye.I used to feel bad and lost my confidence while wearing a patch.Im 26 years old still amblyopic

I have lazy eye in my left I’ve had it my whole life I went to the opticians today and they said it’s up to me if I have glasses bcs my eye will never get better. They say I could get loads of headaches when I’m older 😩

I used to see double when I was a little kid. I always thought it was super cool. That is probably why I have a lay eye that drifts really badly when I look up

I have a lazy eye all my life I don’t care what people think.Nobody perfect I’m a confident person that’s dose not bother me

I was told I had a lazy eye by my optometrist when I was a kid. I saw him 11 times over the course of 17 years. I complained of blurred and double vision, and he told me there is nothing he can do and prescribed me the same glasses. I went to a different optometrist when I was 20 years old. Turns out I never had a lazy eye, I had accommadative esotropia with a very high ac/a ratio. I needed bifocals and / or surgery; medial rectus recession I can pick between blurred and double vision. My vision picks blurry mostly, i have difficulty holding double vision for clarity unless i close one eye. He told me the reason my vision was blurred was because my eyes weren't working together because my left eye was "lazy." I can't think of anything that has affected my life more than this. The plus side is I am finally getting surgery, and i have 20/20 vision in both my eyes, I probably prevented any amblyopia because I patched my dominant eye for thousands of hours as a kid in hopes of fixing it. Looking through my records, I never once had amblyopia. My ability to blur out (not accommadate) my vision made him miss it during the prism bar test. The times I did accommodate he called it a "occassion esotropic flick" or "dip" Just because someone has "doctor" in front of their name doesn't mean they know what they are talking about or care to help you. When I told my ophthalmologist what happened, she was not surprised at all. Makes you think how often things like this happen

I love watching your channel especially when you make videos about diseases!!

I have struggled with lazy eye since I was 2. I am 17 now and I feel like I want to give up because treatment is probably not going to help, I wish I had treatment when I was younger

In my 50's and this is the first time I received a complete explanation for my lazy eye. Thanks.

My right eye sees things sharper than my left. Just like a higher resolution camera.

I can see very well in both of my eyes, but i've noticed that color contrast in my left eye is slightly better than in my right eye. And also upper eyelid of the right eye is really droopy and it makes me insecure. Even though it is the dominant eye, i've checked

I get the fear of having a lazy eye, as I've had one my whole life, and have been bullied for it, but I don't get being proud of it. I personally see no benefit to having one, both from a visual and a pragmatic standpoint. It's a hinderence, but I've gotten used to having it, and instead of being proud, I am more so just comfortable with having it, and people knowing I have it.

i have amblyopia in my right eye ☹️

I was diagnosed with lazy eye at the age of 12. I thought my glasses corrected the problem. My right eye was 20/2400. So very bad. Now I am in my 50's and started having vision that would change and would not snap back for days at a time. Sometimes so bad I didn't think I should drive, so I didn't. Finally went to an ophthalmologist and he explained this lazy eye thing to me. My good eye has been doing all the work all these years and now that I am older my brain cannot correct for it as much. Plus I have very dry eyes from over using my good eye. Hopefully the steroid eye drops will help, better already. Still mad at my mother for not taking me to an eye Dr. before I was 12.

I am 14 and I am still working to perfect my left eye vision with patching and eye exercises and I believe I can get 20/20 vision. Do you know any other methods that will also help with lazy eye to help speed up the process or improve on the eye to help make it stronger?

Hey! Thanks for the video. I'm from Brazil and I found out my 'lazy eye' condition when I was 8 (I'm 25 now). I wore a patch for about 3 years, was bullied a lot in school for that and unfortunately the results were almost nothing. I still hope to see better someday. In addition, I have a question: is there any obstacle for people with this condition from driving? Thank you!

So sorry for everyone here with this current condition you never know what life is like for people with this issue I pray everyone lives the best of their life’s

I’ve been complaining recently about blurred vision and intermittent focusing on my left eye which is my better eye. Eye exam turned out normal. But the optometrist assistant noticed I have mild lazy eye. They never really mentioned anything about treatment and still say they don’t know why I’m having vision issues even with glasses. But this video made everything clicked. Thanks to you, I can bring this up to my ophthalmologist. I’m surprised it was never mentioned. And now it makes sense why some people would tell me sometimes they see my eyes crossing, I thought they were just talking about my heterochromia so I shrugged it off.

My eye I hate it , it always goes off to the side and everyone makes fun of me 😭

I had it when I was a kid and had to patch up

I was born with retinopathy of prematurity. I have a scleral buckle in my left eye, and my right is lazy. I didn't know the condition is neurological. I've actually learned more on this channel about my eyes than any appointments I've been to. Lately though, my vision has darkened quite a bit. Doc says nothing's wrong; I may get a second opinion.

In my whole life I'm not happy because of humiliation of lazy eye If you talk with people you hear someone says are you talking with me or I don't know my eye focus wrong

4:55 ‘how often do you see a kid walking around tearing their vision between their right and left eyes? It just doesn’t happen’ I actually used to do this all the time as a kid as well as trying to double my vision, holding a finger out and having it double in one direction and then trying to make it double in the opposite direction. Now that I think about it I used to do that kind of thing all the time. I was a weird kid though. Maybe I should have become an optician! Always had 20:20 vision so it wasn’t anything related to poor eyesight, I was just fascinated by the fact that I could change the appearance of my outward seemingly fixed reality almost like taking an hallucinogen(although I wouldn’t have put it that way as a child).

I had an eye infection last year and I got treatment for it with some kind of medicine. But now I have constantly blurry vision in one eye and it drives me nuts. If I dry out the eye to air it gets better, if I sleep too long it gets worse all day but if I wake up too early it's almost perfect but then gets worse over the day. I feel less in it, I see better without it, it sticks out at everything I look at and it produces less tears now so when I went to the eye specialists they told me this along with some reflective error something wrong in the eye. All she said was some eye drops. I was there once before and he only said it's mostly my swollen eyelid doing it. It wasn't. And nobody mention anything of any treatments or anything. All they ever ask is if i've ever had glasses or lenses and that's it. All she could do for me this time was pull out three annoying eyelashes that pointed inwards at my eye and it stung me several times.

I have strabismus with amblyopia in my left eye. Hereditary. I hated patching as a child. As I aged my left eye traveled further out. I had successful eye muscle surgery in my 30s. Doc said I would get a good ten years with it straight. I’m at about 14 years and things are still good. I do get double vision slightly when I am very fatigued. I also attempted prisms previously without success. Surgery was one of the best things I did.

Have lazy eye. I’m 30yrs old. I’m in front of a computer as a network administrator for 8* hours. My left eye is 20/400 while my other eye is 20/20 with glasses. If I lose my good eye, I’m blind for life...

I have a lazy eye on my right, it usually has a different eye lid and shows, sometimes I can feel it even without touching it :(

It annoys me whenever I get an eyeglass, and I'm seeing 100% with my right eye and only 50% with my left eye. I have astigmatism in both eyes but only my left eye has nearsightedness. Edited on 13 September 2020 : first of all I am sorry for not replying. When I commented I didn't get my eyeglasses yet, I got my eyeglass back in January 2020 and its prescription. From the prescription I can tell that my eyesight doesn't improve by wearing an eyeglasses, as my left eye is still stuck at 6/12 even with an eyeglasses. But my right eye did improve to 6/9 with an eyeglasses (6/12 without eyeglasses).

Dr. Allen is right about small children not thinking much about the symptom of lazy-eye. Like myself, I have lazy-eye, but never had any reference to what normal vision was as a small child. Born that way I guess? Now, at 65, I still couldn't imagine what it's like to see with both eyes "at the same time", even though I have glasses to correct vision in my good, and bad eye. The bad eye is about 20/30 vision, but my brain will not use it unless I cover up my good eye to force it to work. Think my brain says "use this eye, or the other, but not both". Sometimes I do cover up my good eye when it gets tired, esp. when reading.

Yes I do have Lazy eye, and it’s killing me. It’s embarrassing when I’m speaking to someone and they ask me if I’m talking to them. I e been living with this almost all my life and I’m 57 Uck I need help. Thank you for this video Dr.

Excellent explanation...... Thank you

What Eye drop you recommend for bloodshot eyes? My eyes veins are so red and dry. I have 20/20 vision. Thank you

I can’t even pursue my dream of becoming a commercial pilot because my left eye is lazy.

I found out I had amblyopia at the age of 6 when an eye care professional came to my school for a general eye examination. I was diagnosed with only 5% vision in my right eye. I never said anything until then because I thought everyone had an eye with better vision than the other. Somehow it made sense until the eye examination results got notified to my parents and we started treatment, which included patching and eye therapy. It lasted 2-4 years and I had already 60% vision in my lazy eye. Eventually I stopped treatment because of low self-esteem and bullies in school. I am now 21 years old, and I know my right eye has already lost some sort of vision, but still hoping my sight doesn't get any worse. I do believe people should be better informed about the consequences of amplyopia and understand that the kids itself might not have a clue on what's really going on with their health, and later it might be already too late for a lazy eye to be treated.

I feel seen. Thank you 😂 btw you’re gorgeous 😻

I have amblyopia and I’m wearing a eye patch right now

I have a bad astigmatism in both eyes, far worse in my left eye. My left eye also has a drift and often sees double. Now when both eyes are open I simply don't see out of my left eye. If I close my right eye I can see out of my left eye but extreamly blurry and double even with strong corrective limbs. My eye doctor has basically said my left eye is functionally blind.

I have lazy eye in my left eye, it was only discovered in a pre-primary school eye exam that I could only see blurred/colored shapes with my left eye. Now the bad part is that they didn't exactly explain to my parents what lazy eye is, so we only new that my left eye is very bad, and the right is also not very good. I needed glasses with +5 dioptries for my left, and +3 for my right eye. They both improved by bounds with a lot of eye excercises and patching my better eye to force the left to work harder. Fast forward to 25 year old me, deciding to try my luck with a laser eye correction surgery. The clinic is a very fancy well respected place. The process started with a very thorough examination, supposedly to access if I can safely take part in the surgery, and also to assess what could be the end result they can achieve. The doctor said that it's possible to do the surgery on both my eyes, but she would only recommend it for the left one, which was on +3 dioptries at the moment (the right one was +1.5). I thought it trough, asked for the opinion of my loved ones, and finally decided to go through with the surgery for my left eye. They informed me that after the surgery my vision could be slightly blurry, but it would stabilize in at most 6 months. Everything was all well and happy, I put down my glasses as I didn't really need them anymore, but as time went by, I noticed that I got headaches more and more fequently during work in the office. When it was time for the control examination 6 month after the surgery, I was, once more, using my glasses so that my head doesn't hurt, and my left eye vision was almost as bad as before. I told all of this to the same doctor who initially did the examination, the assessment, and performed the surgery. And what did she say? "Well, technically we were able to reduce it to almost 0 dioptries. And we always new that we couldn't make it perfect." Turns out that the six month "stabilization period" was the time it took for my brain to correct my vision back to it's own "normal". I now know that the laser surgery couldn't have possibly corrected an issue that is in my brain instead of the eye itself, but that one doctor could have had the decency to tell me the truth instead of ripping me off with a surgery that didn't effectively change anything. Oh, wait. I did gain a completely invisible eye incision that could possibly open up if I got hit on the head (so no martial arts for me ever, even if I wanted to try it someday), and now a new pair of glasses costs slightly less because of the thinner glass lense. Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much for the info.. Im having a hard time with my eyes ever since when i was a kid, and im having a hard time explaining my self whenever i have eye check up, until there is one ophthalmologist said that i have lazy eye,. Now i have idea with amblyopia, I will try to do further study with this to also understand my condition, 😊

My left eye is absolutely horrible. It’s always been WAY worse than my other eye. So much so you can tell through my glasses lenses, my right eyes lens is not to thick while my left eyes is! My parents have even thinned out the glass 🫠 But both of my eyes have really bad lazy eye. And I was wondering how I could fix it quickly so I won’t be made fun of anymore?

I've known a few people, which has led to a growing curiosity in the back of my mind over the years as to what exactly the condition is. Nowadays I've had someone with a lazy eye marry into my family, and a few people i regularly watch on RU-vid also have one, so the topic has been fresh on my mind again, and just now i finally remembered to look it up. Thanks for this simple and concise lecture!

I have amblyopia in my right eye!! This video illustrates the experience really well. I was diagnosed at 6 years old, so we did some patching but it was a little too late to make much of a difference. As a 25 year old adult, I wear glasses but still notice a huge difference between my vision in each eye. I’ve never had great depth perception and wasn’t able to play most sports involving catching or throwing a ball growing up. I’ve also been known to break and drop a lot of things because of my lack of depth perception. Other than that, I’ve lived a fairly normal life. Overall I see the condition as more of a minor annoyance than anything else. I’ve never really felt like I’m missing out on much, it’s just a silly thing that contributes to me being me 😊

Im sad im 16 years old and i wanna fix my lazy eye

I had this for many years I noticed it when I was 16. When looking in the mirror my right eye was slightly off and even looking at someone else in the eyes seemed a bit different, like it was off centered. The cure to this is staying very hydrated, once I started to intake alot of fluids my right eye when back to normal and now I could look at someone right into the eyes and everything is perfect. I don't know why it took me 20 years to figure this out.

I have untreated Strabismic amblyopia in my left eye and then later developed Myopia in my “good eye” I didn’t actually know I had a lazy eye until I was 17, and the only reason I found out was because I went to get my eyes tested because my “good eye” was developing the short sightedness. My eye turns in ever so slightly, more so when I try and focus on something so it was not super obvious. I was sent to the hospital for testing because they where worried it was something like a tumour! The vision in the amblyopic eye is very poor. I was so use to having a lazy eye I didn’t know any better so I didn’t know anything was wrong, that was my normal. Over time my myopia has gotten worse and is at a -3.25 but is currently stable at that, but I still can see so for that I’m thankful, I just have to be careful and protect my “good eye” from injury so no sports etc for me unfortunately. It just makes some things a lot harder like parking my car and other things that require your eyes to work together, like depth perception, night vision etc. I never knew how much having this condition actually effects so much of my life like ability to participate in sports, job perspectives etc

I have lazy eye in my right eye. Had to wear an eye patch. Cried all day because I couldn’t see and watch spongebob or do anything really. Broke my parents heart

I am having lazy eye and i am about to 15 aged but i don't have any causes so plzz tell me does i will have symptoms in future and plz tell how to fix it

Your point about children not realizing their vision is impaired really resonated with me. In 4elementary school I struggled academically and have a faint memory of not being able to see the board clearly, so I turned my attention to drawing instead, which didn't sit well with my teachers. It wasn't until I got glasses at the age of 12 that I experienced a revelation. I was amazed to see that trees weren't just green blobs but consisted of individual leaves.

Having a lazy eye on my right eye and low vision is very hard.

Hello doctor .. Thank you for the informations and explanations on Lazy Eye. Is there any possibility to develop Lazy Eye at the age of 40 years?

Is there any way to fix it ?? I am at age 16?

I'm 73 and had laze eye. I had a patch over my good eye as about 2 years old. Had buring eye drops on my eye or eyes. Don't remember. I do remember the burning eye drops.

I'm going 50 next month and have lazy eye in my left but seems getting hardworking now watching your video!!! It's very informative and love watching your eyes showing the signs about it. Great jjob Doc

I dont have amblyopia before but now my left eye started to cross a bit inward to.my mose.. is there a way my left eye be corrected..

Dr. Allen, pardon my ignorance with this question but can you develop this later in your adult life?

Right eye veers out/ constant double vision, had 2 surgeries later in life and I'm 53 y/o still dealing with constant dv.

When I was 8, I told my parents that I can't see clearly and they got me checked. The doctor confirmed that I was diagnosed with lazy eye. Now, I'm 21 and and still can feel my left eye moving by itself. When I ask my parents and friends "Did my left eye moves if I focusing at something?" they said "no, your eyes were just doing fine". Well mine look normal but at some point I can feel my left eye started to blurry and moving in but not so obvious. But of course I feel uncomfortable. And now my eyeglass power is -5.75.

Which eye do you focus on, the one looking straight ahead?

Hey there doc Not related to the video, I just have a small dellema. I have a really bad sensitivity to light (my eyes don't dilate) and I was wondering if you had a video or know something that explains this, It's very irritating and I don't know what to do to help it. Any help is very much appreciated, thank you.

I have amblyopia and a divergent squint since I was a child. Whenever I take pictures of myself and I see my eye, or when I look at someone and they turn around because they think I'm looking at someone else, it breaks my heart. I feel like I can never look anyone in the eye or have a proper connection with people. It also really hurts to see lazy eyes being made fun of in media, and being associated with being stupid. I really hope there can be more awareness about the issue so that people can be more understanding.

30 years having lazy eye

Hi, can you please make a video on nystagmus too? :-) I have amblyopia due to strong nystagmus in one of my eyes and less strong in the other... So the eye that technically sees better with no correction got rejected by my brain and I developed better acuity (with correction) in the other eye even though it s actually "the worse eye". Now I m 33 and the rejected eye is getting better by excercise. They ll never be able to work together but I can switch between them now which is a great result to me :-)

Hey doc, I’m currently in school for biology hoping to go to school for optometry at Pennsylvania college of optometry. I know you have a lot on your plate with all of the video recommendations you have, but it would be such a help if you could eventually post a video about how your college experience was and maybe some recommendations!

I had cataract in my left eye in newbie itself so doctors removed cataract at the age of 1.5 years old and provided eye glass and patching cloth but it doesn't work out and i having the squint eye problem, where my right eye is perfectly fine and left eye vision is like blurry and dim dark background and after years of going to the hospital doctors told me that i have lazy eye where the left eye nerve to the brain is not developed, On that I came home and really cried, doctors says to me to take care my right eye carefully. By the way I'm 19 years old . So plz anyone give me a solution to correct my lazy eye in left side of my eye. THANKS FOR READING ❤

I have a left lazy eye. I did close my right eye as a treatment when I was a kid and my vision became 9/6 but I stopped when I became 7 years old and its worst 36/6 now at 32 years old

Solution: wear Ray Bans

I have a left lazy eye. I could see clearly but its more like a watching in my left eye with the window glass with reflections. It's kinda sad when my eye doctor said it cannot be fix anymore.

They tried to correct it when I was very small child. It worked pretty well and my lazy eye wasn’t that noticeable but now in high school it’s basically back and stuff.

I kept telling my parents when I was a child that my other eye is just so blurry than my other but they won't listen. Right now, at the age of 18, I always have headaches on that part of the head where my eye is (migraine I think, but it always start there), and I only just had glasses for it. I have 20/20 on my left eye, and a high one on the other.

I grew up with lazy eye. No one thought to check to see if I had astigmatism. I am now 44 years old. I went to the optometrist and they say my astigmatism is severe but correctable with lenses. I am excited. I should receive my new glasses in a week.

You didn’t talk at all about the possible solutions as an adult. Apparently the uc Irvine optomology department has possible fixes including playing on a video game that has red and blue color schemes. Unfortunately if you try to fix the lazy eye then it could backfire and you could become cross eyed forever. Also since you mentioned it is a neurological disorder then what are the long term side effects for people who have amblyopia? I always feel like a freak because I can’t see out of my right eye.

As a 13 year old with a lazy eye it has made me feel less confident and I believe it developed around when I was a almost a toddler. I think of asking my parents if I can get it treated soon

My lazy, right eye is quite annoying. Refocusing after awhile sucks! Great video!

I am very farsighted and have been since a very young age. I've also been told I have cross eyes and lazy eye. I think my vision in each eye is independent from the other eye, meaning I see the right side with my right eye, then the left side with my left eye. My reasons for believing that are a few. There seems to be a 'shift' in my eyes when looking to the left then scanning to the right. Eye Doctors seemed to be facinated with watching my eyes when they told me to focus on their finger while they moved it side to side (it sometimes seemed like they did it endlessly). When in a college biology lab everyone got an amoeba on their slide. The instructor would point out the amoeba to me & I could see, then I blinked and looked again in the same location and couldn't see it. I had to ask the instructor at least a few times where it was. She seemed to find me bit annoying. Finally, when in my 20s (decades ago) I went to a new clinic/doctor for an eye exam. He was perplexed with my refractory testing and asked if I had my glasses with me (I was wearing contacts), so he waited for me to get them out of my car. He figured out my prescription from my glasses and then seemed to understand what was going on with my vision, but he never explained what the issue was. Also I could never 'get it' form pictures that had hidden forms within them. No matter how long I looked, I never saw the second image. I told someone that and watched her roll her eyes. Am I crazy?

I have had lazy eye since as far back as I can remember. I remember as a little girl my option told my parent to put a giant sticky plaster over the lense that was my good eye, as you can imagine I had a lot of issues. I hated my glasses so much as a kid I used to shove them down the sides of the sofa, or accidentally on purpose sit on them and break them. Now approaching 50 I am becoming more reliant on them now. I am lucky to be blessed with a fantastic optician that is incredibly helpful, and a wonderfully charming and funny bedside manner.

People would think that I'd be squinting or my eyes are shut and I always force my eyes to be wide open

I had glasses from 4 years old due to a very pronounced right lazy eye. I was bullied a lot at school and became very insecure about it so about 10 years ago i had both my eye lenses replaced and laser surgery and have had nearly perfect vision ever since. Best thing I ever did!! Changed my life. I am in my 60’s.

This is so interesting i allways figured it was thought it was an issue with the muscles around the eye