milkyjoe241

Please say Beyonce AD.

What do you spend your time with in the off season? (and yes I'm asking this question for ideas of what to do, I miss football already)

The first movie I saw with correct vision was Watchmen and was amazed and finally realized what people were talking about when they talked about amazing special effects of a movie. How to train your Dragon must have been great, it's a good movie, must have been good in 3D. I have yet to see a good movie in 3D.

I also remember when I got my vision corrected I started having fun watching Jeopardy because I could finally read the questions. Before I thought everyone was just a better reader than I was or was really smart and could answer the question faster than Trebek could ask them, then I found out that you could actually read the questions on the screen.

Wow that was a fast reply.

My sister and I look very different. We're 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Polish, 1/4 Irish. She looks completely Italian and I look completely Polish. I don't even know if a doctor would recognize us as siblings.

And wow that drastic change to having depth perception must have been crazy. I remember my drastic change in vision, but with mine it just made things clearer. It must have been fun to see the world in a whole new way.

Fellow "Ocular albino" here <- Is that what we call ourselves? I've never met a person with the same condition.

At what age were you identified with ocular albinism? because I have had a weird history with my eyes as well.

When I was born the doctor identified the ocular nerve in my left eye was off 'center', so when I focus on an object my eyes don't equally angle in, but it's skewed to the right. Later I was identified as being color blind (red deficient). So moving on, during my childhood I played baseball and failed, and my parents never could figure why I couldn't hit the ball. In school I had trouble seeing the board, and when the teacher used a red marker I could never see it. Jump to when I was 18, I finally got to a good doctor and he gave me glasses and I was amazed as I could finally see so much more and finally understand things people were talking about. Jump to two year ago, when I was 21 I saw a new eye doctor and he told me I had ocular albinism. He told me all the symptoms and it made so much sense. It was funny the way he told me too, because he sat down in front of me, said "I have some .... news... about your eyes" - he said it rather sadly. Then he told me I had ocular albinism, and I started laughing. I've been pale my whole life so the term albino doesn't effect me much, and my eyes have always been bad, so I have no problem with the condition, I'm just glad I finally know about it.

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