sknnbones

I was also born with a cataract, but the doctors told my parents to wait till the eye developed before surgery (18 years old)

Queue 18th birthday, scored a 98/99 on the ASVAB, military says to get the eye fixed, and the doctors tell us:

"Oh, they should have removed this at birth, the catarct has caused a blind spot to develop behind it due to lack of stimulation in the eye. Its not correctable"

Needless to say, the "paperwork" proving us right was "lost" when they "transitioned to electronic records"

Did the doctors ever suggest you wait for the surgery?

If they had known it was a blood clot, do you know if would they have done anything differently?

Did your family receive any reparations from this?

For me, I am aware of my "blind spot" but my brain sort of "melds" it together like its not there at all. I cannot "see" a "black spot" in my vision, focusing on letters with that eye causes them to sort of jumble up, my guess is my brain is trying to fill in the gap, but otherwise everything looks normal. Do you experience anything similar? Did the blood clot/surgery damage your vision in a noticeable way?

sounds like ravioli

I’m not huge by any means, but even 6.5in was uncomfortable for my ex. If we were in a position that allowed rather deep access it would push against her cervix which was not fun for her (yeah yeah porn lied, color me shocked, hitting the cervix doesnt feel good for most women)

Despite being smart, I was stupid, this was almost 10 years ago anyway, but I wanted to be a Cavalry Scout in the Army. Since my eye is not correctable and 20/70 vision, they dropped me like a hot coal and stopped returning my calls. My recruiter called about a year later, asking if I was still interested, I told him my eye was still the same, and he said "oh, yeah" and hung up. Haven't heard from them since. I'm not sure if there was more to it, mainly because of the "blind spot" that got tossed around quite a bit, I'm fairly certain 20/70 doesn't disqualify you from the military.

Stop being such a welfare queen and buckle up, bootstraps, etc etc

Other people have it worst than you blah blah blah etc etc etc

if you live in the USA you're in the top 1% of the whole world etc etc etc

I hope I don't need a sarcasm tag here, but this is legit what people have said to me when I've brought up how bad off the low/middle class is.