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I had Strabismus correction surgery when I was really young, to fix badly permanently crossed eyes. My vision currently works as you described it: trading dominant eyes, other eye is extra peripheral vision, can voluntarily trade eyes. My eyes look almost normal, but they are never exactly right. People never really notice until I tell them about it. But I have always had trouble looking people right in the eyes, and I've never seen in stereo. Every eye doctor I have seen is pretty amazed when I explain it. They are always surprised I don't have a lazy eye. I honestly didn't know there was more correction that could be done. I'm 31, and really excited to look into this more. Thanks for posting this!

Yeah! I'm definitely going to talk to a doctor at least about it. I am a little nervous about messing with it, since I'd be scared it would make it worse and not better.

I couldn't believe it when I started reading your post. I felt like I could have written it! I have never actually met anyone with a similar vision problem, and even my eye doctors had never seen anyone like me. And I know what you mean about photos. Most of the time I look fine, but occasionally you can really tell something is not right. Also, I tend to get red eye worse than other people in photos. Did you notice that too?