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Thank you! Well I was playing around with my neighbors and we were throwing stuffed animals at each other and I guess it got my eye. After I went upstairs and sat down all of a sudden everything just went dark. I couldn't see. And I started freaking out. When my parents took my to the doctor, I don't know the formal term but I guess there was blood in my eye that they had to go in and remove through surgery. But I got to stay home from school for like a month.

There is a strabismus surgery to realign it to match the other. I'm kind of annoyed with my parents for not doing anything growing up. I kind of just had to suffer with the way it is.
I think they figured because I've never had sight in that eye and they can't restore the sight, there's nothing to be done.

I'm looking into getting a prosthetic shell to put over the eye. I didn't even know this existed until a year ago. And I could have had one since I was a kid!

But when I went to get it fitted, because my cornea is facing inward, the edge of the prosthetic shell touches it and it's too uncomfortable to wear. There are a couple solutions to that

Ultimately if I wanted I could get my eye removed and have a prosthetic eye. I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet.

Thanks. Well the right eye i got cleared up at the time. That lasted about a month or so. I've been blind in the left eye since birth. So I've always just had to rely on my right eye. I've been able to see fine, albeit not 20/20. I have glasses, but they don't help much.

Oh. I find if I'm looking and standing close enough I can judge the distance. But sometimes I'll feel really dumb and be clumsy like I'll step off a curb because I didn't realize I wasn't close enough to land properly, or I'll take a drink of something and completely miss my mouth. But that happens when I'm completely not paying attention.

Lol I like both men and women. And yes, relationships have been difficult, especially first impressions. Especially when the first thing people do is see your face. It's different if you have like a missing toe or a mole on your back. Its the fact that its my face, my eyes, the biggest way people connect is through looking into each other eyes. I mean, I'm a romantic. And thank you for your kind words. I only recently developed glaucoma. All throughout my adolescence I was never diagnosed with anything internal with my eye.
Then in my 20s a cataract formed but I didn't know because I couldn't see out of it anyway. Just the way it looked was noticeable.