Have they found a way to fix my eye yet?

Question

Iam blind in one eye. When I was born I was born early. When I was learning how to walk I fell and hit it on the corrnor of the table. So that caused it to hemerage. I dont like this having 1 eye. I have had problems with kids malking fun of me that caused me to get mad so I hit them in the face. I really want 2 know so I can see what normal people see.

Answer 1

You already see what normal people see. With normal people, they two eyes are lined up so that the brain gets ONE image. The only additions with two are a wider field of vision to the side (the bad eye side) and stereopsis or the ability to 'see' in three dimensions which is only good for about 10-15 feet in humans anyway.

The kids that make fun of you, don't understand this either. They try to bring you down, and that brings them up. So if your level of self esteem is dependent on someone Else's shame, you've really got a problem. The only way you'll ever be happy is by making other people miserable.

The 'best' thing you can do for yourself, is excel. Excel in your school. Be first in science class or math or history. Not everybody has the physical make up to be on the football team or tennis team or ?. A LOT of successful people were NEVER popular in school, took a lot of 'stuff' from other kids....actually most adults will know very well what you are going through...they went through it TOO!

And if you think it stops when you are older, think again.

A man got a ticket. He didn't feel he deserved the ticket. So he took pictures of the place where he got the ticket. They showed that the police officer who was there, in that place couldn't have seen what he said he saw, and therefore shouldn't have given the man the ticket.

Went to court. In court the policeman LIED! Just to win, he lied.

When in college, was in chemistry lab and the experiment was to make as much of a compound as possible and it had to be as pure as possible. So I had my experiment cooking along, doing great. Went to the bathroom. 5 minutes. When I came back, a fair amount of my product was gone. And my grade depended on it as this was a final lab. The lab that demonstrated that all the other labs, with all the different techniques we were taught, had made us 'good' scientists, good laboratory people. Sort of like having the right technique in Crime Scene Investigators so as to get the right results.

These little stories never stop. This stuff will continue as long as man is man. You, don't have to keep playing on that field. You don't have to get hurt when someone calls you a name. How would they feel if the problem were reversed. Would you do that to them? him?

So who are YOU? and who do you want to be? What kind of person do you plan to be when you grow up. And it isn't all that far away! Since you don't have the information to know, how can you at least not shoot yourself in the foot while learning? The best way is to succeed in school, go on to a college, go on to graduate school....or go???? But by doing the best you can, and not playing the children games anymore, you'll go further faster.

Be you. And wear safety glasses. Wear them to protect your good eye. You can still fall. And if you are poking other people in the face, sooner or later someone is going to poke back, and if the good eye is hit, you'll be more than out an eye, you'll be out of vision.

I'd be interested in knowing what type of injury you had that caused the bleeding and why that resulted in a blind eye. Lots of people get blood in their eye from trauma,..the blood goes away...they see. If you were already walking, then you had already developed vision, so something more must have occurred. Can you find out? Is it correctable? Maybe it's a simple problem, maybe not.

Ask your parent(s) to give you the information or have them write me in this forum if they don't mind. Maybe there's something fixable there.

Answer 2

If your retina was damaged in the fall or if you had retinopathy of prematurity, then it is unlikely that there is a fix. If your other eye is working, then you already see what other people see.

How do the kids make fun of you and even know that one eye doesn't work? Does your eye turn in or out? The best way to eliminate teasing is to agree with the teaser. They only do it because they know you will react, so beat them to the punch. When they tease, just say, with a smile on your face "Well you can call me Cyclops" (an ancient mythological giant with only one eye) or " Yup, I'm the Chameleon Boy" (lizard with eyes pointing in different directions) or "Hey, it's an advantage to be wall eyed, the teacher thinks I'm looking at my test but I'm really looking at yours and copying the answers" You get the idea. When you agree with a bully or thank him for the insult or even insult yourself, you totally disarm them.

The other strategy to deal with insults, I call it the "Miss Manners Manoever" Miss Manners writes an etiquette column and she says that a true lady or gentleman has such polite ears that they cannot hear rudeness. When someone says something to you about your eyes, you simply smile and say "Pardon, I didn't quite catch that". The insulter repeats, you smile again and say "I'm sorry, I just didn' hear, could you repeat that, please". The insulter repeats, you smile again, shaking your head ruefully and say "I don't know what's wrong, I see your lips moving but I just don't hear you, could you repeat yourself one more time time please?" and so on and so on. An insult is only effective if you react and really only effective the first time, eventually the insulter will give up. As other people watch the insulter repeating the rude remark over and over, while you are smiling and being polite by saying "pardon" and "please", they will think he is rude and stupid and you are very patient and tolerant.

To make the Miss Manners manoever even more effective, enlist the aid of a friend. After about the fourth repetition of the insult, your friend simply says, in a quiet and polite voice "Well, you known that Miss Manners says that a real lady or gentleman can't hear rudeness, I guess it's true".