jbeshir:

kontextmaschine:

Got an eye exam and the result is my eyes don’t align focus

Which explains why I’ve noticed myself reading text within 16 inches one-eyed

And I asked her if there were exercises to resolve that and she said no it was an insoluble neural issue but I could get glasses w/prism lenses

But she was part of a practice that clearly makes its money off the attached glasses shop, to the point they put a 1-week return appointment (w/ cost for rescheduling) as a gate on getting a contacts prescription

So

I know at least some kinds of alignment issue are treatable by e.g. surgery on eye muscles to adjust strength, at least so long as you haven’t already developed amblyopia that resisted patching, so maybe it would be worth trying to get a second opinion from a specialist if you’re suspicious they might be being overly dismissive; I would, its a high value area.

Amblyopia is what blinded me in one eye - once the link from the eye to the brain is decayed enough as a result of an underlying issue making the eye not provide useful input, it stops being fixable. I don’t know how often/fast this develops in adults whose vision had already fully developed.

I’ve always heard of alignment issues as the relatively easily fixable underlying cause you want to treat promptly, and while I’d normally trust a optician over that understanding, if I was suspicious of their incentives…

> @drethelin Get yourself a Brock string

But can I do that badass pulp fiction assassin thing where I train my eyes to focus independently?

(Remember when we thought that instadeath strike from ‘90s Bruce Timm Batman was fake?)