Re: New Depths: The Art of Writing Quicksand Stories
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:37 am
Interesting. I was born with double amblyopia (two "lazy" or "wandering" eyes). Didn't get surgery to correct it until I was five. I never actually developed binocular depth perception. I have learned to compensate, but as you said 3D Cinema is a waste of money for me too. I wasn't much of a ballplayer either- I batted .009 in my Little League career. I do wear glasses- have since age 2- but I'm far from blind without them. Unfortunately my daughter inherited her mother's nearsightedness, and they both need their glasses to find their glasses.
Lomax wrote:Fred588 wrote:My vision has become rather poor and it has become very hard to read what I have written on a computer screen.
Sorry to hear that, Fred.
Me, I was born functionally blind in one eye, meaning that I have very limited depth perception (when I was a kid, learning to catch a ball was a trial, and my efforts exposed me to much mockery) - and 3D cinema is a closed world to me.
In later life, my other eye (possibly over-burdened) has deteriorated - though in the opposite way to yours. I can see this screen fine; but without glasses I have difficulty working out what's across the street.
Worse; I have passed some dodgy DNA to my sons (why couldn't they have inherited their mother's eyesight, dammit?), all of whom have needed glasses from a young age.