A realization...

[jessmarimba]

This isn't quite a health issue, but I recently discovered that I don't really have any depth perception due to the one eye that I can't see clearly out of.

I sort of feel like I've just had the visual equivalent of an exercise-induced asthma diagnosis, or something.

My whole life, I've been clumsy and terrible at sports. I can't hit, can't catch, can't throw, can't aim, can't even play video games...can't read a line on my mountain bike (and also, must be very, very brave to turn left at an unprotected intersection while driving). NOW I KNOW WHY!!

(Oddly, I have the hand-eye coordination for percussion, but I think it's because I rely on my ears more to know when I'm hitting things correctly, instead of looking at them).

Just wanted to share. Now I know why I find mountain biking so terrifying on downhills! I'm used to trying to gauge distance at foot-speed, but I can't judge relative speed of oncoming objects at all on the bike. Now I've got something to work with, anyway!

[tealtreak]

WOW- to think you used to ride Buttermilk and Northbank!!! You are one brave, amazing lady (: Good luck with managing it (now that you know it) no corrective lens options?

[Crankin]

Same thing, here. It's hindered me all of my life.
I diagnosed myself when in college and I was studying learning disorders.

[malkin]

I'm picturing you with the big light bulb over your head with an exclamation point!

[jessmarimba]

I'm picturing you with the big light bulb over your head with an exclamation point!

Hahaha yep I'm actually surprised that none of my previous optometrists thought to check before. I was complaining about driving and I pretty much watched the light bulb go off for this guy.

Teal, I prefer contacts & my vision can't be corrected with them. I wear coke bottle glasses sometimes but those mean my peripheral vision is compromised (and I'm afraid to bike with them on, lest I fall and they go flying off somewhere) But I definitely wasn't killing it on Buttermilk/Northbank! I always went with people newer than me, it helped!