I have an eye condition called "
Nystagmus" that was diagnosed when I was a baby. Is a term to describe fast, uncontrollable movements of the eyes. Further explanation in link below:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/003037.htm
I am one of the lucky few that can control the eye movements to a certain extent. By tilting my head to the right allows my eyes to focus. The more nervous I am the more pronounced the tilt. I can't stare at any object for any period of time as my eyes will move away. It won me many staring contests in school when my eyes would start to wander back and forth with the other person breaking concentration and laughing. I was told at an early age that most people with my condition are considered blind due to the fact they have no control over their eye movements.
It creates problems for my eye doctor and specialist when they try to test my peripheral vision. Keeping you head still and getting your eyes to focus on all the small flashing lights.
The bummer for me is that it has prevented me from playing team sports. Someone hits a fly ball to left feild and there's no gaurnetee my eyes will follow the ball to the glove. In basketball you are constantly looking in all directions and for me it often came down to busted eye glasses when my eyes couldn't focus on a pass coming my way. With hockey it's much the same except it's the puck i need to focus on. I was stubborn in my youth and "can't do" wasn't something I believed in. Reality did eventualy kick in and lets just say I gave up team sports all together and foxused on sports I could achieve in.
I will leave it at that and let others post bummers they'd like to share
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