I just need to share this

Hey man, your eyes look great. I've dealt with esotropia and amblyopia of my left eye since birth pretty much. I had corrective surgery when I was in 8th grade. I'm going on 26 right now. My eye is pretty good but still does its own thing sometimes, mostly when I'm tired.

Anyways, don't put too much weight on what other people are thinking. People, even ones that I would have considered my friends, ridiculed me for my eye from elementary school all the way to high school graduation. Kids in particular can just be pieces of shit. Once I got to university, nobody really cared that much about surface-level stuff like that - only me. And those same 'friends' who would occasionally join in talking shit on me over my eye ceased to do that over time - pretty quickly at that.

Like someone else said, I think the most important thing you could do now is just laugh it off - get accustomed to being the butt of comments like that, take them lightly, move on with your day. If you genuinely disregard what these people are saying and don't take it personally, over time I guarantee you'll see people treat you differently because nobody likes being around someone who takes everything so seriously. Try to be the best person you can be and the rest will fall into place.

To answer your question, I try and see a little bit of good in everybody. That's applicable to everything, really. There's no value in letting this condition warp our perception of things around us. It doesn't make you any less human than the schmo without it.

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