3. What ruined your life?

What ruined your life?

My lazy eye. I was popular and outgoing for the first couple decades of life, but I started to notice vision changes in my mid-teens. My parents were good people but we were just poor so I never told them or anyone because I knew we couldn't really afford anything serious to happen.

I'm in my mid-30s now and can't really look beyond about 10ft without getting some kind of blurry or double vision. I can't keep eye contact with anyone casually because I'm so terrified and embarrassed my eye will get lazy while we ararlooking at each other, I fidget so much when I'm forced into a conversation that I worry I look like I have a disability, and it bothers me so much I can like...feel and hear my anxiety just screaming internally through my body when I'm forced into social situations.

I got really lucky in that I made some really strong, lifelong friends and found an amazing SO, but I know I'm not the person I want to be and I'm secretly, intensely depressed every day but don't share it with anyone in my life because I can around stand to confront how much I hate the way I look and the way I act because of it.

But life...life, uh, finds a way.

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