A question about lazy-eye or whatever it's called...

there was an article on espn about a red sox minor league pitcher who is legally blind (very limited visibility in his right eye) and wears his hat cocked to the left ("gansta style") to balance out the light.

"An eye that diverges in gaze. A lazy eye is more formally called strabismus . A lazy eye (strabismus) can be due to either esotropia (cross-eyed) or exotropia (wall-eyed). The danger of the condition is that the brain cones to rely more on one eye than the other and that part of the brain circuitry connected to the less-favored eye fails to develop properly, leading to amblyopia (blindness) in that eye...

"The classic treatment for a moderately lazy eye has long been an eyepatch, covering the stronger eye with a patch, forcing the weaker eye to do enough work to catch up. However, eyedrops can work as well as an eyepatch in correcting moderate lazy eye and preventing the development of amblyopia. Atropine eyedrops are instilled daily in the stronger ( dominant ) eye. The atropine works by blurring rather than blocking vision in the stronger eye..."

Apparently wall-eye is still somewhat acceptable.

I have this too! I don't think I have depth perception problems, though.

I've never heard wall-eyed. I think that would offend me (or make me crack up). I was born cross-eyed, had surgery and grew up with one good eye (20/15 as a child but has slowly degenerated until I need a -1 lense) and one bad eye (-2 lens growing up now a -3ish).

Since I had one good eye, my parents and opthamologists could never convince me to wear glasses, and I was never able to put contacts in to strengthen the muscles. My left, good one, has always looked normal and the right (that never got used) looked off to the side.

I got tired of explaining why and/or being made fun of and having to punch smaller kids, so I started telling people I had a glass eye (but the school wouldn't let me take it out, obviously). I used to be really self-conscious about the wandering eye and still don't like to have my photo taken (even though it's gotten better since I had to start wearing glasses for driving and movies).

And no, I have no depth perception. This really fucked me up when I tried to play baseball.

I would say yes, it does alter your ability to perceive depth, but as you've had it since you're a kid, you don't notice. I have one short sighted eye and one long sighted and apparently (optometrist says) have limited depth perception but I don't notice it at all and can drive, catch things etc perfectly well.