So im a 14 year old boy. I am in 10th grade. ever since i was born my right eye has been misaligned with my left eye. It wasn’t so bad in kindergarten through 4th grade but i guess as people get older they start being more judge mental. People started telling me that my eyes looked funny in 5th grade. And now some people even use it as a excuse to make fun of me and to make them selves look better. i spend many days depressed, i hate myself sometimes. I especially hate a boy in my 5th period who humiliated me in front of the whole class by calling me a “cross-eyed queer” because i was standing behind a boy. And to all you guys who tell me to be thankful that i was only born with a lazy eye please dont. people with major deformities earn an automatic respect but people like me with “a googly eye” get laughed at. this is beggining to take a heavy phsycological toll on my life. i am depressed. my mom considered getting me surgery when i was 3 years old but my doctor said it was too risky and if they mess up i will have to get a glass eye for the rest of my life. so my dad declined the reccomendation. I hate having a lazy eye! even though only one of them has a problem it looks like they are both crossed. It’s gotten to me so bad that i can’t look at people in the face when i say hi. When i meet new people i squint so hopefully they won’t notice it. My dad tells me not to be so shy and to talk to people more but i guess he dosent know what it feels like to have eyes that arent straight. I fear that i will never have a girlfreind and never get married and will get jobs turned down because of my condition. My dream of joining the Marines like my older brother is even ruined because of my eye. So what do you guys think? should i look into the surgery or keep my eye the way it is. the optometrist says the surgery had a 60% chance of failure,that was back in 2004 …what do you guys think i should do?

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