• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    Due to a childhood accident, I have a vastly different astigmatism in each eye so the lines and streaks are all double vision and ghostly.

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        23 hours ago

        When I was 6 our cursed VCR ate my Aladdin tape. I took apart the VCR to try to rescue the tape and ended up with a small spring tearing the cornea and iris of my right eye.

        I am insanely lucky that a family friend just happened to be one of the nation’s foremost pediatric ophthalmologists and that my hometown has an excellent optometry school or I may have lost my eye. Somewhere there are case studies that were done on my eye. I ended up having to wear an eyepatch for a few weeks too which made me the coolest first grader ever.

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          How are you not dead, I’m pretty site VCR’s also have capacitors

          Some of which can hold a charge big enough to kill you or injure you especially at 6 years old

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          Wow! Much more interesting that I would have expected. When I was a kid I met another kid who was blind due to a rubber band paperclip dart to the eye. Well he wasn’t blind just had two pupils that made things weird to see.