If the child is not faking it, the condition is called strabismus. I was born with it as well, though my eyes were pointing outward. Underdevelopment of some of the eye muscles, or sommat. I refused to have it fixed until i was 24, because i had a horrible fear of doctors. Talk about a living hell. Turns out that your ability to make eye contact with someone is fairly important for social development. To this day i still dont look people in the eye, although my appearance is normal. One downside is, if you dont see double your brain shuts off one eye at a time (under conscious control for me!) to avoid the doubling. No depth preception.. and no 3D movies.. or stereograms.. damn it. oh, and.. i’d suggest not trying to cut me off on the interstate. takes me a bit to judge your distance.

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they did try to fix it when i was three. it failed, as those surgeries often do on young children apparently. It turned it from esotropic to exotropic (out instead of in) but did not even it out. had it succeded i may have very well been stuck with double vision. by school age, i had “learned” to alternate (the technical term). Its all in the past now, and since i have no concept of normal vision.. this is “normal” to me and i’d know no other way. You should see the pics after the surgery – its horror-movie grade gore.. a bloody, pulpy eyeball! I kept waking up during the first of the two surgeries, which was.. frightening. Needle and hook and scalpel coming to eye cannot blink omg omg cant turn scream