1.1 What Are The Symptoms Of Strabismus?

There are many symptoms to having crossed eyes:

• Misaligned eyes: In other words, the eye movement is abnormal in relation to normal vision. So, one eye looks in one direction - the one eye looks in another.

To people with strabismus, this is socially unpleasant, and makes normal things such a finding a partner more difficult for the patient. As humans have evolved to favor symmetry in their significant others. [4]

This is why the number one reason for surgery in adult strabismus is psychosocial (in plain English, this means for social reasons/ interacting with others). [5]

And this is also why most people with strabismus are concerned about passing it down to their offspring: They typically do not want their children to be bullied, or have to deal with the same social alienation as they did.

• Poor depth perception: Which makes it impossible to watch 3d movies. Or makes every day tasks that depend on depth perception, such as parking, more difficult.
• Double vision: Because both eyes are misaligned, the input of the eyes are competing in the visual center of the brain - instead of being fused together into a full coherent one.

Additionally, strabismus can lead to amblyopia:

1.2 What Are The Symptoms Of Amblyopia?

Amblyopia is characterized by permanent blurry vision in the weaker eye. The severe amblyopia (significant loss of visual acuity) is the worst thing that can happen when you have strabismus. [6]

The reduced vision in one eye due to amblyopia is usually permanent. I've personally lost 80% of my visual acuity in my left eye, and so far have not managed to re-gain it.

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2.1 Can Strabismus Be Passed On?

The best study in regards to the inheritability of strabismus is called: Genetic Basis of Congenital Strabismus. [8]

What are the findings of that study?

1. While the study outlines that 'both genes and the environment contribute to its occurrence [of strabismus]' - they define the relative odds of strabismus to be between 2 and 2.2.
2. Which means, if one or both parents have strabismus, the absolute risk doubles.
3. The absolute risk of getting strabismus is about 3-4%. If the risk doubles, the actual new risk of inhering strabismus is about 6-9%. So the chance of you giving strabismus to your kids is about 1 in 11, vs 1 in 25 in the regular population.

If you double a low risk, it still stays low.

Life is risky, and it takes both genome and environment to create strabismus. So, the fear of giving strabismus to your kids is not a good enough reason to not have kids.

2.2 Can Amblyopia Be Passed On?

Amblyopia (blurry vision of one eye) occurs typically once strabismus is present. So if strabismus - meaning the misalignment of both eyes is present - the chance of poor vision in one eye increases significantly.

Which means that amblyopia is indirectly hereditary - because strabismus to some extent is hereditary.

2.3 What Causes A Lazy Eye To Develop Later In Life?

The same mechanism that causes the lazy eye (strabismus) in a newborn child, is likely to be at work as an adult.

This process is what causes lazy eye in adults:

1. The brain favors one eye (the stronger eye), which results in a slight eye deviation of the weaker eye. Which makes the central nervous system unable to process the two images of both eyes... [9]
2. .. leading to a negative spiral until ultimately, one eye is weak, and the other eye is completely dominant. [10]

In my opinion, the best way to live life is to graciously overcome all challenges that are thrown at you.

So while sometimes the card we're dealt with are not in our favor, it's our responsibility to play our cards well.

As a result, every person with a lazy eye should be focused to improve their condition. As this not only improves their quality of life [11], but due to epigenetics also that of their off-spring. [12]

The problem? Improving the condition is very:

• Cost-intensive: Surgery costs $5,000 to $10,000
• Time-intensive: Vision therapy costs 20 minutes per day, virtually forever
• And headache-intensive: Most solutions to the problem take a lot of effort/headache, as they're not easy to use and require constant supervision of an eye doctor

So while vision therapy or surgery is a wonderfully effective treatment for strabismus/lazy eye - it is clear that a new first-line treatment is needed:

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