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Disguise Your Lazy Eye in Pictures and Conversations and Connect!
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Dec 14, 2022
Having an eye turn can make it difficult to connect in conversations and learning a few techniques to disguise it will allow you to focus on more important things. For detailed directions on how to disguise it and help with the emotional part of having an eye turn, head over to https://strabismussolutions.com/disguise/ To schedule a consult with me, go to https://strabismussolutions.com/consult/
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Having a lazy eye, which technically I'm talking about strabismus, when your eye turns
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can present a lot of problems visually with how you function in the world and requires a lot of
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therapy to treat and fix, but most people don't really care about how their eyes are functioning
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They're way more concerned with how they look. So today I'm going to teach you how to disguise your lazy eye or strabismus or eye turn, whatever you call it
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when your eyes are not pointing the same direction, I'm going to teach you how to disguise that
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when you're in a job interview, taking pictures, or just having a normal conversation with somebody
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There are definitely some tips and tricks that I've learned over the years that have made a huge
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difference. Now, you might look at me right now and say, you don't have a lazy eye
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And that's true, especially when I'm looking near. I have been working for three years to fix my eyes
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But here's a picture to prove that I, like you, have dealt with having an eye turn for most of my life
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If you're interested in fixing your eye like I did, definitely go to my website
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I have a ton of information over there. If you go to Strabismas Solutions.com and you can do a consult with me
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I can totally help you with that part. But in this video, we're just talking about the cosmetic part
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and how to get your eyes to look more normal. You have Strabismus
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Your eyes aren't pointing in the same direction. So there's no trick besides fixing your eyes
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that's gonna make them look perfect. But there's definitely things that you can do to
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what I would say, de-accentuate it. There are a lot of different types of Sturbismis
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but in this video, I'm gonna help you learn how to disguise your eye turn
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if your eye is going out to the right, out to the left
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into the right or into the left. So I have different techniques you could call them
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or little tricks that you can do with the way you have your head placed
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That makes a huge difference. So in general, you can either move your head position
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and I'm not talking about like this, moving your head like this, tiny, tiny, tiny bits
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Or you can move where your eyes are looking so I can look over to the left of the camera
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I can look over to the right of the camera. And I'm making it a little bit more dramatic
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so you can see in actuality, you're going to just look ever so slightly to the left
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or ever so slightly to the right. And that gonna make a big difference So in general you want to move your head If you moving your head you want to move it in the same direction that your eye turns
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So if your eye goes to the left, either if it's crossing out, your right eye is going out
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or your left eye is going in, right? So if your eye is pointing this direction, you just move your head with your eye
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When you move your head with your eye, it just makes it a little bit less obvious
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same thing to the right. If your eye is going to the right too much, one of them straight
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and then the other one's going this direction, you want to move your head with the direction of
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your eye turns. So you know which eye turns. Just very slightly move your head that direction
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The same thing can happen. Like if you're in a picture, you want to put yourself on the side of the
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picture that helps you tilt your head the right direction because you're never straight on
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usually like in a group photo. You're always to one side or that. the other. So put yourself on the side that makes your head tilt the direction that makes your
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eye turn less obvious. So that's the first way is if you just move your head. The other way
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like if you're taking a passport photo or a driver's license photo, something where you have to be
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head on, or if you're in a conversation where it'd be awkward to be like turning to the side
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you're going to look just a little bit to the side. And you see how instead of having one perfectly
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straight and one crazy, sorry, I shouldn't call it crazy. I'm not meaning a fence. I have crazy eyes too
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So you're not allowed to be offended by that. Okay, if this eye is straight and this eyes to the side
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you are looking and focusing with this eye, you just move it just a little bit
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And it kind of centers it. I guess no one's eye goes like that. It's more like this
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And you just center it just a little bit. Are your eyes going to look perfect? No, but it makes it so much less obvious
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So when you are turning your head, you, well, sorry, that probably was really loud
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When you're turning your head, you turn the same direction as your eye turn
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When you're changing where you're looking, you look opposite of your eye turn
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Shortly after figuring this out and realizing that where I looked and how I tilted my head
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really made a big difference on my eye turn, we ended up having family pictures
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And so I totally experimented with it and had some major successes and some major fails
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So here is a picture of what I looked like on the day of family pictures
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And this is just the picture I took before we went out. So you can see I have a very severe exotropia, right
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So remember, this is like a mirror. So my right eye was going out
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So according to the principles since my right I was going out or move my head also to the right which means I would want to be on the left side in photographs and that sort of thing Or I could just look slightly to the left of where the camera was to help So I show the first picture
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So the first picture I took, I accidentally put myself on the wrong side. So I'm on the right side of the picture
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And as you can see in this picture, my eye turn looks pretty severe
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Like it's further away so it's not as noticeable, but you can still definitely tell that I have a very severe eye turn
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my head is turned just slightly and I'm on the other side of the picture so it makes it a little bit
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more obvious. Okay in this next picture I tried to tilt my head to make the turn less obvious right
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you can see that I moved my head over to the side to try to you know I moved it way to the right
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trying to make it so it wasn't noticeable but I moved way too far to the right so it still looks really
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weird. And so that's just an example of if you move your head too much, it's not going to work. You just
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move it a little tiny bit. You're just trying to take the edge off really. And then here's the last one
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I think it looks pretty good. Yes, I still have an eye turn. It's still there, but it's not the first
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thing you see in the picture, like in some of these other ones where it's like you're everyone
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you know, the human brain is naturally drawn to like something that doesn't look right or a mistake. And so I hate
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that about pictures. Like when I've got this family picture of my family and then it's like the
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attention goes right to my eye. And so I like in this last picture that it's, yeah, if you're
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looking for it, yes, my eyes still don't look normal, but way better than in some of the other ones
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I showed you. I eventually had surgery for my Strabismus and so my eye went from pointing out to
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pointing in. This presented a whole new awesome opportunity, I guess, we'll call it for me to
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learn how to yet again disguise that eye turn. So here's a picture of me just a couple days after
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surgery. It's black and white because my eyes were all red and and disgusting and I don't want
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to gross you out. But you can see that my right eye is turning really far in. And so because my
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eye was turning in, I took a second picture looking just to the right of the camera lens
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and so I moved my eye, basically my eye was going to the left
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I looked to the right. So I looked opposite of the direction of my eye turn
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And you can see in the second picture, it's a lot less noticeable
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Is it still there? Of course it is. It's not going to go away
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but it way less obvious You don it not as noticeable It not as harsh It doesn draw as much attention Like you might be a little confused but it not like flashing lights killing you
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So those are the, that is the idea. It's really simple. I definitely recommend practicing this
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You know, you can practice with like taking a selfie or like with the webcam on your computer
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You know, if you're doing Zoom calls or something like that, you can practice, okay, do I want to
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look, you know, sometimes when I was first figuring this out, especially for making videos on
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YouTube and things like that. Now, I just look directly at the camera because I don't care if my
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eye turns or not because that's what this channel is all about. But before, I would say
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okay, I'm looking at the speaker, the very left edge of my webcam. And I would take a video
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like that. And then I would look and see, okay, how does that look? Okay, that's too far. And you can kind of figure out, okay, I want to look just like one inch to the left of my camera. And that's
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just right. Maybe it seems vain. Are we all vain? Maybe. And that's okay, right? Like, we have a
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lazy eye. And it's not, it's hard to connect with people when your eyes aren't pointing the same
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direction because even if they're the nicest person in the world, it's still distracting. It's
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harder for them to focus on what you're saying when they're trying to figure out what in the world
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your eyes are doing. So if there's little changes you can make and spend three minutes figuring it out
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it's not like you need to spend hours figuring this out. Just be like, okay, I'm just going to look half an inch to the side of my webcam
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Makes it less obvious. I can focus on the conversation. The other person can focus on the conversation
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Why not, right? Do I love myself and did I love myself even with my I turn
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Of course. I am all about having confidence and that is such an important piece to this
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But it's also okay to try to make it. appear in a way that it's not distracting from the picture or the conversation
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So if you want to know more about the emotional part of this or to see those pictures and
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like step by step and have it a little bit more clear, I wrote an article about it
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So go to Sturbismas Solutions.com slash disguise, D-I-S-G-U-I-S-E. That's kind of a hard word to spell, but I believe in you
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And I have it all laid out with like pictures and step-by-step processes
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and then I go into what you're thinking about when you're talking to somebody
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because I'm here to tell you that that's going to make an even bigger difference
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than the way your eyes look. So definitely go check that out and I will see you in the next video
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