Can people see out of a lazy eye?!
Question: Can people see out of a lazy eye?
Answers:
Yes, of course... "Lazy eyes" look odd to people outside the body that has them... but yes, one can see quite fine out of a 'lazy eye'...
Most people refer to a "lazy eye" as an eye that appears turned away from straight gaze. The technical term for this strabismus, or tropia. The eye can be turned out (exotropia), in/to the nose (esotropia), or up or down (hyper- and hypotropia, respectively). The eye could also turn in an oblique direction (up and out, for example) - this is less common.
Someone who has had a long-standing strabismus learns to suppress or "turn off" the vision in that eye. This is occurs as an adaptation to double vision and visual confusion. Confusion in this instance refers to seeing two overlapped images. The eyes are linked to perform together - both eye point to the same object. When one eye deviates, the image from each eye overlap on one another, so the deviating eye's image is suppressed.
Suppression over time can lead to amblyopia. Amblyopia refers to decreased visual acuity in one eye. In essence, the health of the eye is fine, but the eye cannot "see well" even with the perfect glasses or contact lens prescription.
So in essence, yes, someone can see out of a lazy eye (especially if they cover their good eye); however, the person may not see well out of that eye.
Optometry student
Yes, my two cousins had lazy eyes and they weren't blind or anything.
Yes they can