Lazy eye? HELP! - Eye & Vision Message Board

BGEAR121 · 03-12-2002, 05:54 PM

hello i have this problem that started about 2 years ago. i think its a lazy eye but im not sure. when i look at myself in the mirror my eyes look fine and perfect and no one has really noticed anything about them either. but when i take photographs my eyes are uneven. like my left eye is smaller than the other and its really noticable. is it because of the camera or something or should i really get this checked out. i never really had this problem before as a kid. i would always take photographs when i was younger and i looked fine but now in every photograph this occurs =( does anyone else have this problem.

Katbabe1987 · 03-17-2002, 11:01 AM

Yes, one of my eyes always looks bigger than the other one in pictures...I have no idea what it is because my eyes don't seem to look big in a mirror but maybe that's because you can't really look at both eyes at the same exact time in the mirror. It could be a lazy eye, but even if it was no one really cares. It's not weird or anything a lot of people do have them. I don't know what causes them but people have them. I guess maybe we notice our eyes in the pictures cause w can study each eye...hope this helps you though! And I wouldn't go get anything checked out it's probably nothing unless you want to of course!! Talk 2 ya later sometime! ~KAT

04-26-2002, 11:52 AM

Speaking as a person with 2 lazy eyes, I was born with weak eye muscles, I doubt you have a lazy eye. My boyfriend has perfectly good eyes and in most pictures his eyes look uneven. I think it is his "picture face". You would know if you had lazy eyes because people would say(all the time) "Are you looking at me?" Good luck and practice some better "picture faces" in the mirror!