Small problem and a question

[dragonimp]

I have a small stye or zit or something at the corner of my eye that's causing some irritation, so I'm giving it the warm washcloth treatment - though not right at the moment, because this keyboard requires two hands - and since it's my left eye, this really limits what I can do. No reading, or anything else that requires me to see details. I suppose I could watch something, if I didn't care too much about tracking the screen. I might have to stick to podcasts.

Which brings me to my question, for those who wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

TV usually depicts poor sight by unfocusing the camera, but I've never thought that looked right. For me, it's more like ... closest analogy I can come up with is trying to look through static. The details are there, I can tell they're there, but unless I stare right at them they tend to be intermittently obscured. And small things like letters don't stay put. So my question is: how is uncorrected vision for anyone else? Is the "blurry camera" depiction accurate, close, way off? Are my eyes (eye) just weird?

Sub-question: do your glasses actually give you clear vision? (Mine never have.)

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[dormantdrake.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the lack of depth perception is from (no insurance to cover going to the eye doctor, so I only go when my vision has gotten worse *and* I can afford new glasses/lenses). I know I get it from my mother. I can consciously focus on just the input from one eye or the other if I choose, but it doesn't change anything, and I've never had depth perception. (I can go on at length about how much I hate "3D" stuff.) I have *excellent* peripheral vision (part of the reason why wearing glasses when I go outside annoys me), though, and can even focus on stuff in the extreme edge of my vision without shifting my eyes. I suspect it may be related to the odd wiring in my brain.

(Other odd things include: I have to translate my thoughts into words, and what I hear/read into my thoughts, which are very abstract. I read words as shapes, rather than a series of letters, which is why misspelled words annoy me so much. I tend to recognize people by the noises/sounds they make rather than what they look like. I cannot recognize faces at *all*.)