Which Eye to Look At?
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There's a parts guy I get to deal with a lot when ordering BMW windscreens; good guy and always have a great chat about many things when we have the time. He has, what looks to me, a prosthetic eye. The trouble is, I can't work out which is the real one. It's not really such a big deal to know (although I am secretly interested what might have happened) only, the alignment is a bit out on both eyes and I don't know which eye to look at when we talk. The more I try, the more I become aware of what he might be seeing. I don't want him to feel uncomfortable but at the same time I want to maintain eye contact respectfully.
Both eyes are the same colour, but one is noticeably darker. I'm just not sure which one can see me. Of course, I might be completely mistaken and he just has two different looking eyeballs, but when I played rugby we had a player in our second team who lost his eye in a car crash. Terrific player if the ball was coming from his good side as it were, but he would always struggle from the opposite direction. He was also a great laugh on tour as he would drop his glass eye into someone's pint etc. BMW parts guy's eye combination looks almost identical to Nick's.
Is there an etiquette in this situation? I find myself looking at each eye individually because they move independently, and I must end up looking a bit cross-eyed myself as I end up looking at the bridge of his nose to stop mine tracking his.
Both eyes are the same colour, but one is noticeably darker. I'm just not sure which one can see me. Of course, I might be completely mistaken and he just has two different looking eyeballs, but when I played rugby we had a player in our second team who lost his eye in a car crash. Terrific player if the ball was coming from his good side as it were, but he would always struggle from the opposite direction. He was also a great laugh on tour as he would drop his glass eye into someone's pint etc. BMW parts guy's eye combination looks almost identical to Nick's.
Is there an etiquette in this situation? I find myself looking at each eye individually because they move independently, and I must end up looking a bit cross-eyed myself as I end up looking at the bridge of his nose to stop mine tracking his.
Stick Legs said:
A colleague of mine who has a lazy eye notices when people are struggling and politely says 'pick one & stick with it!'
That seems sound advice.
An old work mate had a lazy eye and it would only go sideways when we lifted something heavy. The amount of times I nearly dropped granite countertops from laughing.That seems sound advice.
Tony Starks said:
Stick Legs said:
A colleague of mine who has a lazy eye notices when people are struggling and politely says 'pick one & stick with it!'
That seems sound advice.
An old work mate had a lazy eye and it would only go sideways when we lifted something heavy. The amount of times I nearly dropped granite countertops from laughing.That seems sound advice.
thebraketester said:
Tony Starks said:
Stick Legs said:
A colleague of mine who has a lazy eye notices when people are struggling and politely says 'pick one & stick with it!'
That seems sound advice.
An old work mate had a lazy eye and it would only go sideways when we lifted something heavy. The amount of times I nearly dropped granite countertops from laughing.That seems sound advice.
Tony Starks said:
Stick Legs said:
A colleague of mine who has a lazy eye notices when people are struggling and politely says 'pick one & stick with it!'
That seems sound advice.
An old work mate had a lazy eye and it would only go sideways when we lifted something heavy. The amount of times I nearly dropped granite countertops from laughing.That seems sound advice.
Glassman said:
Both eyes are the same colour, but one is noticeably darker. I'm just not sure which one can see me.
Heterochromia is when you have different coloured eyes. In most cases it's just superficial so he can see just fine but one eye has less melanin than the other causing different pigmentation.Fun fact: we all have brown eyes but some of us have less melanin (which makes our eyes brown) so we have a lighter colour iris.
I'd recommend, as suggested above, just focusing on his nose if it distracts you.
captain_cynic said:
Heterochromia is when you have different coloured eyes. In most cases it's just superficial so he can see just fine but one eye has less melanin than the other causing different pigmentation.
Fun fact: we all have brown eyes but some of us have less melanin (which makes our eyes brown) so we have a lighter colour iris.
I'd recommend, as suggested above, just focusing on his nose if it distracts you.
A kid at primary school at one brown eye as normal, but his other eye which was split more or less vertically in half blue/brown. Didn't really notice it after a while at the time but thinking about it again now it was quite strange. Sectoral heterochromia, according to Google just now - pretty rare.Fun fact: we all have brown eyes but some of us have less melanin (which makes our eyes brown) so we have a lighter colour iris.
I'd recommend, as suggested above, just focusing on his nose if it distracts you.
mikey_b said:
captain_cynic said:
Heterochromia is when you have different coloured eyes. In most cases it's just superficial so he can see just fine but one eye has less melanin than the other causing different pigmentation.
Fun fact: we all have brown eyes but some of us have less melanin (which makes our eyes brown) so we have a lighter colour iris.
I'd recommend, as suggested above, just focusing on his nose if it distracts you.
A kid at primary school at one brown eye as normal, but his other eye which was split more or less vertically in half blue/brown. Didn't really notice it after a while at the time but thinking about it again now it was quite strange. Sectoral heterochromia, according to Google just now - pretty rare.Fun fact: we all have brown eyes but some of us have less melanin (which makes our eyes brown) so we have a lighter colour iris.
I'd recommend, as suggested above, just focusing on his nose if it distracts you.
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