A time when you overcame a challenge.

I have overcome so many it's hard to try and pick one. I think my biggest challenge has always been my vision. Initially, I was born cross-eyed. But after a number of operations I was left with a lazy left eye and something the medical field calls amblyopia where the body readapts to how it uses sight. Since I was a child I've only looked at the world through my right eye. Yes the left eye has vision, but very poor at that and the main issue is that I do not control it 24/7. Some days it just has a mind of its own.

Since I was 4 I have been wearing glasses as an attempt to correct my vision. At 1 time, I even had to wear a patch on my good eye for a full year, forcing me to use my left eye, but to no avail, nothing really worked. My left eye, simply has been rejected by my body, forcing me to use my right eye only. As a vision impaired individual, I have worked very hard at teaching myself perspective, depth of field, distance,, perception of depth and learning how to drive or...