Et--Cetera

Haha! Okay, so funny story. My school does this health seminar thing where you can get free samples, learn about nutrition, basically stuff for college students to survive. Anyways, the cops show up every year with the drunk glasses and my friend wanted to try them. I was standing off to the side and one of the cops comes up to me and starts chatting and then says, "holy shit! You have Nystagmus, is it natural?"

I told him yes and he calls over all of the other cops, about seven others, and they all take turns looking at my eyes. Apparently they use people with natural Nystagmus in field tests to trip the guys up because people who are drunk can get Nystagmus.

But, I've never been pulled over so...I don't know, to answer your question. Sorry for the HIMYM response.

Aww, thanks! That's super sweet of you.

There's a couple of different parts so I'm going to break it down, hope that's fine.

• It effects my night vision because if I'm tired/ overly stressed/ or sometimes sick my Nystagmus goes a bit faster. I have what my parents and I call a "resting point" where I can slow it down and I turn my head to about 1 o'clock and look out of the corner of my eye. I then drive like that.

• LED lights really mess with my eyes too. It's hard for me to focus on them and I have to blink a lot.

• If I'm wearing my contacts my Nystagmus will move them around and I have to blink to "reset" them into the middle of my eye.

*I guess I have a bit of a problem with depth perception. It's hard for me to see things like food/ balls flying at me for me to catch.

*I usually don't have a problem with focusing, and I am ace at staring contests because I don't have to blink as much.

I'm so glad that this made you feel better about yourself. I never knew what mine looked like either, that was one of the reasons why I made the video. When I told my mom she was like, "really? You've never seen it or noticed it?" It's odd how we perceive normal in everyone when for some, like us, it's not! You should film yours too, then you could see.

I find that a lot of people can but then they usually get a headache because they are stressing the muscles. It can cause damage, but if you haven't seen any you're probably fine (my genetics teacher and I discussed that a while ago).