A Matter of Form vs Function

[Yuri2356]

A Silly Little Hypothetical which I just came up with and thought I'd throw at you all:


Due to nonspecific medical reasons, you have lost one of your eyelids. The Eye itself has been unharmed, and the surrounding face is more or less normal, but it's quite clear from looking at you that you're missing that little flap of skin. So, you're faced with a choice:

A) Take your new disfigurement in stride, and carry on with life. You may need to deal with occasional odd looks and irritation, but your vision is fine, so why not use it?

B) Take up wearing something that conceals your lidless eye, sparing you a lot of social awkwardness but loosing the use of that eye while in public.


Which path do you take?


note: Option A still lets you take measures to protect your lidless eye (Goggles and such) so long as they are transparent, and Option B lets you Have your eye uncovered while in privacy.

 

[skadistic]

With my new found obsession of puting LEDs in everything for the hell of it I pick the LED option.


Edit to add I picked the comic relief option with 100% seriousness.

 

[The Ninja]

Leave it open, as long as I can have something over it to protect it.

The Ninja

 

[Nylan]

That would really, really burn. I'll go with the cover.

 

[Quiet Sound]

Can't go wrong with a monocle.

 

[Tee Kay]

Leave it open, rob a bank and pay for surgery to fix it.

 

[Perfection]

I'd leave it as is but heavily accent the other eye to draw attention away from the lidless one.

 

[Communisto]

Dude, its all about eye-patches

 

[Perfection]

No, it's all about Kubrick

 

[amadeus]

Sunglasses.

 

[Communisto]

No, it's all about Kubrick

Kubrick wearing an eye-patch

 

[Perfection]

Kubrick wearing an eye-patch

No, just Kubrick.

 

[History_Buff]

Well, your eye would likely become extremely dried out, and would likely be a medical issue.

But I'd just leave it exposed.

 

[randomthings]

I would rather have depth perception.

 

[Harbringer]

Leave it open, rob a bank and pay for surgery to fix it.

and then you drop a clip from your gun and fumble around for minutes trying to grab it on the floor becuase you keep reaching to short or to far, twould be hilarity

 

[Brighteye]

It depends which of my eyes.
I don't regard an eye patch as particularly normal, so I'd get odd looks whichever of the options I chose. If I had normal sight to start with, I'd probably go for the protection option and use it, as long as the protection wasn't too cumbersome.

You can have depth perception with one eye. There's a strange thing called perspective which helps.

 

[scy12]

Ask a doctor what will be the best solution for the Health of the eye and act , accordingly. The first concern will be the Health of the Eye and not aesthetics.

 

[JohnRM]

You're going to have to use something to moisten the thing every few minutes since the eyelid is partially responsible for doing that job. I suppose that, not for appearances, but for practicality, you'd have to cover it up.

 

[bhsup]

Eyepatch!

 

[StarWorms]

C. Have an operation to have either some skin put on my eye to replace the lost eyelid, or have an eyelid grown for me.

Can you imagine having to have your eyes open, without blinking all the time? It starts stinging like hell.