Category Archives: Reviews & guest posts
My Travelin’ Eye: book review
My Travelin’ Eye by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw “When I was born, I came out looking both ways.” That’s how Jenny Sue begins her beautifully illustrated children’s book, My Travelin’ Eye. She writes, draws, and colors her “own experience as a … Continue reading
New northern California strabismus support group
Yesterday I shared Susanna’s story. Her photo here shows her wearing prism glasses as part of her home vision therapy. Susanna is currently organizing a northern California strabismus support group. You can read more about this in Susanna’s words below. … Continue reading
Susanna, the One Eyed Princess
Susanna was born with strabismus in the former USSR. The photo below is “of me in 1979 in Russia with a play phone, where you can see that my eyes were really crossed,” she writes. Susanna is a speaker, world-traveler, … Continue reading
No excuses
You’ve probably heard of 19-year-old Kyle Maynard, a congenital amputee who became a champion wrestler. The part of Kyle’s story that struck me most is this:
…his grandmother refused to let other people look away from him.
“She brought me to a lot of grocery stores and she’d set me down in the cart. She told me, ‘You don’t have to be afraid of people. Look them straight in the eye and let them know that you see yourself as normal, and that’s the way that they should perceive you, too.’ “
To me, this grandmother was right on track. Children with a turned eye need to be helped in this way also. Continue reading