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Readers' maudjaamarticles.com Health · Awareness · Personal Essay The Eye That Waited Eighteen Years Why every child who says "I can't see clearly" deserves an eye exam Sumair Ahmed Mahar Student, writer and self-publisher. Image source: the author's own fundus photograph, right eye. The dark, pigmented patch is the scar left by toxoplasmosis on the macula. I was 18 when a doctor finally gave a name to what my right eye had been telling me for years. The photograph above is the answer: a scar sitting on my macula, left by toxoplasmosis I was born with. The macula is the small centre of the retina that lets us read, recognise faces and see whatever we look at directly. Mine had been damaged since before my first breath, and nobody knew. I am 19 now. This article is not written for sympathy. It is written so that no child has to wait as long as I did. 0 → 18 Years between the day I was born with this scar and the day anyone found it. The sentence tha...