As an optometrist, we come across patients who have one eye that has trouble seeing the big"E" even when wearing their glasses or contact lenses. This could be due to problems at birth, disease or trauma. Many patients feel the eye is of no use to them.
Just because a patient has diminished central vision, doesn't mean the patient doesn't make good use of peripheral vision. Secondly, this eye could aid in depth perception.
I had a patient today who had a lazy eye all his life. I was able to show him how much better his depth perception was with both eyes opened as compared to his closing his lazy eye and trying to do a task that required depth perception.
He was quite happy as for the first time, he now realized how much vision the lazy eye was contributing to his visual well being.
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