"The photo features me in 1989, smiling hopefully at the camera with a curtain of long brown hair covering about a third of my face. I'd practiced the look for weeks in my bedroom mirror with the goal of using my hair to cover my lazy eye in my annual school photo."
"When the prints came back a few weeks later, I was devastated. Not only had I failed to cover the eye with my hair, I had covered just enough of it to make it obvious that I was trying to hide it."
"I showed my mother and she told me I looked beautiful and immediately slid the picture into an 8x10 frame and placed it on the mantle in the dining room."
"Last month, I decided to start posting comedy videos to TikTok and Instagram. I had pursued a career in comedy writing and acting a decade ago and fell into a deep depression when I got knocked down by a series of rejections."
A childhood photo from 1989, intended to hide a lazy eye, unexpectedly went viral on social media, reaching over 20 million views. The photo, which was meant to conceal insecurities, instead highlighted them, leading to bullying. Despite initial devastation, the author’s mother praised the photo, but it was later hidden away. Years later, after overcoming depression and pursuing comedy again, the author shared the photo online, embracing the past and finding humor in it.
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