Word: stereoblindness
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...claim may seem bold, but she has evidence to support it. Ruth, Livingstone said, was stereoblind, and so perceived depth differently from most people...
People who cannot do so are stereoblind, a state that is apparent when light reflects in different places in each of a person’s eyes. Photographs of the famous baseball player reveal this syndrome; his left eye wandered slightly from the center. The repression of depth perception in the “wall eye” leads a person to develop “hyperacuity” in the other so that “Babe’s stereoblindness may have been an asset,” Livingstone said...