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I Was Deeply Ashamed of My Eighth-Grade Photo. Then It Went Viral And Millions Of People Saw It.
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“I thought that if I could hide it just once, maybe people would see me and think of me as something more.” The author's eighth-grade school photo, which went viral in 2024 The author in 2018, two weeks after her sixth — and final — eye surgery. Liz Brown is a mother, writer, and comedian living in Los Angeles and Northfield, Vermont. She is currently working on a memoir about spending 40 years unable to make eye contact because of her lazy eye. You can follow her on Instagram and TikTok. This article originally appeared on HuffPost in December 2024.