Marc,
"they haven't mentioned any problems..."
Good - I like that! Please note that I in no way wanted to invent concerns unnecessarily! If they think yours is a non-problem, that is a lot better than any alternative.
"... my
particularly busy optician who wasn't interested..."
<siiigh> Yes. I must sympathise with both parties. But where I come from we do get a chance to talk to doctors, even ophthalmic surgeons. No doubt I have been spoiled.
"...it would seem more people than I previously thought have a similar
condition."
That certainly is true.
Now, as for the rest, please understand that everything I said and shall say is handwaving and generalisation.
"As far as being a a genetic chimera go, I was a twin could
this have any reference?"
It could. <handwave... handwave...>
It certainly need not, but at about the time of the first cell and embryonic divisions and multiple implantations, is when chimerism might well set in. If your twin is fraternal, that does at least mean that at least one extra zygote was around (after all it did implant, or you could not have had that twin!)
If there was another zygote united with yours, Bob's your uncle. Or whatever... You would never know it unless you took some rather advanced and no doubt costly genetic tests to establish it. After all, the condition is not generally bad news or anything (unless you had for years been hankering after another brother!)
And don't go getting all resentful of your notional (and hypothetical) brother, for goodness' sake! Which one of you would you blame...? :-) Remember, never mind the genetic facts, you are just one person.
"...also a bout of measels when I was young has
caused a significant level of deafness"
Hard luck on that one!
"could this also of affected my sight in this perculiar way?"
(Still handwaving frantically) certainly. Measles can affect eyesight. It can cause blindness. I don't minimise the harm that your ears suffered, but as you can tell, there was worse that could have befallen. Much as spots affect some parts of your skin tissues rather than others, it is quite possible for only one eye to get hit. Virus bloweth where it listeth. When I got mumps I got it on one side only. It is quite possible that cones on one side got damaged somewhat before your immune system gained proper control and saved the other eye from harm.
But yet again, this is speculation.
Sorry!
Jon