Which SA or ROTC denied your waiver?
Did you send additional info to DODMERB?
In general, refractive error between -8.00 and -10.00 are considered for waivers IF the rest of the eye exam is normal.
Two big things with head injury: 1) risk of seizures which are increased 2 years after the event and 2) cognitive impairment. If you continue to get good grades, score high on ACT/SAT, earn academic awards, etc then that helps to explain away any questions about cognitive impairment. If you haven't had any seizures by now, then your risk for getting a seizure in the future is just the same as mine (ie back to population baseline). What might have DQ'ed you permanently is the post-injury manifestations that lasted a few weeks.
Adjustment disorder is a reasonable diagnosis after a life-changing and traumatic event like parental divorce. It's reasonable to see it with other events like loss of job, loss of a close relative, paying for your kid to get into USC and getting caught, or even retiring. Usually, if you've gotten this once and the course was unremarkable, it's not an issue for entrance into the military.
Is it possible the SAs (or ROTCs) did not want to chase a waiver?
I met with a retinal specialist and a general opthamologist today. No retinal pathology. Did the whole 9 yards with scleral depression, axial length test, and corneal topography. Everything is good.
As for the concussion, I have not had a seizure in the past 3 years after the injury. I have had many tests to ensure that I do not have any cognitive or neurological impairment. I'm all good. I was cleared after two months since it is hospital policy to wait that long.
Adjustment disorder is indeed a reasonable diagnosis, however, I was only displaying one of the criteria listed in DSM 5 which is not enough to reach a diagnosis. This led to psychiatrists and doctors saying that I did not have adjustment disorder.
Great thing is that I was waived for ROTC, and talking to my RC it looks like my eyes were the main problem. He did submit a waiver on behalf. Do you have any tips for my opthamologist to better craft a letter for the surgeon general?