"Look me in the eye"

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I love cannoli. There is an Italian restaurant here, that makes them with dark chcolate shavings and they are so incredibly good.

(forgive me for going off topic)

Eye contact is particularly unnerving, and makes taking in what the other communicant is saying, rather difficult!

Not so much now but when I was a child I heard it often.

I don't believe that if you don't do eye contact that your lying as the biggest liars are masters of eye contact.

Often, When I was at VR my caseworker's boss asked me to look at them when I was talking I often have eye contact issues.

From parents, teachers, doctors, therapists, and psychologists. I can never do it. However, I have been able to make eye contact with other autistics, siblings, and few close friends. Anyone else, barely sees what my eyes look like.

From parents, teachers, doctors, therapists, and psychologists. I can never do it. However, I have been able to make eye contact with other autistics, siblings, and few close friends. Those people can tell you what my eyes are like. Other autistics I know seem to struggle over this as well, but we can make eye contact, and I usually know what they are thinking so it's not so scary.

The maximum time I can maintain eye contact with someone I'm not close to seems to be about 5 seconds or so, and that's when I've made a conscious effort to maintain it. I just need to look anywhere, at anything else, just to sort of mentally reset. But I do notice a lot more detail in terms of facial expressions, or subtleties which would obviously go unnoticed if I were looking away.

Wish I could maintain it longer, but I always feel like I'm staring blankly and they'll notice.