Do you wear glasses?

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I'm short-sighted, and I've had glasses since I was ten.

I attend a popular social group for people on the spectrum, and I'd say that around half of the service users wear glasses.

I have been wearing glasses since I was about three and a half years old. I have a lazy eye and bad astigmatism.

Distance glasses since my late 20's

No.

I've been wearing glasses since I was about 10 or 11. My eyesight isn't too terrible though, so they're mostly reading glasses. I just wear them 24/7 because if I didn't, I'd forget to put them on when I needed them, and they'd be pointless. Because I can still see fairly well, I sometimes switch my glasses out with non-prescription lightly tinted ones, which help alleviate the sensory overload I get when exposed to fluorescent lights for long periods.

astigmatism right eye, otherwise 20/40. I must wear sunglasses out-doors if it is bright-cloudy or sunny, am light-sensitive.

Age 7 or 8 I had to start wearing glasses as I couldnt see the blackboard in class. I wear contact lenses about 65% of the time, glasses the rest. If I am doing something special or meeting somebody who I consider important, like my mum, or an interviewer, I will wear my contact lenses as I hate what I look like wearing my glasses and it plays on my mind that I look like a mole.

I was misdiagnosed with astigmatism at age 10. Because during that time, my complaint isn't about my eye sight, it's the eye itself having random sharp pains (Even until now, it still happens in rare occasion for unknown reasons). And, I wasn't paying attention during the test.

Then, diagnosed with nearsightedness at 15. Mainly because my eyes are close up on the monitor for 12 hours a day, for the last 18 months straight.


I only wear my glasses when I needed it. I'm not used of wearing glasses for straight 3 hours without getting any discomfort. Nearsightedness doesn't bother me in general... For now.

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Yep -worn them since I was 11 - astigmatism

Yes. I am short-sighted and I think I have astigmatism too. I should have been wearing glasses from about the age of 11 - I didn't want yet another thing that would make me a target - but didn't until I started to drive and realised vanity would be a pretty stupid reason to have an accident. My eyesight grew steadily worse until about three or four years ago when it finally began to settle down. I've been able to keep the same prescription since then, although I have had to add reading glasses to my collection of visual corrective aids.

I don't think needing to wear glasses is particularly prevalent in autistic people though. Short-sightedness is a very common condition.

Wearing glasses has nothing to do with Asperger's

I don't know too many people who have 20/20 vision. Most PEOPLE seem to wear either contacts or glasses, especially after the age of 40.

The vast majority of children, on the other hand, under the age of 5 do not wear glasses; it's rare to find a toddler in a stroller wearing glasses.

I would say many kids, when they are around 12, start wearing glasses.

Yep. I started wearing glasses when I was five months old. I'm farsighted and have had two eye muscle surgeries.