The unique eye of autism

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this is very interesting

If I post a photo tomarrow will some one do this for me?

This is really noticeable with me.
I have a dominant right eye and lazier left eye.
I've been told by an optometrist that my eye muscles are weak.

I had amblyopia in my right eye as a child. My eye trailed outwards. Recently I had two occurrences when I felt a tugging in my right eye and my vision was distorted. It happened when someone I knew was nearby and I asked her to see what it looked like. She said my eye looked weak and was turning inwards. I don't know what's going on or if it's related to my past amblyopia. I was very surprised to read that amblyopia is neurological in origin. It was assumed when I was young to be muscular.

My two eyes are both exactly the same.

I wonder how this ties in with eye dominance. When I was little I was encouraged to start writing with my right hand, which felt right enough, but when I started shooting it felt right to shoot left-handed, which I still do. It's more natural to aim with your dominant eye, and in my case it's the left. A quick test is to hold up a finger and look at it, close one eye, then open it and close the other. When you close one eye, the finger looks like it moved, when you close the other, it appears to stay in the same place. If it stays put, that's your dominant eye.

One thing weird I can do with my eyes I found out once on mushrooms is completely at will focus them in any direction and i have the concentration i can now do this sober but it looks really really weird from the way everyone reacts when I do it.

I've noticed in many of my pictures, one eyelid is lowered more than the other. Or could it be the eyeball itself?

The thing is, the non-autistic people are looking directly at the camera for the most part, while the autistic people are not. The ones who are have results similar to the non-autistics. Coincidence?

I've had eye problems since I was a kid. When I was younger, I was far-sighted. I also had a brief scare where the doctor thought I might be developing glaucoma, and I had to see a specialist for a few months. But it turned out that I didn't have glaucoma.

Now I have astigmatism, and over the last several years I have become increasingly near-sighted, although I think all of the hours I spend reading and surfing the web have definitely contributed to the myopia.

I still need to remember to post a picture here

I'm officially diagnosed on the spectrum, and while my vision isn't too bad (I do wear corrective lenses but they are on the weaker side - I can get by without them and I just can't read some things), I have some peculiarities about my vision:

I can move my eyes independently.
What I mean by this, is that I can make one eye look left, the other look straight ahead, or up, or down, or right, whichever direction. The only thing I can't do is make each eye go to the far outside corner at the same time.

I have a bunch of visual disturbances.
This means things like visual snow, especially in dark areas, as well as VERY easily forming afterimages - any significant light source will give me one, even if I stare for just a moment. Same for high contrast colors on walls or in books, things like that. If I'm reading a screen that is too bright, or I'm reading a book with too much light, I will get afterimages of the lines that I'm reading, which overlap over what I'm reading, which at the same time is giving me more afterimages. This can make it very distracting to read.

Computer screens do it a lot - if I have the brightness turned up too much - like I have it now so that I can describe this part well - I get the text afterimages, and on top of that, I'm getting tons of afterimages, every time I move my eyes, from everything on the page - the borders, the blue and green box thing around forum posts and around this reply box, etc.

I also get tracers and things like that.

Hmmm...never thought about this. I just looked back through some pictures of myself. The only real noticable difference that I see is that when I make any "funny" face where I use my eyebrows to make an expression, my left eyebrow goes much higher than my right. They do not move in sync.

Last time I went to the eye doc, I had 20/20. I do have a lot of migraines that affect my vision though.

My eyes have slight asymmetry. My left eye is slightly more closed than my right but my left is much stronger.

My left eye is weaker than my right eye, and suffers from Strabismus. I had an operation when I was a child that made my left eye wander less than it used to, but it still isn't perfect. I can't see the 3D effect of movies, I can't see the Magic Eye puzzles, and my depth perception is not that great.

This is absolutely fascinating. I never even speculated that there may be a connection between this and ASDs.

Last edited by FishStickNick on 20 May 2012, 9:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have slightly better vision on my left eye than my right eye. I have photos of my eyes they kind of look uneven in shape heh.