Can you be AS with eye contact?

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It's not an absolute; not like "Ah well that's that then: you looked me in the eye so you no longer have AS".
There are variations throughout and some aspects of AS may be really obvious and constant, while others not so obvious and variable in intensity.

I only give real eye contact to those who I feel I can trust and grown to like.

Other people think I'm giving eye contact when really I am staring at just their lips.

I'm shure you can. because if i remember correctly you only have to have 4/5 of the symptoms not pirticularly in any order

when are you traumatized?

I had to learn to fake it. I fake it all day at work, don't bother when I'm at home or with people I'm comfortable with. But I'm sure that if you meet the criteria it's not required.

~Kate

My autistic child has made eye contact since he was a baby just fine.

He now looks away to think which is the same thing I do, so he might have even just got that from me!

He is really very autistic, and very obviously so on a day-to-day basis. He makes good eye contact most of the time. Sometimes he'll forget and start a conversation facing the wall, but the problems are down to forgetting or multi-tasking, he obviously has never minded making eye contact.

Of course. It isn't a required trait.

Although my eye contact was poor when I was somewhat younger, I have now reached a point where I can maintain it to a level that seems 'normal'. The same would apply with body language in general, as far as my personal experience goes.