Do Aspies tend to have darker than average eyes?

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My eyes are blue/grey and quite pale. But, I have very large pupils, so from a distance they might look darker than they actually are.

Aspie people tend to have quite shiny/bright/alive eyes. Thats one of the things that trips my aspiedar.

ugh. eye color has nothing to do with asperger's.

You know what I do has something to do with asperger's? All-or-nothing, black and white, you're either with us or against us, rigid, blanket stereotype thinking. All aspies have this.

On another thread somewhere is says something about Aspies having brighter eyes.

Some WP members try to invent physical features to make Autistics look like they're born different. Autism really doesn't work that way. I physically look as normal as any other human being. Nothing stands out at all.

Eyed depends of eye colours of parents. If two parents have light blue eyes, is highly impossible that son can have dark eyes, because blue eyes are recessive to dark eyes, and two recessive genes can't give a dominant one.

Temple Grandin has blue eyes from what i remember. Mine are pure brown, my dad has brown eyes too, my brother has brown-greenish eye and my mom has blue-greenish eyes.

EVERYONE'S pupils are essentially black. Little light is usually reflected back, so the clear lens appears BLACK. I have known people with essentially BLACK, and certainly VERY dark brown, that WEREN'T autistic. A number of people on this board, including me, have LIGHT colored eyes. So NOPE! Eyecolor has NOTHING to do with autism.

A poll that someone posted yesterday showed a disproportionate percentage of blue eyes here... around 60 percent. Mine are hazel green.

Mine are light blue. I am quite the blue eyed white devil.

I've got greenish blue eyes. I don't think dark eye color correlates with autism. Dark brown eyes are a dominate feature in people. You might of known less Aspies with blue eyes because lighter eye color is a recessive feature.

Also note the variety of eye colors in this video...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGhDPhaRrc[/youtube]

Hi, Madao! Loved your video, Aspie Eyes-- I couldn't stop laughing! The eyes are the mirroir of the soul! Ours come in all different shapes , shades and sizes. Count me in with the blue-eyed crowd.

One thing I did notice was a larger than "normal" iris aperture in most of those images. A good deal of those photos were taken under a good light source, you'd think their irises would close a little more. Maybe that's what I'm seeing. Someone else posted here on this thread that they have unusually wider iris aperture under normal lighting conditions.

I for one don't like high light conditions. I sit here typing in the dark with only the monitor and a 60 watt bulb for company, and I try and avoid the sun as much as possible. It's too bright up there. I don't like certain warehouse stores for the same reason. All that extra florescent lighting.

I could see there being a link, I don't think it's genetic, I think it could just be an artifact of the syndrome. The eye's are a window to the soul so they say, but they're also part of your brain. I wish Ms. Grandin was here to chime in on this.

OR, I'm just seeing things... again. I do <3 all this feedback.

You mean the pupils? Having dilated pupils all the time would really explain light sensitivity for people with ASD. Normally pupils dilate in dim lighting to take in more light, and constrict in bright light to take in less light. Perhaps people with light sensitivities can't constrict their pupils properly in bright light so it's painful. (It's like when they dilate your pupils at the eye doctor. All light (especially sunlight) is blinding and painful for a few hours afterwards.) So it would make sense for you to say autistics have 'large dark eyes' if you're referring to the pupils and not eye color. I wonder if other autistic people have great night vision? I know I can see things very well in the dark with the only light source being the moon. : D

idk about that but their mouths are typically shaped similarly

my pupils can b pretty big. thats one of the reasons why teachers thought i was high all the time. another reason is the aspergers makes my voice sound REALLY stoned

M eyes shift between green and dark hazel. But I don't think they have anything to do with my Aspergers.

Yes, I am an r-tard. I do mean pupils. But pupils are just the opening your iris makes yes? So, but you're right, I chose the wrong noun. Well I noticed something was afoot, I blended the apparent color between the iris and the pupil, and noticed a darker "tone".

It's probably not true for all autistics, but I reckon there's something going on there for a good number of us. But I suppose that's already a known feature, what troubles me we don't know the mechanism that could be causing it.

I've delivered pizza for 14 years half of the time at night with no flashlight, my boss doesn't know how I do it. Cat's eyes.

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