eye-dominance=way of thinking?

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I look naturally from the right side to the left side instead the other way around, how it actually should be.
From this thread [http://www.wrongplanet.net/postx157848-0-0.html] I did the "Raven's Progressive Matrice Test" today [http://iqtest.dk/main.swf] and at a certain moment I realized, that I would always start looking at the matrices from right to left, too, as I do it in everyday life naturally with the enviroment.

So now I wonder if it is maybe something "spectrum-typical" (although it might come close to ask, if right- or left-handness is something of the spectrum) or if it is just coincidentally without any further links to something. What is weird is, that scientific research shows, that when you start reading, you read from left to right, you do it with your left eye, so your right hemisphere is working. Right hemisphere means reading body-language, spontanity, reading "pictures", Intuition, feelings, playing, taking risks etc. Left hemisphere means ratio, logical thinking, focussing on one point, analysis, detail etc. But: In the western culture you are made to start reading from left to right.
But: There are cultures, who read from right to left contrary to the western ones.

Do you have any experiences/ thoughts about it?

Could it be something with a link to the autism-spectrum, as reading body-language, spontanity, playing etc. are not the strongest points?

Studies have shown that NTs look at the left cheek more than the right cheek to assign emotion to facial expressions.

Thank you, btbnnyr. This is interesting. I will try to find some studies about it.
When I did the dx-testing it also showed, that I interpret the pictures beginning from the right side, as I had to explain every step I was undertaking = my way of thinking, how I came to the results that I got.

Any other experiences?

If I recall correctly, then the studies also showed that autistics did not show a preference for the left cheek, as NTs did.

Also, there is a greater proportion of autistics with "wrong"-sided language lateralization, with the expected pattern of activation during language tasks in the right hemisphere rather than the left hemisphere. One hypothesis was that the language lateralization in the right hemisphere superseded the areas or connectivity required for social cognition, and this caused deficts in social cognition.

Thank you, btbnnyr. Today I could not do a lot of research about it, because I had a different planning, but I guess I found now a link to my difficulties reading a text, because while reading I have the "from-right-to-left"-tendancy as well and already in school I could just get lost when I had to read a text or as homework, so I kept "hanging" on one sentence and I guess it comes from "knowing" left to right, but falling back into my natural pattern, so it is like a record, which is stucked at one point and inbetween I just get lost.

I am left-handed, I am left eye dominant for most things, but I always prefer to face turning towards the right and sitting/sleeping where a wall/barrier is on my right-hand side.

Thank you, OddDuckNash99. My left eye is also the more dominant one, but focussing to the "wrong" side. But I am right-handed, but like btbnnyr wrote in another thread, I also have no "fixed" handwriting, it is changing every time I write something and like btbnnyr I never know in advance, which one will show up.

I don't read that way, or look that way asfaik. Maybe because I've been reading English all of these years, I don't know.

BUT, eye dominance is directly linked to the way the brain is wired, as id hand dominance and many on the spectrum are left handed.

My eye is lazy, naturally. I had an operation that took care of the cosmetic aspect but I am still more dominant in the right eye, I guess this means my left brain is underactive (but I am more skilled with technical things and not artistic at all).

Their left or the other persons left? (assuming they are facing each other)