Vision "errors"

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When I am staring at something (for example distant object), my vision starts to go crazy. I can see colors changing, things or objects move that should not move and sometimes vision goes little bit blurry. When I had same thing with close view, side walk started to move a lot, went half invisible.

Sometimes I change words or numbers too much, for example in Steam: I was looking at card nr 1 and it price was 0.05 euros, but instead of that I saw card nr 5 that had price 0.05 euros. Sometimes I change completely whole word: Southern California -> Southern Carolina. I didn't realize these mistakes until I checked the card price or heard the correct word.

Is this an effect of synasthesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia)?

My own synasthesic effects include sometimes seeing and hearing mentally the word ?blue? when writing or reading the number ?2,? the lower-case letters ?b? and ?d,? and the upper-case letter ?L? since childhood. In fact, I thought it was strange that most others don't experience it, too (the presumption used to be my own wacky flavor of normalcy bias).

Your misspelling might also be a dyslexic effect. The two experiences are believed to be related.

Anyone can change the way something appears by squinting their eye's, and adjusting them in different ways. For example, if you squint your eyes at a bright light, you should see lines sometimes with rainbow colours. Also, if you cover one eye, uncover it, then cover the other eye over and over again, the image should just shift a little. This is usually normal unless there is something else to you're situation. If it is concerning you, It would probably be a good idea to get your eyes checked if you haven't recently.

This thing with reading happens to me too. I think that it is caused by occasionally reading faster then I should. In my case, being autistic causes me to need more time when concentrating on something. This could be the same reason for you too, or it could be related to your vision.

I have Amblyopia, so one of my eyes usually stays inactive. However, when I try to make it work, I start seeing double, I can see through stuff, replace words, and all that stuff.

I don't think so. I can't see or hear any color when I am writing, my imagination is very bad.


My reading in Latin letters is very good compared to Slavic letters. I can read out loud 1 page of text several times longer than it takes for others. I can see letters clearly but it is hard for me to name them. When I was younger, my (Latin letters) reading was slower than others, about 200 letters a minute. When I hear a word and have to type it, I often type it like I can hear it or I have remembered how to write it (for example English words).

i have stuff like that

Funny, for me, all those graphemes you listed are a shade of blue?with the exception of 'd'. But for me it includes both upper and lower case. (B/b is dark blue, [though 'b' looks a tad bit lighter], L/l is light blue, 2 is light blue but not quite as light as 'L'.)

I don't believe I have the problem OP describes, though sometimes I might mix up '3' and '5', since they're both similar shades of red. But usually that just happens when I'm trying to recall a memory; I might recall that the number was red but not remember whether it was '3' or '5'.

I do this a lot...words turn into completely different words. Sometimes I read an entire phrase or sentence wrong. It usually only happens when I have glanced at something isolated, like a road sign or magazine ad.

It sounds like issues with visual processing and/or dyslexia. I have the same problems. More recently I discovered that my difficulties could mostly likely be due to scotopic sensitivity syndrome, also known as Irlen Syndrome. Autism can cause visual processing difficulties as well. It doesn't sound like synesthesia to me.

I honestly think that autism, Dylexia, scotopic sensitivity, sensory processing disorder, and synesthesia all are related and interconnected. There are theories that all these disorders are due, at least in part, to connections between areas of the brain that should not ordinarily be connected and/or the lack of connections between areas of the brain that should be connected.