Vision

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I am very new here. Stumbled upon the description of Asperger's and was amazed that there was a name for my personality.

On the front page there is a blurb about UCLA and "Mirror Neurons".

My question is has it been considered that the nonverbal communication functions of the brain would not develop
if a child had undiagnosed poor vision?

Nobody noticed that I was 20/400 until 3rd grade. I didn't know anything was wrong but there is so much in my
early development that I missed. I never could see a chalkboard, or facial expressions. I was an only child
until 5 so I had no siblings to interact with.

In school I wound up in my own world. Lazy. Daydreamer. Dork. Under-achiever. One teacher called me
Ozone Mode. The eventual glasses only made things stereotypically worse. I was exiled to the periphery.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I am worriedabout myeyesight

This was already asked here. A LOT of people said they were nearsighted. SO? A LOT of people are. I was like the only far sighted person, but mine doesn't count, as I didn't become far sighted until like 35. Prior to that, my eyesight was NEAR 20/20.

As for hankpym, he should be worried about his eyesight, due to diabetes and an unstable environment.

very farsighted myself, but only in one eye. It corrected itself when i stopped wearing glasses during the summer. I still use glasses for detail work, say fixing a watch or something with small gears.

i spent so much time in front of the computer my vision is getting more and more short sighted.

Although I am shortsighted now in adulthood, in childhood my eyesight was tested (as was standard at particular stages of schooling for all children in my locality) multiple times and in every instance no physical vision impairment was found.

While I cannot speak for everyone with AS, I believe that there is a vision processing component to my condition. I often have extreme difficulty recognising objects that I am looking for and directly at for instance.

So while I agree that 'seeing' probably is a relevant factor (for at least some of us), I disagree that this is related to physical eyesight, but rather suggest the issue is the processing of the stimuli within the brain as it is/after it has been received from the eye (and indeed other sensory organs).