Are you ok (or ok-ish) with eye contact?

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This is the one thing that makes me wonder if I don't have aspergers. But I like the colors in peoples iris' =x

Yes. I'm perfectly ok with eye contact if I don't have to speak.

I am ok-ish with eye contact, I think. I make occasional eye-contact when I am talking to people but look away a lot as it is difficult to concentrate on both. I used to work behind the counter in a cafe and sometimes didn't look at the customers' faces all day (sometimes I'd serve people I knew without realising). When I'm listening I don't make eye contact much as it is distracting. I make eye contact but don't really hold it for more than a fraction of a second.

I'm very uncomfortable with it. I don't think I'll ever master it properly.

I hate it as well. I've found the advice about looking at the other person's nose or mouth while conversing with them quite useful.

It depends. Depends on who the other person is, how comfortable I am, what kind of mood I'm in etc. Sometimes it's perfectly OK (though I quite often don't really look at people when I talk to them) and other times eye contact is like trying to push the same poles of two magnets against each other.

I am not ok with eye contact I try to make I contact because it's seen as 'normal' however when the person looks at me back my eyes normally dart off somewhere. When I normally talk to someone my eyes are normally looking at the ceiling even in more comforting environments I don't normally look at people when I talk it's not that I'm trying to be rude....it's just how it is.

I actually have never had much issues with eye contact. Perhaps when I was younger but ever since 10th grade or so I'm really not bad at all with it. Actually, I enjoy looking at people's eyes for some reason.

Eye contact with total strangers is very uncomfortable for me. I worked in a coffee shop and disliked all the impatient customers and feeling like I had to force myself to make eye contact with them. I was afraid they would see in my eyes that I didn't like them.

I have less trouble making eye contact with people I know. I notice at my doctor's for example, when I am talking I always look down or away, but when he is talking, because he is saying something important and/or interesting, I can look him in the eyes pretty well.

If someone I know is saying something that doesn't interest me, I don't usually make eye contact. Like someone else said, it's not me trying to be rude, its just the way it is.

I'm not OK-ish at all.

Absolutely terrible with anyone who isn't family.

I don't like making eye contact at all, even with family. It just doesn't feel natural to do so.

I'm fine with eye contact now, but in the past I found no reason to do it.

I don't mind it... but I rarely end up with actual eye contact, since I often wear sunglasses. But if I don't have them on, I'm fine with it.

The thing with me and eye contact is that I tend to make others uncomfortable quite often. Suppose I got a certain "stare" to it, that goes with the rest of my expressionless face... people probably just dont'know what to make of it, lol.

i have found ways around it; my psuedo-eyecontact is at such a level that i need to tell someone what i'm doing and then still fake less proficiently before they have a chance to notice.

the only people that i can have true eyecontact with are those that i really trust; which are my parents and my girlfriend. all others i 'fake' with