Dyspraxia - are you clumsy? + vision problems

Yes but - if I play 3D Mahjong religiously every morning till I hit a certain score for reflexes, and I practice hopping and balancing on one then the other leg for balance  and it gets better. My senior exercise class instructor also helps us with that. I have Meniere's in the left ear. I am not clumsy in the hands, just slower than average (hence the Mahjong).

I am legally blind on the right from un-diagnosed lazy eye. So will bump into anything on that side and must be especially careful when crossing streets.

Uhane said:

I am legally blind on the right from un-diagnosed lazy eye. So will bump into anything on that side and must be especially careful when crossing streets.

I have a lazy eye too, so maybe that's partly why I bump into things so much.

I believe the official term is amblyopia and there is a link with autism. According to this article more than half of children with autism had some form of amblyopia compared to children without autism

I had surgery on it when I was very young but I guess that wasn't successful. I also remember having to wear a patch over my good eye for large parts of my early childhood, in an attempt to force my brain to use the lazy eye. That didn't work either, as the only time I ever use that eye is if my good eye is completely covered. Numerous opticians have commented on the instantaneous switch that my brain does when my good eye is covered. 

That is fascinating, the switch! I want to experiment with that!! That is also fascinating about the stats of ND peeps with this condition! As I age the weak eye is improving ever so slightly too, not that it plays nice wit the dominant left one.

How can the eye doctor tell if you are "switching tracks" as it were?

I am so fascinated by your experience. Let's PM about it if you are uncomfortable doing so here an would also like to. thanks for this - This will go on the 3 goods things list today!

I was told, by a recent study group of eye doctors doing an experiment to reverse the condition, that if it is not caught within the first 3.5, 4 years it is too late. I had the infernal patch for over a year at 5-6yrs old while in first grade with no special accommodation.  Already the most kick-able kid around, I got tripped up a lot to howls of glee, and got the '3 eyes' moniker.

Maternal unit, when noting the failure to improve after one year of "good money spent", declared that I had cheated as the reason: par per for maternal unit.

yes I saw some of those, ehem, "comorbidities".

I also get the double vision when I tired and the lazy one wanders off, I can bring it back to heel but it's a signal I need to rest my eyes or sleep.

All very interesting.

I'm pleased to hear your 'bad' eye is improving. I had sort of assumed that mine would get worse through lack of use but I'm not sure. 

Currently the sight in my weaker eye isn't too bad. Everything is blurred but I can still read the top few lines on the opticians chart with corrective glasses. Perhaps all that patch treatment as a child actually did help and the sight on that eye would have been worse without it. I used to get double vision when I was younger, so at that stage my brain was still trying to use both eyes.  

Alas it still doesn't point ahead, it only moves if my stronger eye is closed or covered. That really only happens during an eye test or if I'm testing my vision myself. Otherwise it's pointing off to the side and not really doing anything. 

I have been doing more research into the link between autism and eye problems. I'll post some of my findings on the other thread you started, hopefully tomorrow.

I'm pleased to hear your 'bad' eye is improving. I had sort of assumed that mine would get worse through lack of use but I'm not sure. 

Currently the sight in my weaker eye isn't too bad. Everything is blurred but I can still read the top few lines on the opticians chart with corrective glasses. Perhaps all that patch treatment as a child actually did help and the sight on that eye would have been worse without it. I used to get double vision when I was younger, so at that stage my brain was still trying to use both eyes.  

Alas it still doesn't point ahead, it only moves if my stronger eye is closed or covered. That really only happens during an eye test or if I'm testing my vision myself. Otherwise it's pointing off to the side and not really doing anything. 

I have been doing more research into the link between autism and eye problems. I'll post some of my findings on the other thread you started, hopefully tomorrow.

yes I saw some of those, ehem, "comorbidities".

I also get the double vision when I tired and the lazy one wanders off, I can bring it back to heel but it's a signal I need to rest my eyes or sleep.

All very interesting.