Lazy eye is properly called amblyopia and is caused when each eye focusses differently, leading to the brain receiving two different images. After a while the brain shuts off one image, causing a decrease of sight in that eye.
For me it's my right eye. I didn't have a "squint" as a baby/toddler, so it wasn't picked up until I was about 5. It was too late to fully correct, so I still have poor, blurry vision from that eye. The eye is healthy, it's just the brain doesn't receive a clear picture from it.
I understand this condition is common in people on the spectrum. I've just found out about this, plus that I have two other conditions common in autistic people:
Hyperlexia - reading early and above the expected level
it is the same for me. I had trouble with the reading as the letters forming words was puzzling. They also scramble -to this day - but just as I write. Sometimes, by hard, I still write some of them backward at first and catch it once I see the word.
it is the same for me. I had trouble with the reading as the letters forming words was puzzling. They also scramble -to this day - but just as I write. Sometimes, by hard, I still write some of them backward at first and catch it once I see the word.
