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
Interesting, is alexythemia inability to identify my own emotions or someone else’s? In my case it took my years to identify emotions that I had as a kid and young adult. And I still struggle to identify my current emotions even if they are too strong or too many and I get somehow overwhelmed and cry, I still can’t say, why. But When someone tells me directly what they feel and their situation, I have no problem to understand and literally feel their emotions like my own. What a strange phenomenon… I also had lazy eye. And my speach development was weird. I was fully non verbal till I turned 3. One day suddenly a miracle happened- I started talking with full sentences and then I was often told that I was more mature and articulate for my age. Currently when I focus my eyes, I see super sharp and plunged, but when I’m tired I lose focus and then everything is blurry. I’m not sure if these things are related to autism or it’s just me. Maybe someone else can relate.
Interesting, is alexythemia inability to identify my own emotions or someone else’s? In my case it took my years to identify emotions that I had as a kid and young adult. And I still struggle to identify my current emotions even if they are too strong or too many and I get somehow overwhelmed and cry, I still can’t say, why. But When someone tells me directly what they feel and their situation, I have no problem to understand and literally feel their emotions like my own. What a strange phenomenon… I also had lazy eye. And my speach development was weird. I was fully non verbal till I turned 3. One day suddenly a miracle happened- I started talking with full sentences and then I was often told that I was more mature and articulate for my age. Currently when I focus my eyes, I see super sharp and plunged, but when I’m tired I lose focus and then everything is blurry. I’m not sure if these things are related to autism or it’s just me. Maybe someone else can relate.
