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Eye Contact

NAS77976

Hello all

I have a question about eye contact. I can make and maintain eye contact, and I remember someone telling me when I was younger that I need to make sure to "look the interviewer in the eye" when I went for interviews. Which is one of my reasons for suspecting I am autistic rather than socially anxious. I don't like eye contact, I do not understand why people feel connected by eye contact.

I've been paying attention to this recently and I have noticed that when I look people in the eye, their eyes dart all over the place. Does anyone else recognize this? I wonder if my eyes are darting around and they are trying to follow or it's just something I'm picking up on.

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  • This is an on and off obsession for me recently. I am trying to hack into it's secrets. When I'm trying to do it I tend to look at one eye and then the other, not sure which to focus on, noticing if there's been surgrey or if the iris has spots, the pattern of the lashes. Sometimes people say one thing and the muscles around their eyes tell another and it make me quite agitated and so I look away. I have asked some NT friends to experiment with me on it. One friend says its that right eye "rules" the left side of brain and left eye "rules" the right side so there may be something to that and how it signals. Experimenting on that.

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  • This is an on and off obsession for me recently. I am trying to hack into it's secrets. When I'm trying to do it I tend to look at one eye and then the other, not sure which to focus on, noticing if there's been surgrey or if the iris has spots, the pattern of the lashes. Sometimes people say one thing and the muscles around their eyes tell another and it make me quite agitated and so I look away. I have asked some NT friends to experiment with me on it. One friend says its that right eye "rules" the left side of brain and left eye "rules" the right side so there may be something to that and how it signals. Experimenting on that.

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