Autism and visual processing

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Is this image at all similar to what you experience?

http://aspergeraide.com/

Yeah, that is moderately similar, It has the dream like feel to it.

I am not versed in that language, what is the picture implying?

This could have something to do with being overly sensitive, or under sensitive to light. Are you OP?

Ever since I can remember I have had problems with light sensitivity. I used to wear sunglasses in class because the lights would make me feel sleepy and give me very bad eye strain. Same thing with computer screens, I have to have the lights off in the room and the monitor at %50 brightness to be able to use the computer. I have had my eyes tested many times over this and every specialist says they are perfectly healthy. I even went to get my sinuses checked out because I thought it could be a sinus problem around my eyes. Fluorescent lights are the worst and I was so happy when they replaced CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) in LCD monitors with EL-WLED (White LEDs). After this I could use a computer screen better but not with the lights on. Also I get bad eyestrain when scanning a shelf full of detail at the store. Its like an overload of detail and color and I have to close my eyes to reset them. This happens with focusing sometimes also. I do have light colored eyes and larger than normal pupils but even then I shouldn't suffer this much Shocked I also notice my experience of color is quite vivid, especially neon colors, they look almost alien. Red cars are vibrant and the saturation of everything it seems is unusually heightened. This might explain why I love cartoons, colorful games, scenery and large vistas. I know these are autistic traits and I wish to know if anyone else shares my pain Sad

Anyone the same Question

Yes I have problems with light sensitivity, see the thread I made

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp5147712.html

I understand a little of what you are saying.

I wouldn't describe it that way. Perhaps I do not deal with the same thing that you experience. However, I only see the little details, or notice them first, before seeing a big picture (if I see it at all). It's as if you put a magnifying glass over my eye and I see all these tiny, tiny details. I have to really step back and de-focus my eyes to see any kind of larger picture.

It came out when I took a block design part of an IQ test. It took me forever to make the design because I had to look at it 1/4 by 1/4, and I couldn't see the whole design.

Is that what you are describing?

I read something on sensory processing disorder, which said that when you're seeing too much light, some people are unable to process it all, so your brain doesn't take everything in normally. Making things look distorted.

Please tell me if that doesn't make sense .

I have this profound problem and I think it is related to autism.

My entire life I have struggled with the feeling that there is something wrong with my perception of the world. As in a lack of clarity, like looking through the bottom of a coke bottle, like looking through a veil. I can best describe it as a chronic dreamlike state, a disconnect from the world with everything around me looking perpetually surreal. Here's the catch though, There is nothing wrong with my eyes, no damage to them, no illness. When inspecting my vision there appears to be nothing wrong. I am flip flopping back and forth trying to figure out if this is indeed an issue with my eyes or some kind of visual processing defect caused by autism. It is chronic, it is always with me.

What is this?

That partially makes sense, I could see how too much light could make things dreamlike and over saturated (Vivid colors). Do you have a link?

I have the same thing, and it was identified by an optometrist as something called Accommodative Dysfunction and Binocular Vision Disorder. Basically, I have trouble processing the 3D world, and so this causes psychological manifestations similar to what you experience.