Eyesight with people with AS

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I wonder... is it the ability to actually see, or is it the ability to process (i.e. visual cognition)? I've heard of some who apparently can spot really detailed things in a sea of other things... like one four-leafed clover in a sea of three-leafed clovers. That's not eyesight, per se, but cognition.

Granted, it probably requires good vision to begin with to be able to do that...

Study referred to in this thread: Enhanced Visual Acuity in Autism Spectrum Conditions

I am short-sighted, but have excellent underlying visual acuity, as does my father, also somewhere on the spectrum.

As a child, I always surprised people conducting eye exams, to the extent where the tester often got a new chart (apparently suspected me of using memory because they thought no one should be able to read that far down the chart).

I am short sighted now and when I got my last glasses script they tested my corrected vision and it is still exceptional and surprised the person conducting the exam.

This is consistent with the study referred to by DentArthurDent.

I have (or had for most of my life) the same prescription as my father, from whom I also presumably got my AS. Very near-sighted, rather astigmatic. Lucky me, I have cataracts already and macular degeneration to look forward to from my mother's side. And ocular rosacea from my maternal grandmother.

Please note the following sentence describing the participants in the Methods and Materials section: "All participants were screened for any pre-existing optical conditions and all had normal or corrected vision." (emphasis mine)

What this tells me is that the researchers were not specifically looking for whether or not their participants had a higher or lower prevalence of myopia, astigmatism, etc. but rather for whether there is a difference in their visual acuity-- in other words, when all things are equal and even with corrected vision, do people on the autistic spectrum tend to pick out and retain more or less detail than their non-autistic counterparts.

My vision has been terribly myopic since childhood, however, with correction, I do tend to pick out details others miss with a fair amount of accuracy. I'm also very good at matching colors exactly -- a real plus when I was dying shoes for a living for a short time! I was the only person in the shop who could mix color matches from a customer's swatch and get it exactly right on the first try.

Regards,

Patricia

I do have good acuity with glasses and pick out a lot of details that others miss. I could however walk into the broad side of a barn while marveling at the patterns in its peeling paint

I have terrible vision.
I have Astigmatism.
I also have Infantile Estropia (a form of Strabismus)

I don't know if it has anything to do with AS, but I have a -10.0 on each eye.....I know BAD LOOOL but I wear contacts so it doesn't look (no pun intended) that I have bad eyesight. LOL

I have had to wear glasses since age 9. Two of my sisters also got diagnosed with myopia and astigmatism. I have one lazy eye, also have had a history of Uveitis in both eyes.

I had good vision until 16, when things started going a bit fuzzy. It hasn't gotten really bad though.

I had wonderful eye sight but not powerful enough to see lights flicker when no one else can see it and then my eye sight got bad when I was 18 and needed glasses.

I am near sighted.

I used to have *incredible* eyesight. It's been slowly degrading after continued computer use. Now, after 5 years, it's actually noticeable.

I have fairly good eye sight but my left eye is lazy and looks crossed all the time.I can see good overall because my right eye compensates for my left eye's deficiencies.I have had several surgeries when I was small but now I dont require glasses because my eye specialist says my overall vision is good enough.I was even allowed to get my drivers license because my overall vision is good.

Bit funky here.

I should probably have inherited bad near-sightedness from kindergarten-age on from my parent/family, but I had extreme sharp vision until my pre-teen and teens when environmental factors/extreme near-sight work triggered/caused bad near-sightedness.

Eye doctors do not believe it and say I can't have normal/better than average vision as child because of my family's history. Very annoying.

Good eyesight, but not exceptional though. I can see really really tiny details when I focus on them close up though.