lasik_what I saw

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I had Lasik done about 5 years ago. I went from 20/400 to 20/10 immediately after the surgery, but after a few months my eyes stabilized at 20/20.

I don't remember seeing anything but the light and the blurriness that came after the corneal flap was cut. However, I wasn't given the sedative before the surgery because I had no one to take care of me afterwards, which they required to administer the sedative. The only side effects I experienced afterwards were dry eyes, which went away after about 6 months, and halo/star images around light sources, which lasted about a year. I'd always seen those images, but they were more prominent after the surgery, then eventually diminished to pre-surgery levels a year later.

OK so now I have a question. If your vision was blurry before, did you have problems with eye contact? Did you have enough resolution before to be able to see the eyes, and if not, what effect did that have on your comfort with looking into people's eyes? I can defocus my eyes voluntarily when I am zoning out or if I'm looking at someone, and it's like being in my own area of comfortable fuzz, but it may seem like I am staring inappropriately when I do this. Part of the difficulty I have lies in not having good control about what I am projecting especially around strangers, and possibly giving people the wrong idea. Has the sharper vision caused a worsening of eye contact difficulty, or is it the same as it was before? How and why is this so?

^ Good question. I tend to 'de-focus' too. Since my vision before lasik was correctable with contacts there's not too much difference. Also, I am often oblivious to eye contact so I may not be aware of my own lacking in this regard. (To note that I am currently trying to increase my tolerance of eye contact since it's supposedly important).

But when I had to discontinue wearing my contacts, about 5 weeks prior to procedure, I REALLY had a hard time (especially with deciphering others). Although I did wear my coke-bottle thick glasses (sometimes, when I had to), this was visually different and hard to adjust. So I concentrated even less on looking at others.

When I had to switch to glasses (just before lasik), I slammed my hand in the car door! Mostly due to visual disorientation. Took my mind off what others might be thinking

Lasik might improve not only one's eyesight but also their perception of mind-reading-ness, which we, as Aspies, notably lack. So I'm told.

Well done on getting your eyes fixed, I think that you are brave going for laser eye treatment. It is expensive and I hate the idea of anything doing anything to my eyes.

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