Do Spectrumites have eye contact with themselves?

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I like mirrors...maybe a little too much....Flakey calls me a Canary...but I can def. relate to the not wanting to look in the bathroom mirror when there are other women in there...I get very nervous and get out as quickly as possible...

um...I can make decent eye contact with Flakey (my boyfriend) because he doesn't expect it of me....He doesn't like making eye contact with people much either...but is better at it than I am when it is required...

I did wear contact lenses for awhile so I had no choice but to do that. So yes of course I can. However I have had problems at times giving family members eye contact or generally didn't feel like looking at faces at all.

I find it difficult to give myself eye contact in the mirror.

I actually love staring at myself in the mirror. I spent about five minutes yesterday staring into my own eyes. I found them really nice and cool because they were like little gems which I had!

Depends on my mood.
I cannot look when other people are around as they tend to look too...what is it that when you are in a public bathroom looking in the mirror, doing your hair or whatever, anyone else standing there has to stare at you? I find that really offputting and tend to give up and leave.

I hate when I'm on the bus and people stare at me
makes me timid

I can't look at other people or photographs of other people I don't like to look at photographs of myself but I can look at myself in the mirror.

I just ran to the bathroom to try it out...and pretty much I can look at my eyes just fine. I do notice there's something slightly different or harder about looking in my eyes, but I'm not sure what. It sort of feels like there's pressure behind my eyes when I do it, and it is easier to just look somewhere else on my face. I'm not sure if that's because somehow some muscle is getting strained when I look at my eyes and it's just a physical strain from focusing a certain way? Or because of an AS thing? I don't know.

Just finished The Complete Guide to Asperger's... and it mentions something about the way people with AS look at people is different from NTs. Like for NTs, certain things light up differently, and for Aspies it's more like just looking at an object.

So I wonder if what you're describing stems from that? Like that part that's supposed to go "ah, human face!" and connect it to you dosen't activate, so it's just processing like any other object, creating a feeling of disconnection from what you're seeing?

I don't seem to have that. I don't pay much attention to myself other than making sure my hair is combed and whatnot, but otherwise I guess my brain is just going "yeah, that's you" most of the time.



Nope, not at all! That doesn't make you a bad person at all, though I do hope you try not to do that to yourself