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17 Apr 2014, 2:38 am

Black haired blue eyed autistic here.

What a silly question.

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17 Apr 2014, 3:02 am

Verdandi wrote:

I think that having blue eyes with autism can exacerbate certain visual sensitivities, such as photophobia:

http://www.ask.com/question/are-blue-ey ... e-to-light

To be clear, it's not a phobia.
The light HURTS.
Turning it down, being in the shade help relieve the pain.

I don't know if it's cause they're blue or because of autism or something else, but light hurts my eyes.
I'm not afraid of it though.

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17 Apr 2014, 3:16 am

Bodyles wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

I think that having blue eyes with autism can exacerbate certain visual sensitivities, such as photophobia:

http://www.ask.com/question/are-blue-ey ... e-to-light

To be clear, photophobia is called photophobia, but is not a phobia. It is:

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Photophobia is eye discomfort in bright light.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 003041.htm

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17 Apr 2014, 4:23 am

Verdandi wrote:

Bodyles wrote:

Verdandi wrote:

I think that having blue eyes with autism can exacerbate certain visual sensitivities, such as photophobia:

http://www.ask.com/question/are-blue-ey ... e-to-light

To be clear, photophobia is called photophobia, but is not a phobia. It is:

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Photophobia is eye discomfort in bright light.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 003041.htm

I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification, I sincerely appreciate it!

I still think it's a misleading term, though. :wink:

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17 Apr 2014, 4:50 am

I completely agree with you, and I totally screwed up not linking to a description and explaining it because I had exactly the same reaction you did when I first heard it.

The thing is that light sensitivity (which seems like a logical name) refers to more severe stuff:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitivity_in_humans

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17 Apr 2014, 5:15 am

i have solid blueish-grey eyes and i been told by many people that the colour is 'unique but beautiful'.

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17 Apr 2014, 6:37 am

Verdandi wrote:

Yeah, I remember this stuff now.
It's been a while.

Generally the term photosensitive is reserved for severe skin and/or allergic reactions to light.
The fact that I can't go outside on a cloudy day without sharp pains in my eyes doesn't qualify.

There are people who literally cannot go out during the day because the sun can burn & even kill them.
I remember reading about the condition, it's pretty nasty.

Still, you'd think they could come up with something that didn't sound like a fear of light to describe people who have sensitive eyes. :roll:

I mean, what do you call a person who's genuinely afraid of bright lights in that case?

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17 Apr 2014, 6:42 am

"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man behind blue eyes.
No one knows what it's like to be hated. To be fated to telling only lies." - The Who

A a lighter note, I've been told that my eyes are my best quality physically.
Once as a teenager, a doctor who had known me since I was little was shining a light in my eyes and jumped back exclaiming,
"Woah, your eyes sparkle!"

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17 Apr 2014, 8:35 am

Yes you can. I do, but my eyes are not pure blue. I call my eye colour seashore because they start with a sandy colour around the pupil, and fade out into greenish blue.

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17 Apr 2014, 8:37 am

I get the feeling you're a good ice skater, for some reason

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17 Apr 2014, 8:58 am

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You can also have two arms and two legs and still have autism; though I haven't heard of anyone having autism who had two heads.

No, but... there was that cyclops a while ago...

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17 Apr 2014, 10:53 am

ImAnAspie wrote:

TallyMan wrote:

You can also have two arms and two legs and still have autism; though I haven't heard of anyone having autism who had two heads.

No, but... there was that cyclops a while ago...

I'm sure that the cyclops was neurotypical.

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17 Apr 2014, 11:34 am

coffeebean wrote:

No, it clearly says in the diagnostic criteria that green eyes are a requirement. Don't be silly.

I've brown eyes, am I cured now?

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17 Apr 2014, 12:40 pm

Kiriae wrote:

coffeebean wrote:

No, it clearly says in the diagnostic criteria that green eyes are a requirement. Don't be silly.

Thats true. My eyes are green.
But they were blue when I was a child.... wait.... what does it mean? :roll:

Holy crap... the same thing happened to me! About the time I was in first grade my eyes turned from blue to green! I thought I was the only one!

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17 Apr 2014, 12:48 pm

honeyaureus wrote:

Kiriae wrote:

coffeebean wrote:

No, it clearly says in the diagnostic criteria that green eyes are a requirement. Don't be silly.

Thats true. My eyes are green.
But they were blue when I was a child.... wait.... what does it mean? :roll:

Holy crap... the same thing happened to me! About the time I was in first grade my eyes turned from blue to green! I thought I was the only one!

Many newborns have blue eyes and in some cases they change, some later, some earlier. It's actually more common than you might think. It also happened to my brother to change from blue to green. In my case I was born with borne eyes and still have brown eyes.

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17 Apr 2014, 1:24 pm

EzraS wrote:

When I was first brought in to be diagnosed, the first thing that they noted was that I do not have blue eyes. The second thing observed was that my hair is straight instead of curly. Then they read my palm. This is not a joke, I am dead serious.

That seems very strange to me. I don't see why your hair and eyes have to do with being on the Autism spectrum. Same with the palm of your hand.

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