Sensitive to visual movement?

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One of my biggest sensory problems is seeing movement. I can't look at spinning, swinging, or rocking objects without feeling sick and dizzy. Does anyone else have this problem? This has caused major difficulties for me (in 6th grade I refused to go to school for several days because there were swinging objects hung from the ceiling in the classroom. I was prescribed medicine for motion sickness but it didn't help, so the objects were taken down). I've never known anyone else to be affected this strongly and in such a negative way by just watching objects move. I can't look at swing sets, rocking chairs, ceiling fans, etc. Even someone just shaking their foot bothers me

I dunno if this applies to this particuar question or not, but whenever I see people lean over a railing, and it's a LOOONG way down--for instance, in the old Shea Stadium on the ramps leading down and someone was up in the Mezzazine leaning over the rail, or when I'm looking down, I feel a sickening lurch in my stomach, as though I was actually falling down. What means I have no idea, but I imagine it's having something to do with sensitivity to either motion or visual-spatial sensitivity or something like that.

I have problems like that from lightening on TV, flashing lights, and other things. Not good when a favorite show is Star Trek. The phasers are hard to watch. But I read it and when I really want to watch it I do it anyway.

But I also have epilepsy so it might be from that more than AS. And I don't think it's as severe as yours. I hope someone here relates to the severity you are describing since I know how it feels to need someone who understand completely.

I know how frustrating it can be since you can't predict every movement you will see.

It may only be slightly related but I was watching a youtube of an aspie guy the other day when he started vigorously rocking his chair and I felt the stimmy feeeling just watching him. Very strange.