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02 Jan 2015, 5:08 pm

I read that the siblings of autistics have unusual eye movements. While I don't look into others' eyes, I can look at my siblings, and it does seem slightly different from other neurotypcials.


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02 Jan 2015, 9:50 pm

If you don't look at the eyes of other neurotypicals, how can you tell that your siblings' eye movement is different?

It's known that autism is genetic, so it's very likely for siblings of someone with ASD to display autistic traits (Broad Autism Phenotype) that would explain the unusual eye movement.


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03 Jan 2015, 3:35 am

Stormtrooper wrote:
If you don't look at the eyes of other neurotypicals, how can you tell that your siblings' eye movement is different?

It's known that autism is genetic, so it's very likely for siblings of someone with ASD to display autistic traits (Broad Autism Phenotype) that would explain the unusual eye movement.


I don't think NT siblings of someone with ASD display any autistic traits.



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03 Jan 2015, 5:26 am

progaspie wrote:
I don't think NT siblings of someone with ASD display any autistic traits.


I didn't say NT, I said BAP - Broad Autism Phenotype. It's when someone isn't exactly NT, but not autistic either.
These are likely to have Social Anxiety, Expressive Language Disorder, or Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder, which involves difficulty regulating eye contact.


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