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12 Jul 2012, 2:22 pm

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Has anyone else got farsightedness? My optician told me I was very young to have it. I was told this about 14 years ago.

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12 Jul 2012, 2:54 pm

Yeah, I have it. I've always had it a little. Why do you want to know?



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12 Jul 2012, 2:57 pm

Mindsigh wrote:
Yeah, I have it. I've always had it a little. Why do you want to know?


I think it's trait of Aspergers and ASD people. This cross my mind today after reading what a German optician was saying.



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12 Jul 2012, 3:13 pm

What did that optician say exactly?

I sincerely doubt that far-sightedness is a (general) trait of autism/AS. A quick google search also turned up nothing on a special relationship between far-sightedness/hyperopia and autism or even between presbyopia (decreased clarity of near sight that's most commonly found in adults around age 40 and onwards) and autism.


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12 Jul 2012, 4:20 pm

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What did that optician say exactly?

I sincerely doubt that far-sightedness is a (general) trait of autism/AS. A quick google search also turned up nothing on a special relationship between far-sightedness/hyperopia and autism or even between presbyopia (decreased clarity of near sight that's most commonly found in adults around age 40 and onwards) and autism.


I read it somewhere, but I think there's a link, and it's an interesting thought.



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12 Jul 2012, 4:46 pm

I am slightly nearsighted, actually. I need glasses to read text on a blackboard or powerpoint. Probably from staring at a computer screen so long.



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12 Jul 2012, 4:52 pm

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I am slightly nearsighted, actually. I need glasses to read text on a blackboard or powerpoint. Probably from staring at a computer screen so long.


I guess not everyone has the same eye problems,mine started at i think about 23-25, but was diagnosed later.



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12 Jul 2012, 4:59 pm

Both my children are farsighted. The eldest was diagnosed at 3 and a half years old and is quite badly affected. The younger one got diagnosed at just 2 years old. I got him tested because it often runs in families. His isn't as bad because he started wearing corrective lens at an earlier age.

I have never heard that it is unusual to get farsightedness at a young age and I know several other children with it. I have been told that most babies are born farsighted but in the majority it resolves itself as the eye grows. I have never heard of it being linked to autism before.



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12 Jul 2012, 5:00 pm

davidgolfpro wrote:
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I am slightly nearsighted, actually. I need glasses to read text on a blackboard or powerpoint. Probably from staring at a computer screen so long.


I guess not everyone has the same eye problems,mine started at i think about 23-25, but was diagnosed later.


I got my glasses when I was 18 or so, just before I went to uni. I don't need them in everyday life, just for reading from a distance. My eyes are also slightly oval in shape instead of a perfect circle, apparently, which is fairly common.



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12 Jul 2012, 5:03 pm

I am farsighted, though I rarely use my glasses unless I am reading books.



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12 Jul 2012, 5:04 pm

dorfin wrote:
Both my children are farsighted. The eldest was diagnosed at 3 and a half years old and is quite badly affected. The younger one got diagnosed at just 2 years old. I got him tested because it often runs in families. His isn't as bad because he started wearing corrective lens at an earlier age.

I have never heard that it is unusual to get farsightedness at a young age and I know several other children with it. I have been told that most babies are born farsighted but in the majority it resolves itself as the eye grows. I have never heard of it being linked to autism before.

Hi,
are you also from the UK? I am, have you got AS?



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12 Jul 2012, 5:06 pm

deltafunction wrote:
I am farsighted, though I rarely use my glasses unless I am reading books.


This is great.more and more with ASD have far sightedness.



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12 Jul 2012, 5:20 pm

davidgolfpro wrote:
dorfin wrote:
Both my children are farsighted. The eldest was diagnosed at 3 and a half years old and is quite badly affected. The younger one got diagnosed at just 2 years old. I got him tested because it often runs in families. His isn't as bad because he started wearing corrective lens at an earlier age.

I have never heard that it is unusual to get farsightedness at a young age and I know several other children with it. I have been told that most babies are born farsighted but in the majority it resolves itself as the eye grows. I have never heard of it being linked to autism before.

Hi,
are you also from the UK? I am, have you got AS?


Yes I am from the UK. I have not been diagnosed with AS, but the more I read about it I think I might have.



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12 Jul 2012, 6:16 pm

davidgolfpro wrote:
Has anyone else got farsightedness? My optician told me I was very young to have it. I was told this about 14 years ago.
Yes. Extremely so, and have required glasses since I was 3 or 4 years old.
But this is the first I've heard of it being related to AS or that it's at all unusual in the young.
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This is great.more and more with ASD have far sightedness.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. :wink:


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12 Jul 2012, 6:18 pm

dorfin wrote:
davidgolfpro wrote:
dorfin wrote:
Both my children are farsighted. The eldest was diagnosed at 3 and a half years old and is quite badly affected. The younger one got diagnosed at just 2 years old. I got him tested because it often runs in families. His isn't as bad because he started wearing corrective lens at an earlier age.

I have never heard that it is unusual to get farsightedness at a young age and I know several other children with it. I have been told that most babies are born farsighted but in the majority it resolves itself as the eye grows. I have never heard of it being linked to autism before.

Hi,
are you also from the UK? I am, have you got AS?


Yes I am from the UK. I have not been diagnosed with AS, but the more I read about it I think I might have.


I had only heard of Aspergers end of last year and now I have it..how weird.

Glad you have found out about it.



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12 Jul 2012, 7:03 pm

There have been numerous topics about vision quality on here. There has never been a clear pattern of anything. I, for instance, have extremely good vision of every sort. If I get too many B vitamins, my vision will sometimes have such great clarity that seeing the details of an entire landscape or room will be so overwhelming that I am forced to obscure part of my vision. My eyes will shut down other parts of my brain to process all of the details they are capable of picking up.


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