Do/did you have a "lazy eye" (amblyopia)?

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I was talking with my ex today about my AS, and he believes it is only associated with people who have (in his words) visibly "wonky eyes".... (I have since read that amblyopia is generally not visible to yourself or others, and can only be detected by an eye doctor).

I reminded him that I had eye issues when I was younger and had to have eye exercises to fix it (I couldn't go cross-eyed and hence my eyes couldn't work properly for reading, etc). I was having many unexplained headaches, and after many tests, this was the cause that was found.

I was wondering how many others on here have had or still have issues with their eyes like this?

I was pretty bad at keeping up doing my eye exercises, and now these days I have just got glasses for "mild short sightedness" and WOW I cannot believe how clear the World can be! lol And I never realised how amazing 3D movies were until I wore my new glasses under the 3D glasses! Anyway, what is everyone else's experience with this?

There are some articles that link amblyopia with autism.

http://www.autism-help.org/comorbid-visual-problems.htm (PLEASE READ THIS ONE, I found it fascinating!! I do have issues with a lazy eye, depth perception, and I do rock forwards and backwards)

http://devdelay.org/newsletter/articles ... yopia.html

And this is one is just about amblyopia
http://www.lazyeye.org/

Yes I have a lazy right eye.
I can although it hurts go reverse cross eyed looking in 2 different directions at the same time.

I have
Nystagmus rapid/repetitive eye movement
Strabismus cross eyed
Ptosis drooping eyelids

I had several surgeries as a kid to fix all of the above. My first surgery was at 11 months to fix head tilting problem caused by the Nystagmus.

Yep. Lazy left eye. Learned to hold it straight at age 12 or so, but am nearly blind in it. It will cross when I'm tired, and I need to close it to read if not wearing glasses.

Yep--I've got it in my left eye. It was worse when I was a kid; when I was four I had surgery to correct it. It was partially successful in that my eye no longer crosses all the time, but it still does it when I'm tired. Vision in my left eye is noticeably weaker than it is in my right eye; I tend to close my left eye when I look through binoculars, or when I'm squinting while outside on a sunny day.

I also have difficulty with depth perception and hand-eye coordination.

Thanks for posting that first article, Analyser. I'd noticed a lot of the kids I met with classic autism had strabismus, so I'd made that connection but hadn't read anything about it until now. I do have a stubbornly lazy left eye, which we don't even bother trying to correct anymore. My brain won't use it while my right eye is still open. The lens on the left side of my glasses is just to balance out the lens on the right.
I had thought for a long time that the vision problem might be due to a fever or accident I had as a child, until my nephew was born and it turned out later (no accidents and no major fevers) that he had the same vision problem, except his eyes are switched and his bad one is on the right.
If you have really severe lazy eye (lenses won't correct it) you might try pinhole lens glasses or sunglasses.

i've long had unequal visual acuity in my eyes, with the right eye's vision distinctly fuzzier than the left. so it takes me extra effort to align both eyes to see in 3D.

No but one of my pupils doesn't dilate properly so sometimes I'll have one eye that's large and dilated and the other one is small.
It looks strange.
But it doesn't affect my vision and I don't need glasses.
Thankfully.

Normally, I do not, but when I get really drunk and I space out, my left eye will go completely unfocused. I call it my "drunk eye", and it's my signal to stop drinking.

As a child i had to have two eye operations to fix it its not as noticable now thank goodness although i do wear glasses.

I have a squint ( eye wanders out of alignment when I focus ) in my left eye.

People don't notice, but when I was a kid it sometimes looked very noticable in photo's. I don't possess true depth perception because of it.

So no tennis or 3D stuff for me.

Not that I know of, but I do wear glasses. Astigmatism in both eyes, apparently, but worse in one than the other.

Squint/laziness in left eye. Have glasses to correct it. Have had the problem/glasses since I was about 3 years old.

I have double vision without glasses with the squint, or if I force the squint straight, everything is severely blurred like looking through frosted glass.

Wore eyepatches from then on, until I went onto Junior school, but it didn't help at all. It's still very weak and lazy. I practically see everything with my right eye, even with glasses. It's always like I'm looking through one eye.

I've tried contact lenses, doesn't work. I wouldn't have eye surgery either, and I don't think it's possible for lazy eye anyway.

I have noticeable amblyopia in my left eye due to a number of procedures done on my eyes as an infant to keep me from going blind.

I have:

Retinopathy of prematurity
Astigmatism
Amblyopia
Myopia

My vision is mostly monoscopic, due to that. My brain mostly ignores what I see in my left eye, unless I consciously switch over to using it, rather than my right eye. Yes, I can consciously choose which eye to use; I don't know how unusual that is. I can't hold my vision still for more than a few seconds when using it, though, unless I'm looking very far right with it. Glasses help reduce the apparent amblyopia, but don't eliminate it entirely.

The opthalmologist said I have a wandering eye. It's not really lazy, but if I try to focus on something my right eye will go slightly inward. I think as I have gotten older my eye has stregnthened and it is no long a major issue. I also have very poor vision but that runs in my family.