kraftiekortie wrote:
I stand by what I said.
It’s wrong to say that I sought to “shut down the discussion.”
It’s a fact that many people, autistic and non autistic, have to wear glasses “all the time”—mostly for nearsightedness until age 40, then for farsightedness (or both) after age 40. And for astigmatism.
You wasn't trying to shut down the discussion.
It is true that glasses are common in NTs too, but for some reason it does seem that a lot of people on the spectrum seem to need (permanent) glasses from a young age (like I'm not talking about people over 40).
In the children's TV show "Arthur" the autistic character, Carl, wore glasses (yes I know Arthur did and he was NT but...you know). And I've often watched documentaries of autism that had autistic teenagers and young adults wearing glasses.
And glasses are brought up a lot on WP too like the majority of people here wear them or have always wore them.
It just seems like there's a commonality of glasses wearing among the autistic community, that's all. And also the same with downs syndrome too, like the OP pointed out.
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