I’m still on my journey of understanding the differences between autism and other. My focus today is eye contact, so let’s have a discussion!

Guiding questions:

  • What do you think is the underlying difference that causes autistic people to use less eye contact than others?

  • What does it feel like for you?

  • How do you interpret other people’s eye contact?

  • Do you avoid it, use short glances, or maintain NT-levels of eye contact?

  • Does it vary by situation?

  • Anything else you would like to discuss regarding eye contact?

Question is open to anyone. If not identified, then the assumption is the user is autistic. Otherwise, if you’re NT or other ND, please state so 🙂

  • @souperk@reddthat.comEnglish
    17•6 months ago

    It’s a lot, just that when I having eye contact my mind gets overloaded. Fan fact, I avoid eye co tact even when watching a show or a movie, I rarely look at characters faces and I miss a lot of facial expressions.

    • @constantokraEnglish
      6•6 months ago

      I think that is one reason why we tend to like shows like star trek. They almost play like they’re on a stage where you have to see their expressions from afar. pretty easy to catch what’s going on.