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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 131530" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Shari, I DO think it's worth mentioning. </p><p></p><p>Fwiw, a bit more insight. I hope it helps.</p><p></p><p>When I'm feeling a little more heavily Aspie, I have great trouble making eye contact with people. So I look either at the right or the left side of people's faces. When I'm feeling strong and together, I look above and between people's eyes. In neither case am I making eye contact, but because my face and eyes are pointing in vaguely the right direction, people are convinced by it.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has quite a bit of trouble making eye contact, but he also has trouble interpreting eye contact. If you're not looking directly at difficult child, he will stare intently at you to try and pick up on some sort of social cues. (He has had years of socialization classes and has learned a lot of superficial traits of body language by rote.) But he won't look at your eyes, and he has terrible trouble discerning whether people are looking at him. There are many times when my head will be pointing in difficult child's general direction, but I'm merely looking at something in his vicinity. He interprets that as eye contact, and then he'll say something like, "Mom, stop looking at me funny." He perceives that I'm looking at him funny because I'm not looking at him at all, and he can't quite make out what I'm doing with my face.</p><p></p><p>Yes, I would definitely mention the eye contact issue to the dev pediatrician and others.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 131530, member: 3907"] Shari, I DO think it's worth mentioning. Fwiw, a bit more insight. I hope it helps. When I'm feeling a little more heavily Aspie, I have great trouble making eye contact with people. So I look either at the right or the left side of people's faces. When I'm feeling strong and together, I look above and between people's eyes. In neither case am I making eye contact, but because my face and eyes are pointing in vaguely the right direction, people are convinced by it. My difficult child has quite a bit of trouble making eye contact, but he also has trouble interpreting eye contact. If you're not looking directly at difficult child, he will stare intently at you to try and pick up on some sort of social cues. (He has had years of socialization classes and has learned a lot of superficial traits of body language by rote.) But he won't look at your eyes, and he has terrible trouble discerning whether people are looking at him. There are many times when my head will be pointing in difficult child's general direction, but I'm merely looking at something in his vicinity. He interprets that as eye contact, and then he'll say something like, "Mom, stop looking at me funny." He perceives that I'm looking at him funny because I'm not looking at him at all, and he can't quite make out what I'm doing with my face. Yes, I would definitely mention the eye contact issue to the dev pediatrician and others. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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