Questions about sight.

[Iamnotarabot]

So i am one month away from my first session with a therapist...and tons of questions are in my head...

Tonight i think about my sight, and they were tings that bothered me since i was a kid.

I have the ability to see things "double"
Its hard to explain but it can be when i read and i see the page twitch if i want ( can read just double blurry image) Or any object put like 60cm away from me i guess...i can see it double easely.

And sometime i cant control it, for instance if i read too much

One day also i was tired from a double 4h only sleep, at the end of the day my head broke and i saw everything double.

Also about sight, when i walk , well when my body is in a certain speed and then if i stop, my sight is troubled, very hard to explain, like things changing perspective things like that.

I remember when i was a kid we had a sudden breakdown on the hightway so we stopped, and it was the first time i noticed it i guess so it scared me, like i was moving but not moving, for minutes...

Is this normal? is this autism related?

 

[Theta.G]

Have you gotten your eyes checked?
Sounds like astigmatism. Mishapen eyes.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Not recently but i always had it and no doctor said anything, I did some test when i was younger was like 10/10 , but yeah 4 years ago it decreased to 8 but now i remember i didnt do the tests in good conditions

 

[Iamnotarabot]

But the weird part is that i can trigger it when ever i want, only a few time it happened on its own , when i was tired.

 

[onlything]

Are you moving your eyes in any way during doing this? Is it similar or completely different than when you focus on the sight of your nose?

 

[the_tortoise]

I remember when i was a kid we had a sudden breakdown on the hightway so we stopped, and it was the first time i noticed it i guess so it scared me, like i was moving but not moving, for minutes...

That could be a vestibular processing issue -- where the information coming from your inner ears isn't being processed very well by your brain (there are structures filled with fluid in your inner ear that inform your brain which way your head is oriented, and whether or not you are moving and in what direction)....your brain still expects to visually see movement, because it hasn't registered the info from your inner ears that relays the fact you've stopped moving .

Before I went through OT for sensory integration, I could easily cause the whole body sensation of being on a swing just by moving my eyes a certain way (the way I would move them if I was on a swing) when they were closed. (Now I can't do it anymore, which actually makes me really sad because I would use it to soothe myself.)

 

[Butterfly88]

I don't have these issues. I know one thing that can cause double vision is pituitary adenomas if they push on the optic nerve. They also causes hormonal issues so if you had that likely you'd have other symptoms. They aren't as scary as they sound. I had a pituitary adenoma but it didn't interfere with my vision. I see an endocrinologist now and things are going well.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Haha you scare me some of you xD

Sry im on phone so i wont be very talkative.

So. Its similar to when i look at my nose id say...but when i want to double vision something farther i dont feel my eyes moving the same way.

I also remember now that when i was younger i used to male my eyes move in weird way to make me believe there is an earthquake.

I cant see my nose without troubling my eye sight too.
Plus i always have the left side of my nose in my sight , but i ignore it cause its very blury

 

[Kathos]

My son has your eyes and it is a major issue. He use to cry when we would play catch, he refused to read and had trouble decoding the alphabet. The double vision was a tracking issue and just one small part of his vision problems. He has 20/20 vision and didn't need glasses so we didn't think he had an eye problem. But, because he was throwing fits for what seemed like no reason a friend recommended a Developmental Optometrist that her son was seeing. We did an assessment and even got a second opinion because they discovered so many problems. After 5 months of therapy my son started reading, riding a bike, catching a ball like a normal kid and caught up with the rest of his class.
Here is an informative Ted Talk about vision therapy - please note that this is not a regular optometrist and you would need to see a specialist that in our case was not covered by insurance
They can nip your double vision in the butt.

 

[the_tortoise]

Plus i always have the left side of my nose in my sight , but i ignore it cause its very blury

That just means your left eye is dominant over your right eye -- it's like with handed-ness, most people have a dominant eye.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Thanks a lot for your replies! Well according to you some things are normal and some less normal^^'

Well, kathos, i will look at the video later, thanks , maybe i had similar issues younger, because i never read a lot, even now, and i dont know if its related at all but i cried a tons for no reason as a kid, im using the context of the photograph to understand.

I dont even know how peole read properly, as a kid i know i needed to look at word one by one, looking at the whole page wasnt possible, i got better with time, find a better balance and faster reading.

I may say some weird stuff but since i dont know what is normal and what is not, i better ask i guess.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Sorry i didnt read all answers properly but i will! Still on my phone !

The tortoise you think i have an internal ear issue? Can it also explain my discomfort when i swim and then lay on the ground?
Or if i get up too fast etc?

Is it somehow autism related or common for people with autism?

 

[the_tortoise]

The tortoise you think i have an internal ear issue?

No, not exactly -- I was guessing you might have a sensory processing issue, specifically with processing the information that your brain gets from your inner ears. My guess was that your brain is not processing information about balance and movement normally.

You could have an inner ear issue, though, that would also make sense.

Can it also explain my discomfort when i swim and then lay on the ground?
Or if i get up too fast etc?

What kind of discomfort is it? Like you get dizzy or feel off-balance?

That could definitely be an inner ear issue (or a sensory processing issue).

Is it somehow autism related or common for people with autism?

If it is a sensory processing issue then it is common for people with autism (sensory processing issues are very common for autistics).

If it is an inner ear issue I have no idea.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

I remember when i was a kid i had few days where everything moved around me so freaking fast !

About the discomfort, well, hard to explain precisely now since i didnt go to the beach for years, i dont realy swim a lot anymore, its like, id say its like my body wants to get up if i lay on the groud, hard to explain, usually i stay up for minutes after swimming. Its troubling my sight at the same time, i mean things move.

Now i think about it , after a long swimming session at a vacation camp i litteraly
couldnt do anything anymore, for 30minute i turned pale and just vomit while i had nothing in my stomach, it was an intense swimming session.




I have an overall balance issue also,well i think, and since i am a kid, in the bus i was making my mother crazy because i was litteraly throwing myself each time the bus descelerate or accelerate.