Eyesight with people with AS

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There seems to be fewer people with AS that have problems with their eyesight. I wonder if this has to with our stronger senses.

I am short-sighted.

And yeah it always seemed kinda weird to me that I have such acute hearing and I'm so sensitive to smell, temperature etc, but that one of my senses is f****d up.

I think quite a lot of aspies do have eye problems though. A lot of us wear glasses

Very short sighted.
The prescription in one eye is much stronger than the other.

My ability to focus on details in the environment is brilliant with my glasses on or contact lenses in. This focussing in on detail probably comes at the expense of viewing the scene in a "global" perspective. Wearing glasses actually restricts my field of view (due to the refraction of light through the lenses). It is a bit like viewing the world through a narrow screen TV at times (the depth of field gets "flattened" and the cone of vision is narrowed). This probably causes me to hyper-focus much more.

My hearing is very good though.

I'm quite nearsighted.

One of the reasons I always have trouble telling the barber/stylist what kind of haircut I want is that I have to take off my glasses during the haircut, and then I can't see myself in the mirror!

When I was a kid, I was told by an eye doctor that I had "power vision". Needless to say my vision was very strong. But as I have aged, it's diminished some and need glasses when I either watch a movie or drive at night.

I was very badly near-sighted. Without glasses the large E at the top of the standard eye chart was blurry and I could barely make it out. My eye doctor said he could only measure my eyesight to 20/400, but thought it was worse than that. Fortunately, I had lasik surgery a few years ago and it was corrected to 20/20. I'm so glad I had it done. I hated dealing with glasses or contact lenses.

Edit: Double post.

Short-sighted since I was a small child...

Same here... near-sighted since a very early age. I think it was inherited from my mom's family line, since I have the EXACT same vision as my grandfather had when he was my age. Which is... pretty bad.

Very short sighted here too. Glasses full-time since I was 3.

I did read somewhere about this that there is supposedly a tendency for AS and Very good eyesight to go hand in hand. The study was released only recently.

For what it matters I have exceptional eyesight,

pretty much the only physical attribute that I am proud of

Like most people in my family, I need glasses to drive or see other things in the distance, especially at night. I made the appointment to see the eye doctor when I was my 20's and in college, since I realized that I couldn't see the board clearly in class.

My eyesight is bad. So far the only person I've met in real life with worse sight is my mum, which I assume is where I got it from.
She is NT and is legally blind without her glasses on.

Extremely short-sighted, poor colour-vision and my vision gets blurry over the day even with glasses.