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J40kfan17
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14 Feb 2011, 9:12 pm

Interesting, to date only one has ever been able to tell that I had aspergers by being around me and that didn't end well. I'm good at hiding my aspergers with the exception of my speech impediment and most assume I'm from another nation and my silence and don't put the two together.

Anyway I'm guessing that as a self proclaimed psychic he is skilled at reading people and you stood out for him.



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14 Feb 2011, 9:29 pm

When I see other Aspies it often looks like their eyes are set deeper into their face than NTs. I notice it on myself too. I'm still not sure if I'm seeing a difference in facial construction or just a difference in expression. I know some book somewhere says our faces actually are built different than NTs and that could explain it.



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14 Feb 2011, 9:52 pm

Rose_in_Winter wrote:
He might mean that he can tell because you didn't make eye contact. Most NTs are completely comfortable looking someone in the eye, and they also instinctively know when to break it so they don't seem to be staring. My therapist said her first clue with me was that I never made eye contact; my eyes roamed around the room during our sessions. I think sometimes people who know about Autism/AS guess that we have it because of the way we avoid eye contact, or if we do make it, don't break it off at the right time and wind up staring!

im fine with eye contact XD


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14 Feb 2011, 11:51 pm

Major_G wrote:
jojobean wrote:
I am actually pretty good at "reading eyes" It is hard to explain but I can tell alot about a person by looking into their eyes and most of the time I am usually correct. Aspie eyes usually look like they are thinking and distant ...sometimes a permanant perplexed look, other times a flat expression. I have been told that my eyes are "deep" I guess that is because I am usually thinking too much.
The eyes are the mirror of one's mind. I dont know how I have so many aspie traits but managed to be able to read faces and eyes better than some nt's, but I never fit neatly in any category.

Anyway, I hope that helps


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This is what I don't get - HOW can you tell about people from eyes alone? I can tell a lot about people by watching them, but when I look at eyes, I just see eyes.



Well when I look into ppl's eyes, I see emotion and trying to explain how this works is like explaining color to a blind person...all I can say is that perhaps it is the size of the pupils that convey these things as smaller pupils often indicated anxiety, anger, or too much light, but there is also an expression I can see in the colored part of the eyes that I do not have the words to explain how I can sense it.


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15 Feb 2011, 12:02 am

I've had a ton of people tell me that I have dead eyes. I've never understood, because I see eyes as eyes.