Aspie eyes

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"Do you know Cezanne's portrait by himself, a marvellous thing produced with such simple means that the artist might have found them on a desert island? If you have looked at it for only ten seconds, you will never forget the eyes, clear, hard, harsh, cold and sharp as steel. Artists often possess those eyes less made to love reality, as people say, than to go straight to its essentials. Degas had that kind of eyes. Lucien Simon has them. Forain, at nearly eighty, still has them. Not very long ago, I saw those eyes in the head of a smartly dressed, dark-looking young painter, outside the "Ruche," in Vaugirard: he interested me and our glances were like crossed swords, high above the sphere of mere politeness. Those eyes see where others see not. What is the power of a Napoleon, even of a Mussolini? Not mere "power," but magnetism, and the magnetism is more intelligence than force. Such men see, they see the necessities of an epoch, and woe to the people who will not see them as they do! The contempt of the eagle for crawling creatures will fall upon them."

-Ernest Dimnet, from The Art Of Thinking

I always thought there was something with the eyes. Ive been told mine are cold and sharklike but that's not exactly what Im seeing.

I once pointed out my boyhood photos and said to my folks, what's going on with my eyes? Just the shape and...something. I dont know. They thought they looked normal.

I wonder what my eyes tell me?

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Does it look aspie to you?

I don't notice anything different about Autistic eyes, but I've been told by those that know about ASD that I've got the 'aspie eyes'.

I've also heard throughout my life that people think I don't pay attention when I am, in fact, paying attention.

My eyes...

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for much of my first 4 decades, i was termed a "stoner" because of my long tangled hair and eerie disconnected eyes, like a doll's eyes except when angry, when they take on an unpleasant beadiness, like that of the late george sodoni's eyes.

I notice something different about aspie/autie eyes too. There is something about the way in which we look out of those eyes that make our eyes look different, like an unusual kind of a stare or gaze.

I have those aspie eyes too. Come to think of it, now that some of you have compared it with looking stoned, I remember that people used to comment about me looking stoned sometimes before. I never gave it much thought and just brushed it off as nonsense, since I've never been stoned in my life. Now I'm starting to "get it" what they meant.

I've noticed those aspie eyes before in other aspies, but I've never given much thought to me having them too until now. Now I wonder if having such aspie eyes is why some neurotypicals seem slightly uncomfortable with me even if I don't give them any reason to. Maybe my unusual gaze puts them off somehow or makes them uncomfortable. Some people tend to think that quiet people are crazy and even dangerous, like a time bomb about to explode, and maybe a strange gaze just adds to that.

Not yet comfortable enough here to show my eyes... maybe soon.

People often tell me I look "doubtful" or "dazed" even when I honestly don't feel that way... I have always thought this is all in the eyes.

Also - when I look in the mirror my face doesn't look like mine - if I look at bits of it in isolation it all looks OK, except the eyes - which I always think look odd. Not their shape or anything (I do have a condition which sometimes makes my eyes appear different sizes), but just like I'm not looking at me, more like I'm looking through me.

It's difficult to describe and I'm probably not doing it well. But it's sense of not recognising myself. Is this common? Is it possible "Aspie eyes"? Or does this just sound a little like I'm crazy? Hmmm.

I think I do have a stone look. I always thought my right eye (left on the picture) was looking weird.

I was tired of being the rejected guy in high school, after a fight in school I took boxing lesson. I learned self control, self confidence and that look. I'm a nice guy, emotive, caring, I'd never threat anyone, but I'm ready if I need to protect someone close or myself if I need to. I'm not what I look like, maybe it's a social defense mechanism !

People usually think that I have a weird expression on my face, or that I am staring blankly. I don't know how well you can see my eyes in my profile picture, it's the only one I have at the moment...

I have noticed that whenever I take a picture of myself I have to redo it over and over because I can't get the type of expression on my face that I want. I must have taken 50 pictures in a row before I got this one that I ended up using for my avatar. And I am still not 100 percent satisfied with it. I look at the camera and smile, and then my face ends up looking totally different than I thought it would based on how it felt! And I think it has to do with my eyes, like I can never get them to open enough.

I have always had a problem with my eyes and facial expressions actually projecting the expressions I feel and intend to express. It seems I can be feeling one thing and making a particular expression in my I mind that looks all together different to what I thought it did. I have come aware of this even more over the years as I have picked up feedback from people along the way who are all too eager to let you know how weird you look . I really don’t know why this happens, it does seem to be an AS trait.

I agree. I wish I could put my finger on what it is.