DD is 5.6, not in proper school yet (HE/kindergarten, so no school eye test). Its six months or so since the first time I ever noticed it, but has come and gone since then and is only in the last eight weeks it has become very obvious.
She sort of looks up and to the side, then scrunches her eyes shut for a second. Its most frequent when she is tired, when reading bedtime stories she does it every few minutes, and a few times an hour during the day.
She sometimes says when asked that her eyes feel 'gritty', but sometimes says she doesn't know she is doing it.
She has had a couple of 'tics' before - throat clearing for a few months last winter, and head tossing on and off since toddlerhood (though that has stopped recently).
Poor eyesight runs in my family, but as far as I can tell she has no trouble focussing or seeing teeny tiny things, and can look at the writing in a book from a normal distance.
Just wondered what anyone might suggest first - GP, optician, treat as a tic?