Side eye glancing

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Okay so when DD1 was a very small baby and toddler she often did this side eye glancing thing. I definitely found it funny at first, we would joke and say she's giving us the side eye but then I noticed she was doing it a lot unprompted it definitely caught my attention. Had her eyes checked and everything fine and she gradually stopped.

Then I was sent a videos and photos of myself from when I was younger maybe 6 years old and I'm doing the exact same thing with my eyes. I've read this is often a stim or a kind of sensory processing thing related to autism. Has anyone else seen this or heard of it?

To this day I cannot make eye contact with people. I find it physically uncomfortable and will avoid at all costs.

My 4 year old does this. He's autistic and has global development delay. I just thought it was one of his quirks but his teaching assistant mentioned it to me as a form of stimming last week

He also likes to hold objects at his eye level and moves it to his peripheral vision and keeps it there but watches/plays with it from there

@Min133 that's interesting. Can I ask what a global development delay is? There's lot of things going on aswell that point me towards autism but just found it so crazy to see myself doing the exact same thing at a young age! I've been described as "odd" "sensitive" throughout my life

Global development delay is when there a significant delay in 2 or more areas of development. He's been behind in all areas of development since birth

Ooh this is interesting! My 3 year old started doing this with 1 eye, I took her to opticians who said can't see anything obvious so would need drops in , but she won't let them near her. So I'm now thinking it's part of her autism!