When our son was being diagnosed with autism one of the number of traits he presented was not making eye contact.  Toy can read more about the process at a previous blog on the subject here https://patienttalk.org/how-easy-was-it-to-get-your-child-diagnosed-with-autism/

Indeed lack of eye contact has been identified as one of the key indicators in an autism diagnosis.

But for us that was not exactly the whole story.  One of the issues with our son was that he did make eye contact but only with his mother so when she was around diagnosis was harder.

This set me wondering as to the experiences of other people.  What were the issues with eye contact prior to diagnosis with autism or ASD.

Firstly it would be great if you could take our poll below.

Secondly we would love it if you could use the comment boxes below to share your eye contact story in more detail.

Thanks very much in advance.