Research found that those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) were more likely to have vision and eye disorders.
A systematic review, published in Molecular Psychiatry, evaluated 95 studies, which assessed 15,629,159 individuals. This showed that people with ASD had increased prevalence of strabismus, accommodation deficits, reduced peripheral vision and stereoacuity, increased color discrimination difficulties, reduced contrast sensitivity, and increased retinal thickness, compared to those without.
The study said there were several methodological limitations in individual studies and further research was needed to clarify the causal relationship, if any, between ASD, problems of vision and problems of vision during early life.