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WELLinTHIShouse765 karma

Not sure what kind of negative side effects you're asking about, but I had LASIK back in 2004, and I've had three main side effects: I'm more sensitive to light, I have trouble driving at night, and I can't read street signs very well while driving. The last seems oddly specific, but I can only venture to guess that it has something to do with the reflectiveness of the signs and my photosensitivity. Now that my phone can yell at me to TURN LEFT NOW, it's not as big of a problem as it used to be, but it's discomforting when in an unfamiliar area.

WELLinTHIShouse324 karma

Fellow Aspie here, like my father before me, and his mother before him - although neither of them knew they were autistic before they died. My grandmother was in her mid-90s when she was born died, and they just didn't have the vaccines we have now when she was growing up. But the genetics? Yep.

Since there are unvaccinated people around the world who are autistic, and many more vaccinated people who are not autistic, it doesn't even really need scientific studies to point out that the two are unrelated. The one thing you DO need? The genetics. Which you get from your parents.

WELLinTHIShouse204 karma

I do feel so, so bad for the families that have to handle these poor kids

Don't. I'm autistic but wasn't diagnosed until adulthood. Parenting is full of challenges, and raising an autistic child is just a different kind of challenge. I have an autistic son, too. We're not tragic.

WELLinTHIShouse168 karma

I had LASIK back in 2004. It was one of the best things I've ever done for myself. Inevitably, I've rubbed my eyes quite a bit since then, and my vision is starting to get worse again. I bought an "insurance plan" that would let me get my eyes re-done if it ever became an issue, but since the first procedure resulted in increased photosensitivity, difficulty driving at night, and difficulty reading street signs, I'm a little wary about going back and making the side effects worse.

My question is this: Has the LASIK procedure changed over the last 13 years? Are side effects less likely to occur today than they were in 2004, or are the risks the same?

WELLinTHIShouse157 karma

IANAD, but I had LASIK in 2004. As a chronic eye-rubber, I can tell you that I have not personally gone blind from rubbing my eye. I do believe, though, that the rubbing has undone some of the vision correction so that I'm considering going back in for another LASIK procedure or sucking it up and going back to glasses. YMMV.