“I know you’re guilty because you’re looking away.”
Have people said this to you?
Is this kind of accusation something your child is facing?
Are they guilty? Did they do it? Do you know? Perhaps there’s another reason why they seem shifty, why their eyes slide away, seeming to avoid eye contact.
Well… to be able to hold eye contact you need both eyes to be able to focus efficiently on the other person’s face. And if your eyes don’t team well, you can’t. You may see the other person double, or going in and out of double. You may find it easier to look away altogether or to engage one eye on the person who insists, “look at me”.
And then you seem rude, or “shifty”, or untruthful, or as if you’re not listening.
We’re not saying that a person is never rude or not listening or lying. But rule out, first, the possibility that they just can not look at you.
