1y ago

Neurodivergent threat

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Fuck uncovered lighting. I want light, not a blinding light source. Cover that shit up.
- Dude appreciates a nice sconce
- It just needs to be warm lighting. Any cool color lightbulbs don’t belong inside a house (unless it’s a workbench or something)
  
  Warm lighting fucks up the apparent colors of my walls and makes them look quite sickly, because the colors I have don’t mix well with yellow (ime, most bright colors don’t mix well with warm lights, and my colors specifically are mostly in the blue/purple/red side of the color wheel), so you are incorrect.
  It’s all about balance; cool lights don’t need to be as intense for the same apparent lumen result. Or, you know, get a shade. I don’t even own any warm lights anymore, but the only real clue is that my walls are the correct color at night..
  
  I also use the night mode on my phone and computer 24/7. It gets more red at night.
- Harlot lights. Harlights.

They hate us because they ain't us.
- Imma corner you in the store and try to talk to you.
  
  I'll just cry and make you uncomfortable until you go away
- It's the noise of a forklift backing up and air compressors for me. I never said a word about it but I noticed one of the factory workers always turns it off when he sees me. Really appreciate it and I give him homemade baked goods.
  Think my wife turns on the vacuum cleaner when she is angry at me, but that is probably too cynical.
- Edit: ivrofiht
  I brought my game boy to school
  Edit: no idea what happened there I’m old

I think the lighting in my house would trigger everyone here.
- This should be a bannable offense
- Please go find a corner to sit in and think about what you have done.
- especially if it spins with the fan
- For when you want to recreate the cozy feeling of getting flashbanged
- But WHY
  
  Previous homeowner installed the fan and it has 3 candelabra sized sockets. Getting regular bulbs for it were far too dim. So I got these. And then the enclosure didn't fit so I said fuck it.
  TBF, I mostly keeps the lights off in my house. I'm currently sitting in darkness on my computer.
- Cheap Chinese housefire bulbs
  
  Not cheap, but definitely Chinese.
- What in tarnation
- OOTL, what am I looking at?
  
  I think those are three of those high powered, high lumen led bulbs. For when you want to simulate looking straight at the sun whenever you look up in your living room.

Wait hold on is this something that bothers other ADHD people? How did they know this was an effective threat? Is this wildly known?
Is this why my parents would always turn the light on when I was in a room alone and I was sort of in trouble for forgetting my brother at the park?
- Yes, the neuotypicals use the light as a weapon against us, we must rise up and usher in a new era of comfortable semi-darknesss
  
  i'm gonna max your cellphone brightness
- My wife has finally learned that I'm ok with overhead lightning, but it can't be at 100% it actually makes my eyes hurt at max intensity. I'm also a ginger and recently learned we apparently tend to have sensitivities to light as well. I never stood a chance lol
  
  How have you managed to adapt to getting struck by lightning regularly? This is something I've been trying to sort out for myself or some time so needless to say I am very curious
- (psst: widely known, in case it's not just an autocorrect fluke)
  
  Honestly, I like the other way better. I think I'm switching on this one.
- It really doesn't bother me, although bare florescent bulbs trigger my migraines.
  
  I think they gave everyone migraines. Years ago I remember a lot of people complaining in the office about it and then the office replaced them with something else I think they were LEDs.
  Also they make an annoying buzzing noise.
  
  Oh, I replaced all of those with drop in LED replacements. All I had to do was tear out the ballasts and plug in the new lights.

Everyone I know: turns on the keilig spotlight interrogation-quality canned lighting array, flooding the environment with blinding flourescent and/or blue-as-fuck white LED light
Me: aiight Imma head out
- ...i stocked up on several hundred high-efficiency incandescent (short-life halogen) bulbs the week before retail sales were banned completely, which should last me about three more years despite their pitifully short lifespan compared to traditional (previously-banned) incandescent bulbs...
  ...while LED lighting's improved over the past decade and admittedly surpasses notchy-as-fuck compact flourescent bulbs, i can only hope that LED technology evolves further to offer less-abhorrent spectra by 2028, elsewise i'll be seeking black-market imports after my reserve incandescent bulbs are exhausted...
  
  You've been able to buy warm light LEDs for about 10 years now.
  
  There's always colored bulbs or housings too.
  
  This is a strangely satisfying comment

Can someone explain, please?
- ND people are cave dwelling creatures that have evolved in the total absence of light. Turning on the ceiling light will blind and disorient the ND.
  
  I'm not welcomed in the realms of the sun, besides everyone out there is a dick.
- Neurotypicals for some reason think the main light is ok to use.
  
  There was an era in home building, decades ago, when overhead lighting in living rooms wasn't really a thing. They had table and floor lamps. That was good enough. Some fucker along the way thought he was being smart by adding an overhead light in the living room.
  
  This is the correct answer.
- A lot of ND folks have some specific sensory issue that overstimulates them, and overhead lights are a common visual one. (A common auditory one might be ambient noise like traffic, and a tactile one might be the feeling of certain fabrics on their skin).
  
  ooh my tactile icks would be silk-y textures and microfiber cloth. In addition to soap and lotions so I try to be efficient with it before I can't stand the feeling
- It's very common for autistic people to feel uncomfortable in artificial overhead lighting. Natural light from windows, lamps, or no light at all is often preferred.
  
  i just fucking detest certain kinds of light sources no matter where they are, i think so long as it's got proper good CRI and isn't clinically blue i'm fine with it.
  i actually recently got some extra bright bulbs for my room because i'm sick of walking outside and feeling like a vampire, indoors needs to be brighter so my eyes learn to use the pupils.
- Many people on the spectrum go through life with speakers blasting in their ears, wearing steel wool for clothing, and staring at the light output of a small sun. Additionally picking up on tiny flickers in sound and light.
  So if your entire day is your senses screaming at you when you get home you kinda want dim lights and less noise.
  I assume the image here is someone teasing a friend playing up a preference as a kryptonite-like substance.

I cannot abide the light pointing straight down, we evolved architecture specifically so we could make the light be sideways or whichever other direction. If I wanted overhead lighting Id go out in the sun like an animal.

I have tape or marker covering all the blue lights that I can. So many small electronics have piercing blue LEDs and I just cannot deal. Bring back the old ruby red console lights please!
- I will say though that new phones NEED to start including the LED indicator. I actually hate how I can't just glance at my phone and tell if I have a voicemail, text message, missed call, and/or email waiting. Now I have to pick the thing up, turn on the screen, look at what it is, and actively choose to ignore it.
  It's a lot more work.
  
  AMOLED Alway On Displays are your friends. My phone shows the time, battery charge and notification icons, very dimly, everything else is pitch black. It's better than the blinking led ever was. It sits on the table, if it vibrates, I look at it and decide if it is important or not based on the icon that shows up, then I ignore it anyways.
  
  My Pixel 2 XL had it. I miss it after switching to the Nord n200
- Electrical tape ftw, but I have also just snipped off the red LEDs of my old sound card. And I've spray painted the metal chassis black. Man I hate Creative so much.
  
  wait until you learn about the Rgb soundcard
- My wife always puts black nail polish on those little shits. I love her
- Lord, I had a cheap PA system for band practice with a blue power LED that felt like it was gonna bore a hole through my eyes.
  So I put some duct tape on it.
  Then it felt like the light from under the duct was gonna bore a hole through my eyes.

Tell me you wanted a light fixture rapidly disassembled without saying so.

My partner sometimes likes to fuck with me by switching our light string from warm to blue white color and it makes me hiss like a cat.
- I know they're terrible and gon for a good reason.... But.
  I miss old school lights. I remember as a kid, around town in the winter. Pitch black at 6pm. -20f, absolutely still air. All you can hear is the hum of the sodium lights. Just the warmest red/orange light.
  I'm probably just an old man reminiscing, but the world won't produce temperatures, light, or silence like that anymore. Now it's just the harshest led lights, a million beeps, and half heard music on shit ass speakers.
  
  Well, maybe today's silence doesn't hum like a sodium light, but it continues to exist. I still enjoy your poetic reminiscence tho.
  
  I have been fishing around for fome heavyweight lighting, can't even find those 500W halogen ones any more. Just as you say leds with crappy light.
  No, the "any color light bulbs" are good either.
- All my lights used to be blue white. I wanted maximum light for my light. Lately I can't stand it, they all have to be warm now. I don't know what changed.
- I can feel this.

Didn't know that enjoying comfortable lighting is neurodivergent
- The divergence is what sort of lighting you consider "comfortable", in case you were serious.
  
  Isn't it generally accepted that directional, dim lighting makes for a more comfortable atmosphere? I doubt that any professional interior or lighting designer would just put a single omnidirectional ceiling light in the middle of the room and call it a day, for good reason. So how is enjoying that neurodivergent? Tbh it seems more neurodivergent to me to be comfortable with bright cold light at home — that's serial killer behavior, lol.
  Seems more like a question of preferences or caring / not caring about something rather than being neurotypical or not.

I’ve adjusted my mood light to green at 70%
- Red, 5%
  
  Cyberpunk vision

I like it. Sometimes I want to feel awake and see everything. Options are everything (especially between white and yellow).
- Exactly: there's ambient lighting, and theres the Daylight button.

Hey light is less a problem than midnight snacking.

Fluorescent lighting 100%. Warm dimming LEDs behind a nice shade, on the other hand, can stay (preferably dimmed).

For me I don't have issues with the lights themselves but some of them have flicker that I notice that no one else would that sometimes annoys the fuck out of me and stresses me out on some level and sometimes it happens on a subconscious level until I consciously notice it
For lights that don't have noticeable flicker I am fine with

Ceiling light enclosure manufacturers when somebody tells them about diffusers

Am neurodivergent AF. I'm the kind that needs ALL OF THE LIGHTS. Not cool tone (hiss) but neutral to warm toned lights. I need the overhead and any and all lamps at the same time- gotta be lit like a goddamn stadium up in this bitch.
We exist.

ah yes also known as the neurodivergent kryptonite

My apartment still uses U-shaped plugin CFL bulbs in the overhead lights. One literally exploded when turned on. Needless to say, the ceiling lights are almost never used.

My sister would come into my room, and regardless of if I had the light on or off, would flip it to be the opposite. All the while staring and plotting destruction. Day, night, didn't matter, it would be flipped.
- Actual torture technique

do it pussy, i don't have a ceiling light. Get fucked.

Anybody else get vertigo from ceiling fans? 😂😵‍💫

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