Sent this to my wife and we talked a bit about how I don’t like lights on.
I realized that even when I’m home alone at night (and not taking care so that she doesn’t wake up), I will use the flashlight/torch on my cell phone rather than turn on lights in the house.
I’m the wife and I’m like you. I will stand in the dark and wait for my eyes to adjust rather than turn on a light.
We have fairy lights and red LED string lights for the high traffic areas to dissuade hubby from flipping on the overhead.
Low light motion sensor nightlights for a couple spots so that we don’t step on a cat on the way to the bathroom.
The kitchen lights are dimmable, so we can go bright when needed to cook, and dim if just searching for a snack.
I love it. He has given in and adjusted. I find it calm and cozy.
Dimmable RGB LED bulbs are for this. One command can turn on all the lights to 100% in soft white color. Another can set them all to 1% and orange color. The color change makes the room even darker than just setting the lights to 1% at normal color.
That’s the family-friendly version anyway. If I’m the only one up, I’m totally content with everything off.
Hey now there’s nothing weird about being completely unable to focus under fluorescent lights.
For me it can be the opposite, I often focus better with artificial light than with sunlight.
I learned recently that not everyone can see the fluorescent flicker. It’s unnerving and feels a bit like being buzzed on caffeine. It’s not so bad in the offices with indirect lighting. Also, cheap LED lights can flicker. I clung to my incandescent lights until they all burnt out.
Wait they can’t? Although now that I think about it, there’s certain cheap LED lights that I can see the flicker and my girlfriend cant
IT BURNS!! IT BURRNNNSSS!!!
Ceiling Lights, MY ONLY WEAKNESS!!
Shouldn’t that be “photodivergent”?
Dunce here, I don’t get the joke. Can somebody explain? Are ceiling lights something ND people don’t like?
Cruel and unusual punishment
Is this more of an ADHD thing, or an ASD thing?
I don’t like bright overhead lights, either. I was diagnosed ADHD at the tender age of 56.
Most people don’t, I think. Our office got LEDs to replace our fluorescent bulbs and we leave the lights entirely off since then. Or maybe we’re all secretly on the spectrum lol.
Which ceiling light? White one or yellow one? I’ve got both.
Being able to switch the color from an app is a game changer
Nah you good i didn’t think so, I’m just sharing my personal thoughts on the matter
When did Nero divergent become a thing? Last couple months it’s everywhere. Never even heard of it before then…
I mean I’ve been hearing it since like 2018, it’s just an easier way to say you have some disorder or another without really getting specific.
Also humans just love classifying themselves so that probably has a bit to do with it
