#light sensitivity

[greenteacryptid]

This environment is incredibly hostile to a creature such as myself (there are fluorescent lights)

[largeworm]

It's genuinely kind of upsetting how quickly social media's keep shooting themselves in the foot to just have something to show to higher ups and making their sites more and more user unfriendly. It reminds me of the Oreo CEO skit from College Humor/Dropout TV.

The new Discord update for mobile is genuinely disheartening by how little they seem to care about people hating the new layout. Which honestly, the DMs now being at the bottom and no longer swipping to see server members is annoying. But as someone who very easily gets god awful headaches from heavy contrast and light, the new "default" themes are... very unfriendly to people like me. Let me show you the difference in old Discord's dark mode vs the new:

Like, holy shit, it's Bad. The new one on the right is barely usable for me, it was giving me strain after only an hour or two of use. And it's not even their darkest mode, which is pure black, but it's their only other option aside from pure white in Light Mode.

If you don't want eyestrain, you'll have to pay the 10$ a month nitro not to get migraines. I have the 3$ version, and I can not change the theme with it to their other options. I was able to fix it by fighting all of my settings for an hour to get it back to the original color palette, but jfc. I shouldn't have to reset all my phone setting, open and relaunch discord, and pray that it decides the "automatic setting" is the non-eyeball burning classic dark mode.

The world and social media is just slowly getting more and more unuser friendly, especially towards people with light sensitivity (I can rant for hours about car headlight luminosity regulations). Just kinda disheartening to see Discord so adamantly against changing any of the new UI stuff, especially is they decide to no longer have the class color palette accessible in the future :/

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Sensitivity to Sunlight

Neurodivergent_lou

[may-be-a-plant]

Kallus's Eyes

So, I made a connection, Kallus is likely very light sensitive.

Our guy has Amber eyes.

---And his descriptions involving light are things like this:

---General knowledge of Amber eyes gives us this:

---And also from personal experience, I also have Amber eyes:

--- I can tell you that even if it's cloudy in the middle of the day, I have a really hard time keeping my eyes open cause it's painful/uncomfortable. Low light conditions like dawn and dusk really are the most comfortable.

Thought it was kind of neat information to share about how Kallus likely interacts with his world and now I completely headcanon that he's very light sensitive. 💛

[smoov-criminal]

hot take but websites/apps/browsers not having a dark mode setting is a form of structural ableism. bright ass screens can be a trigger for migraines, seizures, and a whole host of other bad symptoms. people deserve to browse the internet without having to burn their corneas out

[quarles1845]

[vyva-melinkolya]

cover art texture library

(all images are my own except the ones of water)

[chronic-melon]

Having ME/CFS around Yule looks like:

• Pushing WAY past your limits to spend time with family and friends

• Leaning over to wrap gifts and coming away with sore hands, legs, back…

• Overdoing it trying to make the perfect meal

• Disappointing family when you can’t make it to every gathering or event

• Being unprepared for unexpected hardships or tragedy during the season, like family members in hospitals or a bill that will be hard to pay

• Needing to rest for several days after a gathering and likely flaring severely

• Wanting to do things with the time off but not having the energy, or sometimes even the interest

• Dealing with symptoms from eating foods outside your normal diet… and generally struggling with new textures or flavors

• Needing more help with things like washing extra dishes or handling more packages than usual, even taking out the trash more often

• Managing animals who are dysregulated from unfamiliar people, decorations, smells, and sounds

• Struggling with bright lights and loud noises, leaving gatherings with a headache

• Falling asleep when you’re sitting in the living room talking to your family (yes this happened to me)

• Leaving events early

• Misunderstanding directions or jokes due to brain fog (and in my case autism) but people not taking the time to explain, or getting ignored because there are too many people and it’s too loud

• Not giving the proper reaction to a gift because of symptoms bothering you, not being able to mask pain or fatigue and appearing ungrateful or even upset (also autism)

• The deep-seated fear of catching an infection brought by another guest, but dreading the eye roll and comments from disapproving family

• Needing to park further away from stores or restaurants due to the *hustle and bustle*

If you have more to add, please list it. It doesn’t have to be ME, it can be anything you struggle with as a disabled person around the holiday season.

[spacejax]

wow i just love suffering from an incurable unexplained illness. I especially love experiencing daily excruciating pain that is completely resistant to tylenol

[poopy-pants-gremlin]

I absolutely love the fact that we got a spooky Halloween episode

Without over the top flashing lights

I can't speak for everyone with a light sensitivity of course, but for me they managed to get across "aagghh scary monster flashing lights" without doing it so unnecessarily harsh that it made me unable to watch

Honestly such a breath of fresh air

[greenteacryptid]

The world became crueller the day we started replacing warmtoned lights with cooltoned ones in public places

[wordsforrain]

The winter solstice is on December 21, 2024 in the northern hemisphere. As of today, November 17, we are five weeks out from that date, which means we have officially entered the darkest 10 weeks of the year. We won’t emerge until January 25, 2025.

So if you’re feeling shitty and down and depressed, anything might be causing it, but the overall lack of light probably isn’t helping.

This is a reminder to give yourself grace for the next 10 weeks. It’s going to be rough. Try to get some sunlight each day if you can, and try not to make any big, life-altering decisions if you can, because you might very well feel differently about life once the sun starts showing its face some more.

One big thing I notice, as someone with chronic migraine, is how hard the angle of the sun is on my eyes at this time of year. And how awfully bright other cars’ taillights are, because so much more of my driving takes place in the dark.

Posting this as a hug to myself, bc I’ve been in more pain lately and bummed about it. But also as a hug to you, bc this shit is hard for anyone.

The sun will come back. We just gotta give it some time.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Autism and Bright Lights

The Autistic Teacher

[fourwingedwriter]

Shifting

AN: So, yall ever think about shapeshifters on a random tuesday evening?

Other Nameless Stuff

CWs: shapeshifting, body horror, blood, light/sound sensitivity, injection, throwing up

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Whumpee was slumped against the wall, struggling for consciousness against the pain which plagued them. They had made a fatal mistake and believed they would have been alright.

Their hands shook violently as they resisted the urge to clutch their pounding head. They wanted to squeeze their eyes shut, resisting the light sensitivity which came with the shifting state.

Whumpee's eyes were continuously changing color, field of view, and vision quality. Their brain couldn't process all of it in time for the next change, causing excruciating pain between their temples. Their ears experienced a similar phenomenon, changing shape and altering which pitches they could hear best.

This alone would have ruined Whumpee's day, but the rest of their body was worse. It took all of their power to keep their organs from shifting. If they changed enough, Whumpee would die within seconds. So, as a result, their limbs were constantly changing proportions.

Their bones growing too big for the surrounding muscles or shifting to be far too small in comparison. It hurt like hell. Whumpee couldn't have moved if they tried, nose bleeding from the simple effort of staying alive.

Whumpee was in so much pain, in fact, that they didn't process Caretaker's presence until their cheeks were cupped gently, directing their ever shifting gaze onto her forever constant figure.

They couldn't hear her very well, but they caught the word "help."

Whumpee trusted Caretaker with their life. They had to. She was the one responsible for their wellbeing each day.

They fought the best they could, which was made slightly easier by the promise of an end. Caretaker would fix this. They always did.

Whumpee heard themself scream, a strangled cry caused by one of their carpals growing so large it broke through their skin. It quickly vanished once more, but the damage was done. They were getting blood all over themself and couldn't do anything about it.

So when a sharp pain erupted in their thigh, they believed it to be another bone. This was until it all stopped. Everything came to a standstill.

Whumpee started to fall sideways and found themself supported by Caretaker. Thinking about her, they turned their head and did their best to not get anything on her when they threw up. The world was spinning and nothing was okay.

"Hey! Whumpee! Stay with me." Caretaker called out, supporting them and doing their best to staunch the bleeding of their hand.

Whumpee stabilized slightly and slowly started making the effort of going to a stable form. First was their eyes, an action they regretted, now faced with the concern filling Caretaker's entire figure.

They mumbled incomprensibly, adjusted their ears slightly, and weakly spoke, "I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize. You've done nothing wrong." She comforted, her voice calm and steady as she half rose to take the first aid kit from the desk beside them.

"I messed up your thing..." their eyes were drawn to the dose of medicine which would have prevented this entire ordeal, had he not dropped it.

"I know you would never do that on purpose, Whumpee. It's okay. I'm just happy you're alive." She unscrewed the cap of her cleaning alcohol and looked to them with a slight pain in their expression, "Are you able to readjust your hand before I clean it up?"

Whumpee released a strangled cry as they changed back the proportions of their hand. They let Caretaker clean the wound, crying weakly as they realized how much of a mess they were.

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Taglist: @tildeathiwillwrite @mellowwhumps @crimsons-whump-pile @aloafofbreadwithanxiety @whumperofworlds

[asdpawprint]

my new phone has an "extra dim" setting in accessibility and I am THRILLED

[robbinnnnn]

last friday I got sick from video class. Today I got sick at the museum.

Art people/institutions: please put seizure warnings on your videos! Not just the ones with flashy lights or many colours. Also the ones with shaky cameras or immersive technology. Find a way to check if they trigger seizures and motion sickness! Test them out in advance! Maybe find some people who can pre-view and give you feedback regarding this issue!

Honestly, seizure screening would be a job I'd sign up for, if it could prevent others from getting triggered. I can't tell you how often I had to walk out of a museum or gallery feeling nauseous, it just ruins the experience :(