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Also, we sometimes like the dark.
Would you like it if you were in a room with a comfortable lighting level and changed the lighting level to suit ourselves without saying anything first?
I want a secret button that makes the room 100x brighter than normal lights so when this happens I can come back with, “idk how can you see in such dark spaces?” Then close my eyes and initate Operation Surface of the Sun.
With home assistant and enough LED drivers you probably could.
90% of the time, the explanation is “I was doing a thing that didnt require external light source and didnt notice the sun went down.”
lol I don’t bother to explain I usually just say “nothing” I don’t owe anyone an explanation for why I want the lights off
yeah but even if i did notice the sun went down i prefer to stay in the dark as long as it’s not necessary to have light
Is there a eye-strain-related reason that the lights should be turned on in this circumstance? I find myself in this position a lot, not realizing the screen is way brighter than it needs to be for the brightness in the area.
I like to be in the dark and with screen at minimal brightness, all light is the enemy
I don’t believe the iPhone screen gets dark enough. I’ve had mine on its lowest possible setting since I got it, and I still sometimes want to make it darker. Thank goodness so many sites have “dark mode” nowadays.
Check under accessibility settings, there’s a mode called “Reduce White Point” that will make it even darker. It’s great. You can add a toggle for it in your control center so it’s easy to switch on/off
Coworkers like 75% spectrum. Office is DARK
When we have meetings, boss comes in and opens the blinds. We scurry around like roaches
I used to work in an IT call center like that. It wasn’t even dark it was just dim because no one wanted the light over their desk turned on. There was enough light from the kitchenette area and the walkways to easily see. We got a new manager that hated that we all wanted the lights off so she used like 3 people who complained about it (and were in a corner of the room with the lights on so… stfu) as a pretext to do a poll to keep the rest of the lights turned on. She came back saying there was “a lot of” support for turning the lights on so now it was required but refused to release the results. Immediately lost all respect from the room. She would have eventually anyway because she was a shit manager but that was like right out of the gate.
She showed her true colours immediately. Didn’t care about the people in the team.
We used to keep the light off in the tech bullpen. There were no windows but enough lights from the screens to keep people from tripping over themselves walking to their desks. Fucking director level POS hated it. When he didn’t have anything to do he’d come back there and loudly exclaim “I don’t see how y’all can work in the dark!”
It’s almost like different people work different ways and have different levels of comfort. I can deal with either just fine but damn, don’t just loudly pronounce shit and change the environment immediately. That absolutely stops pretty much everyone from working because they want to bitch about how it’s different now.
I think it was 50/50 not giving a shit about the comfort of others and wanting attention because he was as useless as a bag of used microplastics.
Lol people see me in the dark with a laptop and backlit keyboard and are like "how can you see / read in the dark?
Like wtf it’s backlit. IDC what’s happening in this - until recently - otherwise uninhabited room.
I have a backlit keyboard, but the light is always off. If you can’t type by feel and you work on a computer then what the hell are you doing? I will never understand how people can’t work on a light up screen in the dark.
I don’t need a backlight for normal typing, but I switch between laptop / pc / keyboards with different layouts and it’s nice to be able to see where the volume controls or the home / end buttons have run off to. Also I like the pretty colors.
Oh, that’s easy:
They can barely type without looking at the keyboard.
They don’t actually know how to type.
This is still shockingly common amongst Boomers and even Gen Xrs… they never actually learned how to properly type.
And now this is at least somewhat wrapping back around to Gen Z, who can type like a speed demon on a touchpad, but not on a keyboard.
We did that as interns. Our official response was the light was causing interference with the testing and needed to be off.
The light isn’t being turned on for your sake.
Often it is
But maybe I don’t appreciate their presence and should wait their turn :)
No action whatsoever is being done purely for someone else’s sake.
But they are quite likely in the dark for their sake and sudden bright light is not okay.
I never said it was. I just said why the light was flipped on.
No one asked why the light was flipped on
This is one of my great sensitivities. I can’t drive without sunglasses. My eyes will tear up and I’m unable to keep them open.
I’m with you. Do you get it at the movies too? IMAX is too much but if I go to a smaller screen theatre I’m usually ok.
No not in theaters unless it’s a really bright scene like an explosion.
Going outside to let my dogs out in the AM is genuinely painful! The dark to light is SHOCKING mentally and physically, I used polarized glasses for driving for the same reason you do. I find certain kinds of lights to be agitating even not just uncomfortable or painful
I have a different idea what dark rooms are for I guess
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You’re completely misreading this because you’re assuming our brains work the same as neuro-typical brains when it comes to status seeking. The vast majority of autistic people couldn’t care less about asserting a “cool flex”. The whole point of posts like this is just to say, “this thing that you see as different is because we’re different then you NTs and this is why”. Being different is only inherently cool if you’re an NT. We NEVER win that game, so we don’t play it.
In other words, this post is saying “don’t tread on me because I’m different than you. There’s a reason I do it this way.” Your response is essentially “you’re actually just like us, so you should just assimilate and learn to be like us. StOp bEinG So EDgy!”
Also, this IS “the weird kid coming out into the light”. You just don’t like that what that looks like isn’t what you expected or, apparently, wanted. No, the world wouldn’t be a better place if everyone just saw it the way you do. That’s an incredibly immature and self-centered perspective.
If it seems like I’m irked by your comment, it’s because I am. This is the exact BS NT people are always trying to cram down our throats without realizing how harmful it is to us. Just let people be who they are. We don’t need the entire human race to look and function in pure homogeneous order.
I know it took pain to write that, and thankfully the original comment that inspired it has been removed, but I wanted to thank you for writing your piece. From start to finish, you nailed your point, and I feel personally vindicated by reading your words. I’ve had to make the same argument so many times, for so many people who can’t seem to comprehend that my differences aren’t deliberate choices. In fact, sometimes I don’t even realize I’m being “different.”
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that your comment resonated with me strongly. I saved it for the next time I encounter this sort of situation, because you phrased things so perfectly that I don’t think I can improve on it. Thank you.
Aw thanks haha. I’m glad you liked it. :)
It’s really not about being “the weird kid”, some of us just legitimately have light sensitivity. Me and all my siblings have it, cause my mom has it. My dad is the only one who likes bright lights and the rest of us prefer darker lighting. Well I do like the sun, so not always, but most indoor lighting feels way brighter than sunlight and feels strange on my eyes.
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That’s the annoying part. It’s not performative.
From my perspective, it’s like most people just mindlessly stumble through the world how they’ve been taught. They turn on lights not because they need it, but because it’s normal. They trust the label on the back of products over their own lived experience of using it.
I like the dark. I like the sun. I like being able to see. I see just fine in the dark. Excess artificial lights make it so I see less. This isn’t a me problem, this is you projecting
I’m not being weird or edgy. I’m not inviting you to comment, I’m being comfortable. I’m so tired of pretending, it’s fucking exhausting. I don’t need to come into the light, I want to be acceped as I am, not what you think I should be. If you ask genuinely wanting to understand, I’d explain that I like it. I’m so tired of explaining myself to people asking “why are you sitting in the dark?”
“The world only exists in the way I experience it, and everyone else is a ‘weird kid’.”
- You
Perhaps you should realise that it’s not all about people trying to be weird, sometimes it’s just ordinary life. Nothing needs fixing, no one needs to get better.
Maybe your comment was bait, but still needs saying.
“Why don’t you ever come out of your room?” flashbacks, lol
I just hiss as I retreat under the bed.
In my old gym there was a guy who liked to turn the lights off and then take showers in the mens locker room.
Neurodivergent or not, that’s really weird.
Nah, dark showers are actually peak. I have my eyes closed for most of the time anyways. Unless I’m doing something like shaving, there’s no reason to have the lights on.
I wouldn’t do it in public though…
I wouldn’t do it in public though…
By all means, do your thing in the privacy of your own home. No shame in that.
I used to have these cheap, waterproof light ball things, that could be either red, green, blue, or a slow transition between all three. They were designed for use in a pool, but I got them for my shower.
They were absolutely perfect. If I was having trouble sleeping and decided to take a shower (which sometimes help me sleep), I could keep my night vision intact by setting the light balls to red. They provided plenty of light for me.
I moved houses since then, however, and haven’t seen them in years. I’m going to have to look around pool toy sections soon, see if I can find something else like them.
I’m guessing he is just self conscious. I never really liked showering around others. Even when I was really fit
That could be. My first thought was… what’s he doing in there that not having the light on is a necessity?
Why weren’t the lights already off?
In a public bathroom? Safety, don’t need people bumping into stuff, slipping and falling, not seeing what they could grab to break the fall etc
Hum… Yeah… That’d be me. The creature of the night. Not rave n’ disco night… More like, night night. Even during the day.
Furthermore, other people turning OFF a light that’s in another room because that’s the precise amount of light I want where I’m at. Absolutely infuriating.
Doesn’t matter if they’re neurodivergent at all, it’s rude to flashbang anyone like that
Tell that to any phone with the fingerprint reader behind the screen.
Apparently thumbs can now only be scanned by harnessing the power of the fucking sun.
Another reason why my previous phone was better than my current one: backside fingerprint scanner. Infinitely superior to a screenside fingerprint scanner, as I was able to unlock my phone in the same motion as picking it up or removing it from my pocket. With a screenside fingerprint scanner, it is no longer more convenient than just inputting the lock code.
My new pet hate is that I’ll unlock it with a finger print, go to do a contactless card payment, and then it demands the fingerprint again, because it turns out the original unlock was the face detection, which is a lot faster than fingerprints but not secure enough for a small payment.
I’d turn that off, but then it just takes ages every time I unlock my phone rather than the once or twice a day I need to buy something.
Huh? My s21+ screen reads my thumbprint with the screen off
or worse, using face unlock in the dark
