Published on 12, July, 2020
It's either wrap up warm and spend time outside or Wetherspoons. I'm particularly bummed out about libraries. I love libraries but every single one is kitted out with flourescent lights and in the winter even the ones with big windows and natural light have them on all day. My county has an access scheme where if you can't access libraries a volunteer can select books for you and bring them to your house. So I'm going to sign up for this. I still can't access research materials I need to be in the actual library to access, but it might help with the isolation. Apparently they often stick around for a cup of tea and a chat. It makes me feel like I want to go on holiday somewhere where the libraries have autistic friendly design but I'm not sure if there is a single one that exists yet? The best libraries I ever went to are in Denmark but they still have florescent lights.
I'm spending as much time in the library as possible as it's the only place with decent lighting. My home is so dimly lit it makes me feel sick, even after adding floodlight I bought on Amazon. Pubs are dingy, outside is dark by 4pm. I crave more light.
Fluorescent lighting is horrible isn't it? I've noticed they are in most shops, always in hospitals and now in the GP Surgery. I have an autoimmune disease and every winter I end up in hospital and the lighting is worse than the health upsets.
I saw daffodils growing in the garden and it's been warming up here. Spring is coming! Something to look forward to.
I guess I must be different as I quite like the light. I have my big light on most of the time instead of lamps. As the dark is depressing for me. I like night clubs with lots of flashing lights and strobe lights. I don’t like the darkness at all. As for sensitivity. I have pin sensitivity that seems to be responsible for my other sensitivities. If im in pain then everything annoys me. Like the tv being too loud for instance.
Nature is restorative and undemanding.
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It's frustrating enough to have to wear ear plugs everywhere - electric cars, scooters, buses and their high pitched buzzing, lights buzzing, hand dryers at 124dB, crosswalks, screeching breaks, rails and so on.
A world without any natural heat-source based light in the evening sends me home where I temper the warm and properly dispersed LEDs with Halogen for a full-spectrum of natural light.
Car lights fitted with xenon/laser lights are supposed to be illegal and shrugged off if they're imported. The strobe lights at the Pret counter, on bicycles, in shops when they're flickering a death knell, beams from cars who are just stopped on the side of the road, the lasers fitted on footpaths, the half orb in the ceilings at stations and M&S... it's too much! If I'm out too long at night I end up home with a migraine. A few Library nearby have been recently fitted with these high impact lasers overhead and they just point directly at the top of the eye between the cornea & retina. And no one else seems to think it's a problem?!
totally agree. White LEDs are the worst. I hate the ones on the side of cabinets in shops. They're just lasers. They're so painful. It's got so much worse in the last 5 years, I feel like I'm being quietly pushed out of society.SUCKS about library closures, I'm so sorry to hear that. The good side of this is that it's made me motivated to become better at spending extended time outdoors in nature.
Don't get me started! I like the dark but it seems no one else around here does. It's the white LED lights I struggle with. There's too much light pollution and its rmessing with nature. Don't go to the libraries cos most have been closed here.