Nah you good i didn't think so, I'm just sharing my personal thoughts on the matter
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nice try but mine are dimmable
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.
My office used to do this, until upper management caught wind and threw an absolute fit over it. Then they paid the building manager to come in and remove the lightswitches so we couldn't turn the lights off ever again, there's literally an alarm that goes off if the circuit is broken.
Yay for having a mild headache every single day!
What a flock of raging assholes. How did they justify forcing working conditions like that on you that you clearly did not want? Did they offer any excuse for doing that?
Dunce here, I don't get the joke. Can somebody explain? Are ceiling lights something ND people don't like?
Not universally but yeah. Ceiling lights can be really bad for overstimulation, so a lot of ND people will prefer to never turn an overhead light on in favour of using lamps/natural light.
Is that why i prefer the dim desk light lighting the wall and almost never use the main lamp?
At least with my own anecdotal evidence, it's also color temp. "Daylight" bulbs seem to be more of an issue.
I prefer bright but warmer light
I really should see a psychotherapist, I think.
Thanks!
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
When did Nero divergent become a thing? Last couple months it's everywhere. Never even heard of it before then...
It started taking off in 2018, https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F043mzm&date=all&geo=US.
It has existed for a while but has been getting more mainstream ik recent years.
Its a good term because it comes from the community itself rather then being a medical label by a doctor so its inclusive to people with or without diagnosis.
It also covers many more neurological differences that are not, yet frequently overlap with, autism. adhd, dyslexia,… You dont need to self identify as sick or disabled it often just feels better for me.
Makes sense, thanks.
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
Ceiling light is best light.
All these fucking mood lighting I see people talk about make you look like some kind of underlit villain, or like you're telling goosebumps stories around the world's mildest campfire.
Why am I the only neurodivergent person who finds floor lights fucking disgusting ???
Sorry but no.
Desklamp is where it's at. Can't stand ceiling lights if they are behind me.
I prefer not to be lit like a b-movie villain, when I'm walking around in my own home, but you do you.
Im quite Neurodivergent and i absolutely love harsh overhead lighting, i want to be bathed in light
Im pretty sure by mood lighting they aren't referring to lights built into the actual floor. I think they just mean less intense lighting like lamps, string lights or LED color lighting.
I don't even think I've ever seen a house with floor lighting indoors
I'm not talking about descriptions, I'm talking about pictures and videos.
And I'm not talking about lighting set into the floor, I mean like floor lamps and shit.
They put these laps on shelves and desks and standing on the floor, but they're almost always below eye level when standing, so everyone looks like a b-movie villain as they move about the room. It drives me crazy.
Give me an overhead area light. Soft shadows from light cast downward onto my face.
I mean I guess I could see that, I'm sure everyone has their own preferences about lighting.
Though I will say most of the floor lamps in my house do rise above a person who's standing up, otherwise they have a light pointing down.
You're right wrt personal preference. It's just strange to me how seemingly all the neurodivergents but me hate overhead lighting 😭
Floor lamps that are above head height are... Ok I guess, but that's still mostly head-on. Light that is clearly cast down is so much more satisfying. Personal preference, of course.
And to be clear I don't have anything against mood lighting or accent lights, I like them... Just not only them.
The impression I have (mainly from social media like tiktok and Lemmy) is that the desired lighting is head high and below which just... Puts me in a tailspin lol. Idk how people can live like that 🤣
In my ideal room, there would be indirect overhead lighting that illuminated most of the ceiling to provide an indirect overhead area light, with a near-head level accent lights. I've looked into if I could use a short-throw projector onto the ceiling to provide some kind of crazy configurable overhead lighting, but they're simply not meant for that kind of application
Cruel and unusual punishment
Shouldn't that be "photodivergent"?
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