Colour Issues

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Just wondering,does anyone else have problems relaxing in certain rooms based on their colour and decoration? There's this one room in my doctors office that drives me crazy. Its orange, with a white and black checkered floor and bright yellow furniture.

It drive's me up the wall, I can't sit in that room and pace and wander and get jittery,so she puts me in the blue room instead and it's a lot better.

Anyone else have this as well?

I feel the same way, as well. I find that oranges, reds and yellows get me wound up, and that blues, greens and purples calm me down.

I hate highlighted rooms. I hate fake light during the day. Especially in white room. With shiny surfaces. It hurts!

Without too much light, colours don't hurt.

I don't like bright colours. I prefer dark toned earth colours. Im my centrelink office (that's where I used to go to get my government money) there was an Aboriginal painting that I could stare at for hours. I had to wait in line for a long time so I literally did stare at it for hours. There weren't really any bright colours. Even the red were dark and earthy.

It seems to be the bright colours or "violent" colours that are the worst

Someone decided to paint this office for my mums bank lime green with blue writing on the walls

Who does that?!?

I just walk past the room with my eyes shut,otherwise I'll get hyper and uncontrollable.

Never noticed anything with fake light myself,but I've always found my strong reaction to colour can be problematic since we can't always control what colour something is going to be

I'm pretty sure NTs have this problem too, we just suffer more from it because we're more sensitive to that sort of thing.

I accidentally bought red light bulbs and the light they put out does something weird with my mind.

Fluorescent lighting and that ugly 70s institutional style of building makes me extremely agitated.

There is this hands-on science museum in San Francisco, called The Exploratorium. One of the exhibits shows how color change influence how you feel. In the exhibit, you sit down on a chair and lower a lit dome over your head. Then, with your hand, you turn a dial which changes the color of the light in the dome. So, you'll be sitting there completely surrounded by, say, pink, and then you'll change it to yellow, then green. I remember that there was a bluish-green color, the color of Baskin-Robbins daiquiri ice, which gave me a total feeling of calm. There was another color which made me feel really annoyed, but I don't remember which color it was. It's not that the other color was an ugly color or the bluish-green was particularly pretty, but being totally surrounded in each color definitely triggered an emotional response that went beyond conscious thought. Also, in order to trigger the response, the color had to be very precise.