Autism and Eye Strain?

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I've always been a fan of super bright super saturated colors. Like, late 2000's scene kid myspace levels of rainbows and bright colors. Whenever I see people talk about super bright saturated colors, they always talk about how they hurt their eyes, and how they get "Eye Strain" from them. But I myself have never actually gotten eye strain from super bright colors and the like! I'm wondering if this is an autism/aspie thing since on tumblr I've seen a ton of rainbowcore, kidcore, and scenecore blogs that are run by people with autism, and those things are filled with bright colors, much to my delight! So... Does anyone else not have any problems with rainbows and bright, saturated colors and the like, or is it just me?

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I relate - you should see my indoor lighting - I have a bunch of color-tunable LED light strips that I keep set to a deep yellow-orange, and a number of red LED lamps plus a red LED set of christmas lights wrapped around a brick pillar. These are very easy on my eyes and also pleasing to me - like I can look into the deep, bright color and see something far in the distance, sort of inside my brain... I have my walls painted in near-primary colors - my bedroom is bright yellow, my living room is blue, my hall is green, and the area of my stairs is orange. All these produce no eye strain and they lift my mood. What gives me a lot of eye strain is white light - like the background of this web-page on my computer monitor. I minimize any white light in my house. When I look at white light it sort of turns into dancing fragments of colors and shapes and after awhile it starts to give me almost a headache. My bedroom ceiling is white and I covered it in a bunch of 4' x 6' printed mandalas / zodiac signs / suns and moons, etc. White and bright blue light actually produce some anxiety in me.

I am thoroughly enjoying the late 2000's myspace reference. That's great. I'm right there with you though. I love colors with a passion. I'm an artist and a photographer so it'd be a shame if I didn't. I do know when to use black and white and muted tones as well though. Personally though, the brighter the better my mood.

My taste in colours is only slightly flamboyant, but I often chastise people for using grey on grey text. We used to joke about the first LEDs being "grey on silver" but now, with contrast available, things are set to produce eye strain. This site would be barely tolerable if it wasn't for far worse examples. Are people too lazy to turn down monitor contrast, so weblords have to do it for them?

I like vivid colors but also subdued colors, the key being VARIETY. monochrome sucks IMHO. I keep multicolored xmas lights on inside my tin can, I strung up colored LED holiday lights on the interior walls, year-round, it makes for a cheerier place.

too much darkness [to see stuff] and too much brightness bother me, especially the latter, bright lights are glaring to my eyes.

I'm actually one of those people who does get eye strain from overly bright/saturated colors. Don't get me wrong, I think they are very pretty and I wish I could enjoy them but it gives me a headache to look at them.

Love color! I plan on getting music reactive led strips for around my living room. I Don't care for white light and prefer the dark. White/beige walls are disgusting. I have variations of green, red, yellow, orange, and blue in my house.