Thursday photo prompt – Twilight – #writephoto
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Thursday photo prompt – Twilight – #writephoto
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For most people, twilight is a frightening time. For me, the picture above is peaceful and soothing.
Until my eye surgeries 17 years ago, I could drive better at midnight while wearing dark glasses than most people can drive during the day. With the moonlight shining behind me, I didn’t need headlights.
How do I explain light sensitivity? It’s like being dilated for an eye exam every minute of your life. Try walking around in the bright sun after leaving the optometrists office without using those throw-away sunglasses you’re given. Only then can you begin to understand in how many ways light can cause pain.
Fluorescent light shimmers into migraines, sunlight stabs the eyes, I have more names for headaches than a Canadian has for snow, and my home is a cave to most people.
God forbid I have to read anything off of yellow paper. Computers helped make the job interview easier, but there are still things I have to disclose. Try telling your prospective employer, “I’ll have to use green paper to write on, and all the fluorescent lights near my area have to be removed.”
I guarantee, it doesn’t go over well.
There is always someone with the same skills who doesn’t find that half-opened blinds provide more than enough light while everyone else is squinting to see. I can tell you so many stories!
Most people go shopping when it’s dark and no one thinks it’s funny. “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades,” and “I wear my sunglasses at night,” became songs as hated as “It’s a small, small world.” My heart goes out to people with names like Justin Thyme or Page Turner who have heard the same stale jokes for decades.
I wish that the world had to live in an environment that was comfortable for me…for just one day. I could wear clear glasses instead of these:
And life wouldn’t be such a constant headache.
ohhh. Dawn over Marblehead. Hence your Carrot Ranch flash. Thanks for sharing.
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I did Dawn first and Twilight second. Some days one just has to have a good rant the second time around. 🙂
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Wow, I didn’t know about your light sensitivity issue. Thank you for sharing, very brave. Helps to remind us all not to make snap judgements about people (why is she wearing sunglasses inside for God’s sake! – Bet you’ve heard that one before).
As someone who has light sensitivity ONLY when a migraine hits, I truly feel for you. Lucky, you look awesome in sunglasses!
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Thanks. 🙂 The dark glasses also prevent migraines and cluster headaches.
People do make judgments. I remember being at a night club and going into the ladies room. I was in a stall when 2 women started laughing about the woman in dark glasses. I emerged from my stall and told them why I wore them. The answer? “We didn’t mean anything by it.” To which I replied, “If you didn’t mean anything by it, why did you say it?” They grumbled as if I were the problem and walked out the door.
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Ugh. I hate both cluster headaches and small minded people.
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I suffered with migraines for years and was light sensitive but never on such a scale as you. I feel for you.
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I usually don’t say a lot about it, but have learned from experience that sometimes you have to be the squeaky wheel to prevent a migraines. 🙂
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You would so love 24 hour supermarkets, but yes I get your point. I squint a lot in summer on bright days. Friends will suggest I wear sunglasses? It’s then so dark I can’t see at all due to only having half the eyesight. Can not win! Cheers,H
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The 24 hour supermarkets usually have fluorescent lighting. Ugh. Another tool I use (which you can see at the top of my blogsite) is a cap with extra long shading over the eyes. That can be as much help as dark glasses.
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I see from the comments that the story is true. We take for granted that what we can see is all there is to experience, rather than just a part of it, until we find someone who sees things differently.
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That’s my writing secret — seeing things differently. 🙂
I don’t always rant like this. Most of the time I try to find humor in things. When I saw the picture, I longed so for a world full of people who could see it as I do & I just had to let it all out.
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I love and always appreciate it when you offer these open and honest peeks into your world. Thanks for sharing so eloquently what must be a daily pain in the @*#$. 😊
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Thanks for letting me know. 🙂
It’s great to work in a place where people don’t turn on the light until they look in the office and see if I’m there (that’s an instant migraine). I work with the world’s nicest people. 🙂
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Thank goodness for small blessings.
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