If there’s a bright light shining in your eyes then that’s probably painful or at least uncomfortable for most people. Presumably that’s why in TV dramas the detective interviews the suspect in a darkened room but with an angle poise lamp pointed right in their face. But I experience that sensation a lot more and at lower levels of light than most people. I literally spend the summer months squinting to try to keep the light out of my eyes and not just when looking towards the sun – and that’s wearing sunglasses as well.
Have you ever been accused of being a “mushroom” or told off for trying to keep the bright cheerful sun out? I have. I wish I didn’t have to – it’s just that sunshine in my eyes is really extremely uncomfortable and I can’t do anything until I’ve found a way to keep it out…
I know you love to see the light of sun
The clouds and blue skies brightly shining through
The window in the office – I’m not fun;
I pull the blinds and turn the lights down too.
Am I a vampire lurking in the dark?
So scared of light I must be rather odd
And frankly loving darkness is a mark
Of something sinister: the awkward squad.
Why should I lurk when others long to bask?
I must be selfish keeping out the light
A little cheeriness is all you ask
And long to let the sun in, make things bright.
I realise this but please do feel for me
The sunlight hurts my eyes – I cannot see.
Autistic Civil Servant 