yeah but even if i did notice the sun went down i prefer to stay in the dark as long as it’s not necessary to have light

Is there a eye-strain-related reason that the lights should be turned on in this circumstance? I find myself in this position a lot, not realizing the screen is way brighter than it needs to be for the brightness in the area.

Agreed, I love this part of long drives to out of the way destinations. Definitely better in older cars without obnoxious touch screens.

I enjoy some games that can simulate this too, like Elite Dangerous scooting around in the lander on the dark side of some barren planet deep in uninhabited space. Not the same as the real thing of course, but I still enjoy it.

Yes! Please let me be part of the flesh devouring hive mind colony that likes books and lives in the dark.

Tell that to any phone with the fingerprint reader behind the screen.

Apparently thumbs can now only be scanned by harnessing the power of the fucking sun.

I like the way they worded it as if you were misplaced by them. Ah shoot, where did I leave my nuerodivergent again? Probably left them next to my keys in the kitchen.

“leave me to do my dark bidding in peace”.
“Oh, what are you bidding on?”.
“A table”

Normally I just hisss

I used to work in an IT call center like that. It wasn’t even dark it was just dim because no one wanted the light over their desk turned on. There was enough light from the kitchenette area and the walkways to easily see. We got a new manager that hated that we all wanted the lights off so she used like 3 people who complained about it (and were in a corner of the room with the lights on so… stfu) as a pretext to do a poll to keep the rest of the lights turned on. She came back saying there was “a lot of” support for turning the lights on so now it was required but refused to release the results. Immediately lost all respect from the room. She would have eventually anyway because she was a shit manager but that was like right out of the gate.

We used to keep the light off in the tech bullpen. There were no windows but enough lights from the screens to keep people from tripping over themselves walking to their desks. Fucking director level POS hated it. When he didn’t have anything to do he’d come back there and loudly exclaim “I don’t see how y’all can work in the dark!”

It’s almost like different people work different ways and have different levels of comfort. I can deal with either just fine but damn, don’t just loudly pronounce shit and change the environment immediately. That absolutely stops pretty much everyone from working because they want to bitch about how it’s different now.

I think it was 50/50 not giving a shit about the comfort of others and wanting attention because he was as useless as a bag of used microplastics.

We did that as interns. Our official response was the light was causing interference with the testing and needed to be off.

Why are you standing in a brightly lit room, do you need to be seen or something?

I’m guessing he is just self conscious. I never really liked showering around others. Even when I was really fit

Why weren’t the lights already off?

Nah, dark showers are actually peak. I have my eyes closed for most of the time anyways. Unless I’m doing something like shaving, there’s no reason to have the lights on.

I wouldn’t do it in public though…

People: just trying to live their lives

This dickhead: “you should be ashamed for being different. Maybe if you were normal the world would be a better place”

It’s really not about being “the weird kid”, some of us just legitimately have light sensitivity. Me and all my siblings have it, cause my mom has it. My dad is the only one who likes bright lights and the rest of us prefer darker lighting. Well I do like the sun, so not always, but most indoor lighting feels way brighter than sunlight and feels strange on my eyes.

You’re completely misreading this because you’re assuming our brains work the same as neuro-typical brains when it comes to status seeking. The vast majority of autistic people couldn’t care less about asserting a “cool flex”. The whole point of posts like this is just to say, “this thing that you see as different is because we’re different then you NTs and this is why”. Being different is only inherently cool if you’re an NT. We NEVER win that game, so we don’t play it.

In other words, this post is saying “don’t tread on me because I’m different than you. There’s a reason I do it this way.” Your response is essentially “you’re actually just like us, so you should just assimilate and learn to be like us. StOp bEinG So EDgy!”

Also, this IS “the weird kid coming out into the light”. You just don’t like that what that looks like isn’t what you expected or, apparently, wanted. No, the world wouldn’t be a better place if everyone just saw it the way you do. That’s an incredibly immature and self-centered perspective.

If it seems like I’m irked by your comment, it’s because I am. This is the exact BS NT people are always trying to cram down our throats without realizing how harmful it is to us. Just let people be who they are. We don’t need the entire human race to look and function in pure homogeneous order.

“The world only exists in the way I experience it, and everyone else is a ‘weird kid’.”

• You

Perhaps you should realise that it’s not all about people trying to be weird, sometimes it’s just ordinary life. Nothing needs fixing, no one needs to get better.

Maybe your comment was bait, but still needs saying.

Haha I used to get this from grandma who always complains about the electric bill. Like im trying to save money!