#fluorescent lights

[finntography]

[sodomy-and-the-boyscouts]

Does anyone else with autism literally not know what sensory things are bothering them unless they somehow find out or make a sustained effort to know what it is?

Like, I see all these posts that will be like “i can’t x because the light is too loud” or “my scalp hurts” or something, and that’s fine because those are the reasons that these feelings are happening, but oftentimes when I’m in a situation I have just mentally unconsciously blocked out whatever it is, like say it’s a repetitive buzzing from a light, i’ll just be PISSED and I won’t know why, and then i’ll realize i’m pissed, and then maybe I’ll step too close and hear the light buzzing and be like “OH”.

Like I feel like I’m never right away conscious of what’s bothering me, or even that something IS bothering me, I just start acting out for what feels like no reason.

Like, it genuinely took me YEARS to realize that why i’m so uncomfortable in certain places is because of how loud fluorescent lights are. (like, I know they light a space well, but I can’t be the only one that is bothered by such loud appliances, I feel like a know many neurotypical people who should also be upset over a buzzing light. why did we, as a society, decide to install vibrating lights everywhere?)

[thegikitiki]

Welcome to the Executive Suite of Beige Supremacy. It is 1973, and the visible color spectrum has been legally restricted to mustard, avocado, and "tobacco stain brown." This office features a sofa upholstered in "television static chic" and enough heavy polyester drapery to successfully suffocate a corporate scandal. The aggressive overhead lighting grid ensures that there are absolutely no shadows, nowhere to hide, and no escape from the crushing reality of pre-digital paperwork. You can practically smell the static electricity, Old Spice, and unventilated cigarette smoke just looking at this image. This is where decisions were made; slowly, comfortably, and entirely analog.

Sourced from the April 1973 issue of Interior Design magazine.

[gzabu]

[khaoticemerald]

[nanmo-wakaran]

tubelights as seen by my phone camera (credit if u use)

[lj012-photography]

A photo of a gas station, I always found em supper neat

[gothicseverance]

Too many Gothic plots concern elusion and desperate struggles to escape surveillance for us to ignore the problematic alliance between light and (…) corporeal and/or psychological vulnerability.

—Gothic Light

Gif by @maxanor 🖤