Visual snow poll

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Yes I get visual snow as well as quite bad floaters. When I am focusing on something they sometimes fade into the background but are always there.

i don't know if this is visual snow or whatever but sometimes (mos often in public bathrooms oddly enough) i get an image of a concave grid of dots, bent away fro me. moving towards me, and i could make the dots move to the side at will. but always in a 90 degree angle.

I generally have some visual disturbance most of the time. Typing this now for instance there are moving swirls (very minute) and a little snow. I'm not sure if this is the same as getting a VS diagnosis, I don't know if they see things worse than I for instance.

I am also light sensitive though, lights are spiky and hurt my eyes, a car coming towards me, the headlights can block the entire front of the car so all I see is a blob of super spiky lights coming towards me. I need to get glasses..

Something I noticed during a power outage is that looking for stars is complicated when the entire sky is filled with pixelated flashing colored dots. Even without light pollution.

Yes, I experience both visual and audial static. Visual static is accompanied with after images and occasional migraine aura ( without headache ).

I am also extremely sensitive to light ( both eyes and skin ) and sound.

I didn't realise there were people out there who didn't experience this. I've always had it. I had a conversation about it with a friend when I was a teenager and because he experienced it too we just assumed that it was normal.

I have constant headaches too. Is this related?

I suffer from mild tinitus too. I asked my Dad about it when I was about 4 or 5 years old and he told me that I was just hearing the whine of electricity. It made me long for a life without electricity so I could be free of the sound. I've only recently realised that it is tinitus. I thought tinitus was a loud ringing, like a bell rather than a persistent whine.

Man, I'm really broken.

Wow....it seems like there is a very high percentage of Autistic people that suffer from Visual Snow syndrome. Very interesting.

I'm not surprised this isn't the norm *sigh* I have this too but I assumed to my nearsightedness. Static is a great way to put it. I also get floaters and was just researching about them today. The floaters are most noticeable when looking at white backgrounds and when I'm outside.

I doubt I have autism but I experience this as well. I wonder what if it's neurological? Couldn't read through all the posts in here bc I started to get the heebee jebees.

I'm not sure, but I suspect that tinnitus (constant high pitched tones in the ears) and visual snow have the same cause.

There's evidence that visual snow is caused by hyper-metabolism in a specific region of the visual cortex.

I chose no, then realised I do but only occasionally, I think.

I thought this was normal... Doesn't everyone see visual snow to some extent..?

I'm another who has visual snow and mild tinnitus, and I didn't know that either weren't things everyone experiences until later in life.

I do a lot of the time, but it was much worse in the past. I think it's actually helped a little by lamictal, which ironically causes an increase in floaters.

Apparently not!

I can't even imagine how different the world must look through "normal" eyes.

When I was little I told my mom I thought I have bad eyesight and she asked me why. I told her because I see fuzzy dots in front of my eyes. She told me that was normal. I have 20/15 vision which as my eye doctor puts it is "Hawk vision". He said there's only been one other person in his office with equal or better vision. 20/10 he says.

It's started dawning on my mother since my diagnosis that she has many of the same symptoms as I do. So we're like 95% certain that she has autism too. So I guess that could mean anything. My husband sees them also though and he's neurotypical. Perhaps it's simply something that goes unreported because no one really cares because it does not block one's field of vision?