Fluorescent Lighting & AS

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I can't think clearly under florescent lights and i feel ill-at-ease..They have to be well dispersed in order for me to tolerate them...

Has anyone had any luck explaining this feeling to others, without getting a judgmental response?

Saying "these lights are making me ill I can't work/take this exam/etc." doesn't seem to work.

I've never tried, since even saying "these lights are making me ill" to people I know isn't met well.

it's the flickering of fluorescents that bothers me most.

i like candles a lot, but flickering sometimes bothers me with candles too.

anything striped in my peripheral vision will flicker though, also. if i'm wearing something with thin stripes on it, for example, and trying to read, i will have to cover the stripes or change my clothes.

how do you do this?

I find that I have the exact same problem myself: people just don't understand why some things bother me, so they get upset.

those lights usually knocked me out in school. the teacher tried to make an example of me one day because I had my head on my desk. It was biology and he was talking about "osmosis" he thought I wasn't paying attention at all and napping but I was paying attention though I had a wicked migraine from those fool lights. So the teacher's plan to embarrass me backfired on him when I said the correct answer. Ah that was a sweet victory moment.

When I attended school, half the classrooms had old style lighting with glass globes containing round bulbs. The other half of the school building had been upgraded to fluorescent strip lighting.
Interestingly I did not achieve good results in subjects where there was strip lighting.

At home I use modern eco-bulbs all placed in uplighters to reduce glare.

They have never actually bothered me. The only kind of light that I'm not too keen on is the light produced by the sun.

What about LED lights.

I also heard from Ms Temple Grandin that laptop screen do not flicker.. is that true?