Glasses with blue lenses

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Blue!

I'm working on getting blue lenses currently. Have been tested by the Irlen Syndrome people and have overlays from them (aqua/aqua/grey).

I greatly improved my balance by taking ballet classes.

I wear blue tint glasses to filter glare due to sensory overload mainly when out side or in shopping centers.

Although not for purpose of eye contact -I do not give a damn about making eye contact-, I do like wearing sunglasses with a coloured tint when it is too bright outside. I like lighter tints; orange or yellow or pink. Polarized lenses decrease the glare without decreasing the overall light level. It's the glare that really bothers me as far as light sensitivity goes.

My daughter is going for an eye test at this place on Saturday. http://www.jordanseyes.com/index.htm
I'll feedback about the outcome. If all goes well, chances are I'll be making an appointment for myself (and my husband, if he'll agree to it).

The optician also claims that his method can help with face-blindness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g ... t-13807268

When I was in my early 20s, my optician advised me to get glasses with a blue tint. He said I had extra large pupils, so would benefit from the light being cut down. I can't recall them helping in any other way, but I can't say I was looking out for that then.

Are these the lenses Donna Williams wrote about?

This thread is very interesting, I've never heard of this "irlen syndrome" before, or the blue lenses idea. It would explain a lot of the perceptual problems I have - I am very sensitive to visual "noise", (colours, patterns, textures, and contrasting elements in my environment). I always assumed this was part of my autistic symptoms, but I've noticed that other autistic people only tend to refer to light sensitivity, rather than the kind of visual sensitivities I have. Thank you to those who brought it up.

Can anyone recommend a good place in the UK to purchase glasses like these?

The ones Robert Downey Jr. wear are probably what you are looking for. Maybe you can get them custom fitted to your frame at a glasses store.

I only know of the place in Ayr, where you'd be tested and prescribed the lens tint to help you specifically (see my post above). There are a few others who do the testing, not many. But, you can get tinted lenses from any optician.

This. I'm very sensitive to the same kinds of visual 'noise' as Jinks. I'm also easily distracted by things that move in my field of vision, even out on the edges, such as birds flying past or tree branches moving in the wind outside the window. And reflections in my glasses of things behind me. I had problems with this in school, looking out the window instead of at the teacher half the time. I'm also very sensitive to light, though, and prefer to read in dim light and avoid books with shiny white paper. It might be worth a try for me to get some colored clip-on glasses, as I would love to improve my reading experience.

Their claims seem like nonsense to me.

Ever since I saw this topic I've been thinking about this. I remember their commercials from when I was younger.

http://www.blublocker.com/

If blue tinted lenses are good why would you want to block blue? I'm curious.

Modern marketing could be the reason -- convince someone that they need your product irregardless of the merits of the claims.

I once had yellowish-pink lenses, actually very expensive and didn't habe anything to do with Irlen, but I really liked them.
I once had blue lenses and got headache.

My colour I prefere to read on is tourquise.

Yes, I have some problems with this too. Not too bad though. It's just little things; for instance, I can't read if there are things moving around in the background of my field of view. People walking around, or cars, or if I am on the bus or riding as passenger in a car. If there are animated gifs or ads next to an online article, I use noscript to block them or I copy the text into a text editor so I can read it without the distraction.

I've spoken to three Mums, who say their children's lives have been transformed. So, I'm willing to give it a go. There's no cost to us, as the NHS are satisified that it works, so they'll pay for the test and any glasses.