It's Too Bright

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Like I say I am a U2 fan and in winter I wear a hat which is like The Edge's hat lol. Once I went to work and I kept my hat on all day and never took it off.

I grew up near Seattle and didn't mind the overcast days. Now I spend most of my time in Utah and Arizona and the sun can really start to get oppressive. I wear a big hat and shades most of the time and people either look at me like I'm Indian Jones or a complete nut case. I've been like this for 50 plus years and find my own oddities amusing.

It's your life mate

I wear a hat and sunglasses all day, even inside, to block the light.

It's probably because of the UV. Most glasses (normal or sun-) block out UV, so especially switching from glasses to contacts will exaggerate this. Again, contacts do not block out UV light.

People keep bugging me for closing one eye outdoors, so I try to not do that with a lot of people around. I really wish I could find some good sun-shades soon.

It's not my eyes that get bothered by sunshine, it's my skin. I'll burn if I get too much. If the sun gets real bright I'll just put on su nglasses like everyone else. I'm a nightworker, so my commute is at night and early morning--- this is better for me.

The sun is far too bright in Manchester today. I can't find my sunglasses either. We went for a walk down the canal today and I squinted the whole time, which gave me a headache. The last holiday we had (in Wales in the 30 degree heat) we spent all of our time outside so I constantly had to wear a sunhat, sunglasses and factor 50+ suncream. I also had to drink twice as much water as usual (which is a lot) because my body refuses to adapt to temperature! I spent the nights being sick because my temperature was so high, in Wales!!

I really wonder if that one eye closed thing might be another Aspie trait. Several years ago, when I was getting my hair cut, the stylist asked me if there was anything wrong. I didn't know what she meant. She said she just wondered if I had something in my eye, because I was squinting one of them. I hadn't even realized that I was doing it. Afterwards, I noticed that I did it a lot, and had to remind myself not to do it.

I am sensitive to bright light as well!

I know that I hate summer because it's ovewhelmingly hot (makes me feel sick sometimes) and way too bright. This sometimes leads to me closing my eyes while I walk. My eye feel so tired and it brings me great releif to close them at times. This can happen indoors as well, because I hate using lightbulbs during the day and prefer the light through the windows. I could have problems with fluorescent lighting because sometimes I close my eyes while walking through the halls in school, which are fluorescently lit all over.

My eyes are also more sensitive than those of most people I know. For a large portion of my life I've been able to walk around the house in the middle of the night with no lights on and be able to see where I'm going.

As for the one eye thing, I also do that in bright light, but always with my right eye, which is my bad eye. Squinting is also a common thing to do when you can't quite focus on something, so if you haven't already done so, I'd suggest making a visit to the optometrist, kiki3, PLA.

Me too, though there's plenty of light coming in from outside in my case.

Is hating the hot weather an aspie thing?

I guess it's to do with sensitivity to heat - so I would think a lot more Aspies would dislike hot weather than NTs.

Actually old people moan about the heat as well!! !!