Struggling to focus today again. Feeling kind of fuzzy. Struggling with social interaction too. This doesn't happen often, but today I keep averting my eyes and have to force myself to actually look at people. Don't want to be rude. Don't particularly want to speak to anyone though. Didn't want to leave home either.
I get like this once in a while. Worst was a few weeks ago. I was in a health shop and everything was fuzzy and overexposed and I was just floating around. Couple of shop attendants asked me if I needed assistance. I couldn't make eye contact and mumbled something to the effect of "no thank you". Just wanted to be left alone. I was finding some of what I needed and meandering around looking for the rest. I must have looked lost. I think I was in there a long time. Lucky its a big shop. Cashier actually asked me to speak louder when I replied to something she asked. Must have looked very strange.
Its strange because normally I have no problem with any of this. Some days are just weird and I should probably just stay home with a book. Wish I could.
Vision seems kind of overexposed again today. Not too bad, just a bit uncomfortable. I'm sensitive to light I guess. We had this issue in the office where the lights would randomly start to flicker because something was on the fritz. No one else would notice until I said something. And I was the only one in bothered.

Interesting. I share those things. In my (almost) dotage I've become much more social, but still on occasion I have a sudden, marked aversion to eye contact when speaking. For no reason whatsoever. I just don't want to look at the other person. Also, sometimes things appear overexposed, or as if the light level has suddenly increased, when in fact there's been no change in lighting or sunshine. Also sometimes I'm extremely sensitive to glare. To the point of it causing pain.

I once THOUGHT... since I have bad eyes and once often wore contacts (I usually wear glasses these days but still sometimes wear contacts) that one of those factors caused the sensitivity to glare, but I'm rethinking that. I've taken a self screening test for Aspergers, and fell just below the score needed for it to say it was a possibility- I mean, just under. I definitely have some traits but apparently not debilitating enough to be a pathology. Anyway, photophobia can be evident in ppl on the autism spectrum. You sound a lot like me, here, and apparently I'm almost, but not quite, weird enough to be on that spectrum, so.... meh, it's a thought. Sudden aversion to eye contact, mumbling, sensitivity to light... could these be some sort of Aspie moment for ppl like us?

As a side note, besides photophobia, do you ever experience the photic sneeze reflex? Having to sneeze when suddenly exposed to bright light. It's much less common in me now as it was when I was younger, but walking into bright sunlight still on occasion will make me sneeze.

No, I've heard of it before but sudden exposure to light doesn't make me sneeze.

With me the aversion to eye contact is rather unusual. I normally maintain eye contact to the point that sometimes other people feel the need to look away. Not intentionally but anyway.

The sensitivity to light is more consistent, but there are times when its more severe.

I dont really know much about Aspergers but I'll have a look out for the self screeing test.

I'll see if I can find the link.

http://aspergerstest.net/aq-test/ is pretty much the same as the other tests I've found. I scored 27, which is borderline Asperger or other autism spectrum disorder.

I scored 21. So I'm a fairly average...

Good....

I get tired of always being in the middle. Almost this, almost that..