doyouknowhowmany

Interestingly enough, most peoples' eyes develope a minor nystagmus during a drunken state. It's one of the things police look for, which makes getting pulled over at 2:00pm on a Tuesday kind of awkward for those of us with nystagmus as a default state.

That said, if you can say nystagmus, and better yet spell it, they usually know you're not drunk.

No. If you're looking in a mirror, you're looking through your eyes. If they move away suddenly, you're no longer looking at yourself, which makes it impossible to really see the amplitude of the shift. In order to see it, you have to have an objective reference point - film, if you want to see your own.

I've also found that computer screens tire me out more than they do other people. I'm about to start looking into filters I can use for my glasses, or even prescription computer glasses, to see if I can cut the light wavelength and make it less troublesome.

On the note of LEDs, I've found that signs, especially scrolling ones, are particularly bad. Cars with LED backlights suck. As more and more cars move to different types of headlamps, too, I've noticed that I'm a lot more sensitive to light quality than most of the people I know. For example, around Christmas I was able to point out strands of lights that didn't match the others, or bulbs that were getting ready to burn out. It just seems like those types of differences stick out more when they seem to be moving all of the time.

I believe the last figure I read was that about 51% of the population had light-sensitive sneezing, so that's fairly common.

I also have really terrible eyes -7.5 and -8.25 prescription. Never tried wearing contacts due to the Nystagmus. Do you wear contacts? How does it work with your Nystagmus?

That's about my prescription. I wear contacts, but the comfort is going to depend on the severity of the nystagmus. In the last year or so, I've all but stopped wearing them because the nystagmus seems to be getting worse, but up until age 24 I could wear soft lenses with absolutely no problems at all.