rjalker:

skarosdrones:

rjalker:

Me trying to explain to someone that doesn’t have Visual Snow about the static that covers everything I see.

Here’s a gif to demonstrate.

Imagine that, overlayed over your entire field of vision. Even when your eyes are closed. (especially when your eyes are closed.)

*looks up from computer* now wait just one minute

This is a real thing that exists, not intrusive thought. This is the reason I have glasses. I was a little kid, thought it was normal, tried to point them out to my mom, and she freaked out and brought me to an eye doctor. Where we found out I have shit eyesight. And also apparently where she learned what visual snow was.

But. She deicded. Not. To tell me.

(Like she’s also decided not to tell me or my twin that we’re autistic)

So it literally took me more than a decade to find a word for this.

Which is why I made this post.

She mentioned casually last year to her boyfriend that she learned I had visual snow when I was little and I’m jyst sitting there, having already painstakingly figured all of this out on my own like, “and you didn’t think that was worth explaining to me even when I brought it to your atfention?????”

So ueah.

It’s a thing. If you see staticy moving dots everywhere even with your eyes closed, you’ve got Visual Snow.