Visual Snow

WHAT ITS LIKE (symptoms)

video: me bumping into 20 counters in the dark (i dont have that many counters?)

Visual snow is kinda like having TV static in your vision 24/7!! Not coolsies but gah. It also means that if you look at a light for just a little tooo long you get the Evil Inverted™️, here is diagram for reference of the Evil Inverted™️

ITS THAT.
AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT IN UR EYEBALLS FOR LIKE (atleast for me) UP TO HALF AN HOUR ‼️‼️ THEYRE LIKE APARTMENT RENTERS THAT JUST DONT LEAVE!!?

i also managed to find an awesome diagram of what it (the static) actually looks like:

i think you have to click it buT ITS BASICALLY THAT. itt also gets like 20x worse at night? idk its like batman if he had social anxiety i guess, also shapes are like IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE, i will provide you with a gorgeous diagram of it <3

no joke thats how i seee, and yes there is something there if you can't see it maybe turn up the brightness :3 HERES A BETTER DIAGRAM!!

Left is normal and right is nyctalopia*

itt also meaans i get HORRIBLE migraines when im in bright sunlight/light (in general) for like more than an hour and they can last up to 3 days (true story i had a 2-day migraine one time genuinely sucked 😡‼️)

it weirdly doesn't class as like, blindness though i dont think? its so weird like IT AFFECTS MY VISION I THINK THATS A BLINDNESS?

anyways it might be better if i get the wiki list of symptoms gimme a hot minute

Static and auras in vision (i have so much aura ik.. idrk what auras r tho icl)**
Palinopsia (fancy word for Evil Inverted™️)
Blue field entoptic phenomenon (neon worms i get whenever i look at the sky)
Nyctalopia (basically being blind as a bat at night)*
Tinnitus (EEEEEEEEEEEEE 😹)

REFERENCE OF SKY WORMS

i dont mind them but they also come with their invisible worm brothers and invisible circle cousins (aka eye floaters)

ALSO THE PALINOPSIA COMES WITH 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND' SYNDROME

^^ if you dunno what this is its basically where ur brain perceives objects as smaller or larger than they really are, for me that object is myself or my head so that is not very fun and it tends to happen at night, it kinda feels like im spinning? idk :P

there's not a lot else to say about the symptoms so im gonna yap about the STRUGGLES 😕💔 #brocken

-means hallways at night are 10x scarier (cant see naff all so for all i know there could be someone at the end of it and i wouldnt notice!!!)
-headaches and migraines are so like normal to me atp that i find it fun to see if i break my record for long migraine (its BAD.. 2 days is my record rn)
-tinnitus, i dont even need to explain that one its just annoying AND I CAN FEEL THE TINNITUS TOO. ITS NOT JUST eeeeee!!! IF IM SUPER QUIET THEN I CAN FEEL THE TINNITUS IN MY SPINE AND ITS SO GAHHDHWHFHWHDH eugh!!
-i used to think the visual snowwas oxygen so i was convinced i was the next jimmy neutron or something /gen (i was 9 at this point of my life)
-palinopsia literally makes it impossible to see and depending on where the after-image is in my vision THAT CAN BE PRETTY BAD!!! :3 (if its like dead middle then im screwed for like 10ish minutes till it wears off :P)
-its super understudied so (1) not much is known about it, which means (2) basically not a lot i can do about it except a medication that *MIGHT* work? so woops!
-> its also very rare to have so you feel like super alienated from everyone else because you either think (1) everyone else sees it or (2) you're weird and should never speak of your TV(girl) eyeballs
-it tends to show up pretty early in life, i don't remember a time where i didnt have VS but i know there was a time, i think from about 4-5 is where i developed it :3
-MY FEET HURT FROM WALKING INTO STUFF AT NIGHT 😕‼️
-nobody takes u seriusly when u say 'i see static ‼️'

ok thanks for listening to part one of my yap session, theres like one or two more parts comin out :3

a/n: been two mins since i posted and wanted to add: if this seems dramatic im telling you now i just whacked my hand into my dresser which i know the exact location of and it hasn't been moved for 3 years
(its dark) okay gn ill read this tomorrow idk :D

a/n2: was i borken yesterday? i weote this at like 1.20am. oops 😹