Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome (also known as Irlen-Meares Syndrome or Visual Stress)

also called Irlen-Meares Syndrome or Visual Stress

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Sight2000

Sight2000 is a JavaScript program which I developed so that anyone can appreciate the way I see. Click on pictures below to experience the chaos of my vision with little spots like snow appearing across everything that I see.

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	Text on a page Imagine learning to read through this messiness!
	The countryside I can see the beauty through the chaos but sometimes the chaos is overwhelming especially on very bright sunny days.
	Sunsets The sky can contain particularly violent distortions
	Solar Eclipse 1999 My vision is always this chaotic even in the dark. I have never seen total darkness.

More information
on Scotopic Sensitivity

A definition

What can help?

More distortions...

	Everything I see is distorted by varying amounts
	Stripy or spotty patterns move around violently
	My vision is worse when my eyes are tired
	Going to new places is disorientating & tiring
	In 'My World is not Your World' I describe how these sight distortions affected my life and how hard it was coping when nobody knew that anything was wrong with my vision. Bad? Mad? Slow? Strange?

...written for all the children and adults suffering
from and working with those who
suffer from similar problems...

Contact: Alison Hale hale@ndo.co.uk