Welcome My Irlen is severe also, I have many of the same issues except no
halos around the words.

But with out my glasses i am night blind, my children are not night blind at
all they see way better in the dark than in the day time. My oldest is in
grade 10 my youngest is in grade 6





On 5/5/08, frenchhornplayer19 <frenchhornplayer19@...> wrote:
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> I am a college student majoring in music and art. I play piano,
> paint in watercolor, and am also a ceramist. I love Baroque,and
> Classical music, and opera.
> I have Irlen syndrome; my diagnostician says that it is severe. I
> also have Asperger syndrome and epilepsy.
> Fluorescent lights are the most irritating to me. I get headaches,
> my eyes throb, and I feel very sleepy. The print on a page can look
> very strange. All the words have halos around them. Some of the words
> appear to be very light and gray. Other words are very dark. The words
> that are dark appear to float above the page with the lighter words
> below them. I get lost easily and read in a stop and go sort of way. I
> cannot recognize words beyond the one I am reading at any certain
> point. It is difficult for me to retain information under these
> circumstances. I think that my Irlen syndrome contributes to my
> seizures.
> I have to go now.
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