By Auryn Cox BBC Scotland News Image source, Paris Haigh Image caption, The dots do not stop Paris from valuing nature and she hopes to discover work in wildlife preservation For as long as Paris Haigh can keepinmind she’s seen small flickering dots in her vision. The dots appearance like TELEVISION fixed, and they’re a continuous existence in her life. The 19-year-old can see them when she goes shopping. They’re with her when she researchstudies at college. She can even see the dots when she closes her eyes. Paris, from East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, presumed for lotsof years that everybody else might see them too. When she found this wasn’t the case, she put it down to her autism and sensory processing condition – a condition which triggers her senses to be particularly delicate. She then went from thinking that everybody might see the dots to questioning if she was the just one in the world who could. But then Paris heard about “visual snow” – a obscure neurological condition which triggers visual and non-visual signs. ‘Big layer’ of fixed One researchstudy hasactually approximated the condition might impact up to 3% of the UK population, however it’s not clear precisely how lotsof individuals have it. The primary sign of visual snow is constant small dots in the client’s vision, which vary in colour and intensity from individual to individual. “It’s like a huge layer of TELEVISION fixed which covers my entire whole vision, 24/7 non-stop,” Paris stated. “I can even see it when I close my eyes.” Other individuals haveactually explained it as having a sort of pixelated vision. Paris states she is able to filter out the dots for much of the time, however some days are moredifficult than others. “There are some days where it’s in my face all the time. It can be rather sidetracking,” she stated. What does visual snow appearance like? Image source, Getty Images Image caption, This picture of Glasgow hasactually been changed to show how Paris’s vision is impacted by the visual snow condition Image source, Zytomania Image caption, Digital artist Zytomania developed this image to program what his own visual snow is like Certain things can cause the flashing dots to endedupbeing more obvious. For Paris, it is tiredness, stressandanxiety, headaches or whenever she is in really intense or dark settings. Using cosmetic items can likewise cause issues. “I puton’t actually wear cosmetics, however when I wear eye shadow it stings my eyes and for days aft
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