I began writing an article one lonely night last year (or maybe the year before) and has been sitting here pestering me ever since. I wanted to share something that enlightened me and in some respect makes me sad that this is not a fully recognised method of practice by opticians. Please note I added a couple of paragraphs to the end… hence why it had been sitting there for so long.

The article follows as below:

I’ve had this eye headache for the past 4 days and I have been thinking a lot about ASFEDIA (Arrhythmic Saccade & Foveation during Edge Detection Iterative Arrays) for some reason.
It was first introduced to me whilst I was studying art last year, when I was undergoing some dyslexia assessments and the like. I had a couple of examinations by TintaVision in which I found that my reading speed and text clarity was vastly improved by optimising the background to black text.

To best explain although not to be fully accurate; each and everyone sees black and white differently. Myself for example I find white too bright to read off of, and find that the whiteness absorbs the edges of the letters when putting black on white. I guess the best way to illustrate this would be to imagine reading text on a sheet of acetate with a halogen light behind it.

In essence; ASFEDIA, is an eye examination that takes into consideration that generic colours such as black and white aren’t constants that everyone sees the same; consequently adapting colours aids the process of strengthening your eyes. I found after 4 examinations (staggered over 2 years) my reading speed had accelerated exponentially, and the mild prescription I had for my eyes (that required glasses which was prescribed by my optician) was no longer needed as my eye muscles had overcome their inadequacies through colour manipulation.

I would recommend this examination to everyone. You do not need a learning difficulty to justify this examination, and if it concerns you to what other people think of you by reading with a coloured filter then I guess you’re just old fashioned.

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