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my experience is i get

• common migraines two to four times a year ("common migraine" is a neurological term)
• i get tension headaches that feature light sensitivity and, if they are particularly bad, sound sensitivity, several times a week (this is a "mixed-tension-migraine"). it has very little to do with my Common migraines (despite ironically being far more common, lowercase c)
• i also just Am Autistic and im sensitive to light in general so i Always need things to be dark (and not just dark but specifically low-contrast dark). it's an accessibility need i cant do without and thats why i have darkreader (so i can make it low contrast because most "dark themes" are hight contrast near-white text on a near-black background and this activates my light sensitivities just as bad as a light theme) (contrast is so important that for instance, if i'm watching a minute physics video or something else with a #fffff background, i have to switch darkreader to a separate mode that renders the video itself and also the page in a kind of grayer color w/ black text. this is, ironically, more of a light mode than a dark mode and yet it is far less painful for me because of the factor of there being few high contrast dark-bright areas. everything is equally gray. also i can play shadows over loathing fine if i just turn the contrast down in the settings so its similarly kinda gray)
• both migraine/headache types make bright websites, bright images on otherwise dark websites, and "dark" websites of near-white on near-black particularly painful, but cuz of the autism those things are already baseline painful or at least uncomfortable/disorienting/hard to read to begin with, without a headache