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The joy of explaining your sneezes every time you see a bright light during cold/flu/pandemic season.

I'm surprised to see it affects 20+% of the population because I've never met anyone who knew what I was talking about when I said "sorry, light makes me sneeze"

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For me, since childhood, it was a common fact that if one were almost going to sneeze but couldn't, they should quickly look at a bright source of light to succeed.

Lights don't trigger a full sneeze if I don't need to but it always helped.

Me too!

Ha! I have it too. Doesn't feel like 20% but we're out here

Bless you, too!

I love staring 45° from sunshine and knowing that I'll get that sneezing sensation.

¡Then do, a-chew!

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