If you had xeroderma pigmentosum or cutaneous porphyrias, would you go nocturnal?

These are disorders that cause skin to burn in sunlight.
I was thinking it must be pretty awful but you could live at night.
It's almost romantic, not to trivialize the plight of those with these disorders.

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exchrist · 36-40

If I never had to be exposed to sunlight I’d be fine I’d just sleep all day and work a night job. Unfortunately I’m 35 and it is late in the game for me to be suddenly not able to get sunlight. I do burn easily (get sunburn). Was this condition common during early Christianity? People feared vampires. Maybe it was simply discrimination? Based on ignorance.