Chloropleth map of constituencies: how to evade visual deception

Hi everybody! I am doing a map of proposed multi-member-constituencies for the German federal parliament. Nr. 1 to 43 denote the constituencies and the greyscales the mean district size (magnitude). Constituency Nr. 1 and Nr. 11 have the some colour, but Nr. 1 looks way more darker, since the neighboring constituencies of Nr. 1 have a lighter grayscale than the neighboring constituency of Nr. 11. So in fact, a classicial example of visual deception. But what can I do about it? Or do I have

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