NO MORE NOISE!

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I have never liked noise, but over the past year or so it has gotten worse. I hear always heard sounds that most other people can't and the sounds that they do hear, I seem to hear at a much louder volume. That (apparently) little creak when someone walks across the floor? I hear an elephant stomping. Pretty much everything is noise to me- people's conversations at any volume louder than a whisper, gum cracking, walking loudly, the TV (I usually watch on mute with subtitles) and ESPECIALLY humming, whistling and people who listen to their MP3 players so loudly that you can still hear it despite the fact that they are wearing earphones. That last item (the loud music blaring out of earphones) incenses me to the point that I have to struggle to control myself when I'm in that situation, which is unfortunately often because I have to take the train a lot for work and the train seems to be full of people blaring their MP3 players. It has been suggested to me that I listen to music but I don't want music, I want SILENCE! I have taken to wearing ear plugs almost constantly because I just want it quiet but this is clearly not a long-term solution because it's annoying to have to take them out every single time someone wants to talk to me. What can I do? This is driving me crazy and making miserable, constantly on edge, cranky and irritable.

Have custom earplugs made.

I hear you radioflyer57, it's hell. Everyday, all day and it gets worse and worse.

being that my ears incessantly ring like a room full of assorted bells and chimes, i have never experienced dead silence.

what I wouldn't give for absolute silence....

i suspect that if i were to obtain absolute silence, it would feel like i'd gone deaf, or feel like i was in some kind of vacuum chamber.

Probably true. I supposed "peace and quiet" sums up what I'm looking for a bit better. That said, the world is a loud place!