why are NT's so much less sensitive to noise?

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Not in my experience. I hear things that people around me absolutely cannot hear even if I get rid of the other sounds in the room and put them right next to whatever's making the sound (like the high pitched squeal that comes out of older TV sets).

NT's have a sound filter. Actually they have a sensory filter. Their brain can determine what is most important to pay attention to and lower the volume on the rest.
In most neurological disorders we can't do this.

To make matters worse NT's have a very short sensory memory, meaning that if they do get irritated by something it doesn't last as long. And don't forget they have emotional regulation that is better than ours.

I think I'm getting through to people about my sound sensitivities. I hear the neighbors phone ring and often confuse it as my own. I usualy bring that point up.
I even have a delayed scent memory where I'll smell things hours after they actually happened. This just proves that my senses are so completely screwed up which often results in extreme sensitivity to sound, light and touch.

yeah, i've always worried they'd think i was nuts with that sort of stuff.

NT's have a sound filter. Actually they have a sensory filter. Their brain can determine what is most important to pay attention to and lower the volume on the rest.
In most neurological disorders we can't do this.

I even have a delayed scent memory where I'll smell things hours after they actually happened. This just proves that my senses are so completely screwed up which often results in extreme sensitivity to sound, light and touch.

This is true. When I'm sitting in a room with a dog that's liable to suddenly bark loudly, I jump six feet in the air. Some NTs might, some NTs might not (depends how used to dogs they are). But then they soon forget about it, whereas I'd be sitting there shaking from the shock of the sudden noise, and putting my fingers in my ears in case the dog barks again.
It seems that I'm always ready for loud noises. It takes over my life.


I don't hear noises what others can't. If I can hear a distant noise, there's usually someone else who can too.

But often when I'm in the street, people are always look round at noises. Often when I'm waiting in the bus station and there are loud buses hissing and engines revving and other noises, people look round at them as though they never heard a bus before.

I know NT's that will hear some noises that other NT's can't, though.

Idk, my NT mom says that my singing bugs her sometimes....but she only says that when I get annoyed at someone elses singing.

Noise can be distracting for anyone, though. That is why they shut away students who do exams, and tell all the rest of the kids to be quiet and to not hang around anywhere near the exam halls.

i think they in general just sense less then us.. don't really know.