earplugs, earmuffs, and noise reduction

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It does work well that way but I find it really tight and uncomfortable and it'll really hurt my ears if I do it for a long period of time.

I'm extremely sensitive too but mostly when I want to concentrate on my thoughts, work and ESPECIALLY whilst trying to sleep Which takes up 100% of my duties.

1)I'm sensitive to textures, materials. Only cotton sheets and I use powder all over my skin so as I'm not the least bit sticky.

2)I'm sensitive to smoke my room cannot smell like food, or any type of smoke or strong perfume or I will go APESH*T.

3)I'm sensitive to sound so I use headphones but they never seem good enough, because there is always noise where I live so my pillow is over my face always.

4)I'm also extremely sensitive to light, at the moment I've taken out my light bulb so as no 'intruder' can barge in and snap on the enemy. Blinding me in the process. also too much sunlight gives me the flu. Terrible headachey flu. And I live in the tropics. .......just bad.(Sad face)

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I live a very uncomfortable life.

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I can use instrumentals for stuff, but not music with words, because that will introduce another train of thought into my head, and I can only manage one at a time. If I have other words going into my head while I'm trying to write/type, then it doesn't work so well. And if two people are trying to talk to me at once.... boy oh boy, i just totally short-circuit and have to tell everyone to stop. lol like "AHHHHH! one at a time, one at a time! lol!"


Oy.


I also can't listen to music with words while trying to speak to or listen to someone else. I will just freeze and will literally not be able to say anything and will only be able to listen to the music that's playing. Then the music will be turned off and I'll continue trying to remember what I was going to say and then try to say it. Aaaaawkward!

You know what would be neat? If there was a way for earplugs to selectively tune stuff out. Like, directional mute. But alas. I'd probably use it mostly toward the obnoxious bird.

For me it is a reversed problem - I have high frequency hearing loss in both ears. I have no idea how long I've been partially deaf, but judging by my natural ability to lip-read it must have been there from a very young age. When my deafness was diagnosed a few years back they gave me digital hearing aids - and I hated it. It was probably the first time in my life I suffered from sensory overload due to noise

Within about 20 mins of leaving the hospital I ended up running into a shop to escape the horrible cacophony of noise that suddenly surrounded me. Whoever came up with the notion that birdsong is beautiful to listen to was obviously not autistic Lol. Everyone pestered me to keep at it, telling me that I would eventually get used to it, but I never did and eventually gave up on them after nearly a year of sonic torture.

I've since been diagnosed with Aspergers, so my extreme reaction to noise is now explainable, and is a cause of embarrassment to my wife who was one of the main antagonists over my not wanting to wear my hearing aids.

Even with my partial deafness I still find a lot of noise distracting and unpleasant. I hate being on a bus with everyone talking around me, I hate the sound of traffic and I hate having the TV on in the background. I often wear headphones on the bus to drown out all the noise around me, and sometimes at home if I want to relax I listen to ambient music through my headphones. I tend to avoid music with lyrics even when relaxing, I find trying to figure out what the singer is saying too stressful for me. Listening to a song with lyrics while trying to hold a conversation would be a nightmare!