First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.
Tinnitus gang where you at.
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I find it disturbing that people can't seem to be in a room without a TV on, even if they're scrolling on facebook. People probably think I avoid them when I'm really just avoiding TV.
Its infuriating to be visiting some family member, having a conversation with simeone, and have to talk over the noise of a TV that they have almost always on. I usually take the remote and at least lower the volume. But eventually someone comes into the room and goes "why is the tv so low?" and raises it again... Why?? We're having a conversation, youre not even watching this shit... So frustrating
TVs make people feel less alone, its a coping mechanism.
Seems people are being replaced by cats and TV. I cant help but wonder if people were better off without them if it made people more likely to improve their social skills.
Crickets are okay, but only when I feel like they’re okay.
Everyone around me finds crickets to be super soothing but all I hear is a very loud, high pitched ringing noise. 💀💀
I used to get really annoyed by noises that were out of my control, but after years of meditation practice, I learned to accept them (among other things) and am a much happier person. Just remember that these parts of you aren't fixed and can change if you want them to, or sometimes totally unintentionally.
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I have had a fan running nearly constantly since middle school I am now 25. I fear the amount of cat hair glued to the blades, it's one of those tower ones with the conical blades. I will not open it to clean the blades for fear that it'll die.
Feels real is real!
I alternate back and forth all day long.
I feel like if we continue down this particular meme street, at the end of the road everyone will be considered neurodivergent.
If everyone is neurodivergent then everyone is neurotypical.
This, tbh.
I think neurodiversity vs neurotypical is the wrong way of looking at things anyways. I think neurodiversity is a term that describes how diverse the different neurotypes are. Just as with other types of diversity, you can't say there's only one type that's normal and the rest abnormal.
So we're all just on the spectrum? 😉
"The spectrum" usually means ASD, but neurodiversity is much much larger and encompasses other neurotypes as well.
I know, twas joke
We did it reddit!
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What if the background noise is in fact a series of overlapping, never-ending streams of thoughts in your own head?
I put on podcasts so my own thoughts shut up for a minute
It’s one of the reasons I’m listening to music so often, and even that doesn’t help sometimes. It affects my sleep too :(
Kind of depends and changes depending on a lot of factors, to be honest.
When I worked in an office, I discovered that headphones + music was the key to productivity for me. When I transitioned to work at home and had a more or less quiet home office to work in, I found that having music going was a bit irritating at times and totally not helpful at the best.
So I guess the deciding factor is whether I have to deal with the ridiculous noises other people make or not?
I don't know why, but someone speaking in the background in a language I don't speak drives me insane. It doesn't have to be loud, I don't have to be trying to concentrate on anything especially hard, but if it doesn't stop after a couple of minutes, I basically just have to go somewhere else.
No idea why. I don't think it is any subtle racism, because it's every language. It's like my brain won't let go of trying to understand, and keeps wanting to notify me that it's having trouble and needs my help with it.
I've heard that we hate having to hear people talking on the phone because of how jarring it is to only hear half a conversation. It sounds like you're experiencing something similar where you can't quite make out what's happening, and that keeps pulling it into the foreground of your attention.
You'd go apeshit in my house. My wife is constantly talking to her friends and family, or listening to the news, in Tagalog (Filipino).
Only thing that bothers me is that she can't teach me, and she's an educated teacher! I rock at languages, but she's so critical I can't get started.
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I get the weirdly opposite wherein my brain starts to try to translate it through whatever lexicon I may have, Korean for example don't know a bit but any Romance language or Germanic language getting rammed through the lexiconic equivalent of Frankensteins monster as presented by HR Giger. I try to avoid Spanish, I can understand spoken Frisian.
That would make sense, your brain definitely is trying to make sense of it because syllables, sentences, vocal emotion, etc are all there, so there are certainly patterns that can be picked up on, but none of it matches the existing language centers you have.
As to why you might get more frustrated than others about it, who knows, brains are weird and I’m not a neuroscientist
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I had a coworker who considered anything below 160BPM not as music. My flair of music is more like Jean-Michel Jarre's Waiting for Custeau. And the apprentice thought that there was a reason for rap to exist.
What do you mean by that last sentence?
"Background noise" is not a concise enough category to give a consistent answer for either scenario. Different white noises stroke the CNS differently depending on current state of arousal, time of day, body temperature, and more. If I'm irritated, clicking noises make me crave death. If I'm anxious and meditate to solve it, clicking noises can help.
Like drugs, there's a time and place for all but 1 or 2 of them. The ceiling fan click is never a good sound.
I prefer the sound of silence.
I don’t mean the song but I’m also fine with the song (it gives me Frission every time I hear it, so it gets a pass.)
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Are those traits neurodivergent or do they just fall into the "people are different" category?
- A fan in the background, cool
- TV in the background, cool
- Children playing in the background, cool
- Music in the background, cool
- a dripping water faucet in the background, drives me utterly insane
- Music on repeat, drives me insane
I am wagnetic.
I can't have anything going on in the background with speaking/singing, otherwise I'll post too much attention to it.
Music in headphones: good A show I picked by am not really watching: good A conversation I am not part of: I WILL MURDER YOU ALL WITH A SAFETY PIN
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I'm with "yes". I hate background sound I can't control or prepare for a lot of the time. Anything with words fully ruins my hearing and concentration, particularly if it's right in that range where I can kinda, but not really, hear it.
For high-concentration tasks, it's noise-canceling headphones with music I've heard so many times before there is nothing that could possibly get my brain interested and I can hit flow state on a task.
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