Recently, I got fed up with being in pain every time I left my house. (Well, I was already fed up, but I finally decided to do something about it.)
My hearing is my worst sensory issue. Everything comes in at a high volume. This hurts. This hurts quite a lot if I spend any time in places with even a few people.
So, I decided to buy myself a pair of those foam earplugs that you put in your ears and they expand. (They look like the little ones in the picture.)
And they are fantastic! The first time I wore them, it was on a bus to work. For once, I arrived at work without my head hurting, without my ears hurting, without every muscle in my body aching, without feeling sick without feeling lethargic because of beginning to shut down, and with a clear head.
Another effect is that, at the age of 25 years and almost 3 months, I now understand the concept of background noise on a level other than the purely conceptual. Without the earplugs, everything is competing for foreground. Everything enters my attention. With the earplugs, sounds now recede into the background.
This improves my speech processing, as I don't have a gazillion other sounds competing for my brain's attention.
The only problem with the earphones is that they feel uncomfortable in my ears, but this is a small price to pay for so much pain reduction. I am so getting a pair of noise-cancelling headphones as soon as I can afford them.
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I am Asperger's autistic. I am also deaf, though I use a cochlear implant. That noted, I am also very sensitive to sounds. I am so glad that I can control when I do--and do not--want to hear. Believe it or not, I even wear noise canceling headphones when I am working because it distracts me to hear loud sounds when I need to concentrate.
I buy them in catering carton size as they're dead cheap anyway and the relief......well worth every squidgy bit. I tried the noise canceling headphones on the boys but the 'bit' that goes over the top of your head drove them barmy. They do work in the winter though as then you can wear a little fleece cap to stop the bar crushing your hair follicles.
Cheers
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