First of all, rude.
Second of all, how dare you.
Crickets are okay, but only when I feel like they’re okay.
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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 alternate back and forth all day long.
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.
Yeah, a lot of times becoming teacher/student with someone you already have a different standing with just doesn't work out all that well. If it works then great, but if it doesn't then t's better to just have a different person teach you honestly.
Once I tried to teach my GF at the time something, started talking to her like one of my students, and she absolutely hated the process and rejected it completely. And lo, after talking with some other people because initially I couldn't even tell what happened, I was enlightened.
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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
Alternating languages kind of makes me insane. I have to try even harder to understand it, and often it can even take me a minute to figure out what the language is, even if it is my native language.
Minute isn't exaggeration. Many times I've been listening to some "foreign language" for a while until it finally clicked, "Oh, that's Slovak, my native language."
If this is in movies I just prefer single-language subtitles.
I would describe it as my brain having to switch languages on-demand rather than just catching on.
But for background this is fine. Today the Hungarian I was hearing from ceiling speakers at work didn't bother me, just background noise, only when it didn't make sense it clicked that it's Slovak, again. Quite different even. But when I unfocused it sounded like the same speech junk.
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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.
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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I am wagnetic.
"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 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.
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Tinnitus gang where you at.
Mynoise.net is great.
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 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?
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
Dang you must be a good surgeon, I would think it would take mad skills to kill with a safety pin.
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'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.
Are those traits neurodivergent or do they just fall into the "people are different" category?
Yes.
- 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
sometimes when I feel really agitated I remember to try turning off the music/podcast and go "ooooh so that was it" even though 2 hours ago I absolutely needed that music/podcast to not lose the entirety of my shit
Mostly 2. I tend to keep my heaphones on with nothing playing on them just to muffle some sounds. Unfortunately it somehow enhances some frequencies. I think it blocks low frequency sound, but that makes higher frequency sound stand out more or smth. It's weird ngl.
Mostly the former, but occasionally the latter if I can’t control the latter noise.
I like music. In silence there is almost always something else, far more distracting. A faint conversation my brain wants to listen to, music, just background noise.
I also tried noise generators at some point, but that was weird. White noise is annoying as fuck. Brown noise was better, but it made me sweat a lot when I kept it on, and just added some stress.
The second one but my wife is the first one…
Hey, that's me! When I go to the water park, I accept their music, when I go camping, I wanna take an axe to the RV of anyone with a speaker outside. I have one but I keep it low enough that I have to be within 10 ft to even hear it, 5 ft to understand it.
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