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Originally Posted by GuinnessStout  It's funny how people are so different, I would be fine with all that going on as long as it was not nails on a chalkboard or somebody blowing their nose... BUT silence will drive my nuts and I would not get a single thing completed. |
My life was absolute chaos for a LONG time, then 7 years ago I was single, bought my own townhouse and lived alone for 5 years. It was quiet. I used to turn on the tv or radio for noise sometimes, I liked the background noise. Now I am married, have 2 step kids, a husband who is home when I am home and so much going on again in my life that I CRAVE quiet time. I can't get any. I often feel overstimulated with noise, too much talking, too loud of tv, the scanner at the desk in front of me going all day long, they all just overstimulate me. My job is hard enough seriously.... having all these distractions makes it 100x harder!
My mother was diagnosed with fibromyalsia when she was about 52 years old. It started with a buzzing in her head and pain in her feet. Its a neurological disease and they have no idea if it's hereditary. I literally get a buzzing in my head and the 'overstimated' phrase I use, is often something that happens to my mother, she gets overstimulated and then her head starts buzzing and she has to calm down in quiet for hours in order to be functional for 1/2 days. I don't want that for myself. I'm soooo seriously afraid right now for the buzzing that literally does happen in my head and how much the chaos around me effects me.