I tend to have difficulty in places where multiple people are talking at once. I hear all voices all at the same time along with any other sounds like someone shuffling feet or clothing movement or whatever.
Basically Auditory overload.
Ive been trying to think how to desensitize myself to it. I typically will use ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones if its really bothering me.
Anyone else deal with that?
OH YES!!
Being in a crowded place triggers voices for me. My brain literally can’t process so many inputs, so then I just get confused. I start feeling that I am not real, the world is not real, and all the voices can crawl into my ears and suffocate me.
I cannot understand one person’s voice and differentiate only one voice of many.
In places like a busy grocery store, I will apologize and joke that I went to too many heavy metal concerts in my younger years and shot my hearing.
But in truth, I am not real, the world is not real, and I am absolutely terrified of all the floating words.
Yeah i get quite overstimulated by people talking. Especially if 1 person is trying to talk to me when thats going on, i cant hear them very well.
Every single day since I was ten. I keep fidget toys in my pockets to play with and that helps take my concentration off them. I recently purchased some fidget rings off Etsy for this, too.
Nice ill have to try that thanks. I have had this issue for many years as well
Well, it’s called stimming in the ASD community and it helps me.
When I was at my most psychotic I couldn’t filter anything, I was aware of everything, it was sensory overload.
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