Have a problem understanding when there is background noise?

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sounds like over stimulation to me. it depends really im trying to think of the last meaningful conversation i had intown with a fellow. hm,. oh ok some dude was asking me how to get to the grand canyon from here. i just told him that i didnt know even though i do and to buy a map. i was becoming increasingly overstimulated because a BNSF train was honking that gawd awful horn they have on there, i didnt catch what he said and he just drove off. and i continued about my day

I can absolutely not concentrate at work if people are playing music. It wasn't a problem with my current job until a new guy started....talking isn't an issue, but music? It makes me insane.

That's a huge reason I bought a house...I couldn't stand listening to people's music and noise through apartment walls.

Yes, I have this problem as well. It's one reason why if I am out in, say, a pub or a nightclub in a group of people, I just don't talk at all.

What is even worse is that once someone has figured out I can't hear what they are saying, then they put their mouth right up to my ear and SHOUT! This is physically painful for me and I hate it! But they don't seem to have a clue.

And as I have posted elsewhere, I can't concentrate on reading if people are talking around me.

I struggle with hearing people over unstructured sounds. Things like music, I can mostly deal with, I think because I am a musician - you have to listen and process what you have to do yourself, so I can separate out certain kinds of sounds. Something like running water or static, however, and I find it very difficult to hear someone else over it.

I get this all the time. I get mad at my mom because she likes to listen to music while aI'm trying to read. I have major problems with this auditory processing stuff.

All the time.