nintendofan
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 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject: do you wear ear defenders? |
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just wondering if its a normal autism thing.
i wear ear defenders all the time because of noise.
i wear silencio ear muff (do you have any idea where i can get better versions of this style? because they arnt quite what i am looking for ) , and howard leight l1 ear defenders, i also own howard leight l2 ear defenders but wear them less than the other ones.
my ear defenders are my picture.
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my picture is my ear defenders that i wear all the time. pictured is silencio earmuff, l1 howard leight, i also own 12 howard leight (not pictured) . |
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Wandering_Stranger
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| It has been suggested that I wear them. I currently wear earplugs. Someone on here told me they can cause problems after a while. |
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YellowBanana
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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No, I don't. I often wear earphones/headphones to play my own music and drown out other sound (it's better because I have control of the sound in my earphones), and sometimes use earplugs when I don't want to be listening to music.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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I have earplugs that I take everywhere if I need them. I am thinking of getting a cheaper Ipod (now that the price has gone down for several versions) so that I can have a bit of music. The earplugs keep out sound but not completely, but if I have my computer and my earphones with music, that can really help calm me down.
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Barefoot_Boy
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I also do the earplug thing. There's one restaurant my parents like to eat at. It's very noisy there with their music, so I put in earplugs or stuff my ears with pieces of the napkins.
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TheHouseholdCat
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| YellowBanana wrote: | | No, I don't. I often wear earphones/headphones to play my own music and drown out other sound (it's better because I have control of the sound in my earphones), and sometimes use earplugs when I don't want to be listening to music. |
I have done that for... nearly 10 years now.
It works well.
I have never used earplugs. (Is that a weird thing?) I bet it would really good for my hearing. ^^
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Callista
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Earphones. With or without music coming through them.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I use earplugs. They sometimes itch, but that's why I don't always wear them. I need something small enough to carry in my kindle's bag, ear defenders tend to be too large. |
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nintendofan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Barefoot_Boy wrote: | | I also do the earplug thing. There's one restaurant my parents like to eat at. It's very noisy there with their music, so I put in earplugs or stuff my ears with pieces of the napkins. |
i dont use earplugs often somtimes i use them with ear defenders , but i mostly dont like how they feel in my ears
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moderate low functining autistic (i was diagnosed with autism, not aspeger syndrome).
my picture is my ear defenders that i wear all the time. pictured is silencio earmuff, l1 howard leight, i also own 12 howard leight (not pictured) . |
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nintendofan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Wandering_Stranger wrote: | | It has been suggested that I wear them. I currently wear earplugs. Someone on here told me they can cause problems after a while. |
its fine if you keep the ear defenders/earplugs clean and ears clean.
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moderate low functining autistic (i was diagnosed with autism, not aspeger syndrome).
my picture is my ear defenders that i wear all the time. pictured is silencio earmuff, l1 howard leight, i also own 12 howard leight (not pictured) . |
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Kinme
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| I only wear headphones. The noise-cancelling kind. They are kind of annoying at times, though. |
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No, but I find it best to just avoid the noises that bother me, which is to say avoid people as much as possible.
If I have to go out and be around people, I'll just listen to a MP3 player; that seems to work.
(It's...bliss walking through a shopping center when there's absolutely no one there.) |
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gotwake
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I wear the wax earplugs. My ears are really small, though, so I tear them in half. I;m starting to think, though, that if I try to slowly introduce myself to those environments, it might be make it better?
Anyway, I've tried the airplane things and I think the wax is much better. Just be careful that you don't get stressed really quickly and want to jam them tighter into your ears. I wish I could just control my volume like on my computer... |
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izzeme
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:55 am Post subject: |
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i got earplugs with me at all times too, but to prevent getting dependant on them, i only wear hem when it's absolutely needed, if i were to wear them al the time, i would get used to the lowered volume, and the plugs lose their effect...
i do however listen to music almost all the time when i'm not sleeping, i cant stand what NT's call 'silence', as fridges, clocks, central heating, lighting... all make a lot of noise, whihc is easily overtuned by even the slightest music... |
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infinitenull
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: |
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I had a pair as a kid that were from my father's shop... at the time I thought of them as a toy and didn't quite understand why it was so comfortable drowning out sounds. I wore them all the time when playing by myself. Years later after finding this place and undoing some of my mental perceptions that I've given myself in my attempts to become tougher as I grew up, I tried out wearing headphones or ear plugs (and sunglasses too actually) while at the grocery store and now for the first time since I was a kid I am able to go to a store, do an hour and a half worth of shopping, and as long as I don't get caught in a traffic jam where too many people are dependent on me to move without moving themselves then I can walk out with a smile, still feeling calm... if anything I end up walking out happy and feeling accomplished for not freaking out!
so ear defenders: not really any more... but sound reduction of other methods: I am with the rest of the thread and swear by it.
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