Everything annoys me, advise please.

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Hey, collective knowledge.

I am very sensitive to everything others do, so the slightest light, noise or smell hurts me due to the sensitivities. The problem is that I usually live at night or spend all day in my room just so I could avoid the people who create these annoyances, but yesterday my sister told me that my mom is sad because she doesn't see me more often and that really touched me.

My mom is the person I love most so I really can't live knowing that she's sad because of me.

I want to satisfy her and live with my other relatives but that's really painful for me, as you all probably understand.

I can't choose between hurting myself in order to please my mom or the opposite of that, it's heartbreaking.

The house is constantly occupied by 8 individuals and I can only tollerate 2 of those at any given them, and they're the quiet ones.

Any advise on what I should do?

Thank you in advance.

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Not sure where to start... How about you talk to your mom about doing some one-on-one activity together? Like maybe in your room, have chats or play games or whatever; "quality time dates" of some sort. Is your mom understanding of your sensitivities? Just to clarify, from what you were told, is the source of her sadness about this that you're not involved enough with your siblings, or that she just doesn't see you enough?