It’s driving me crazy. Partner on phone, playing videos and games while the TV is running some YouTube reaction stuff.
I wear noise cancelling headphones all day at home because it’s just too much. The volume is so high I can hear it through a closed door. My PC is in the same room as the TV and I can’t even concentrate on a tutorial on how to do some editing stuff.
Partner is also suffering from depression so every freaking time I begged to please turn the tv off, it’s just ended in a 30 minute therapy session at home on how I can improve myself.
Anyone in a similar situation?
I get real mad when people use ADHD as an excuse to be an inconsiderate bag of dicks.
I prefer to be interacting with several forms of media, yes. But I don’t need the sound up on all of them, and if I did, I’d put on my BT headphones and mix the sound levels individually. What an asshole.
Yep. I have ADHD and I’d never subject someone else to the cooking video I forgot about, with the tutorial I’m watching, with the Spotify playlist I forgot was on, while the menu track plays on the game I was about to play.
This would be torture for any other human. Even if I, with my ADHD, walked into a room that sounded just like what I just described, I’d be incredibly unable to concentrate. I can only tune out a cacophony of my own doing.
Also, OP, I have misophonia, and this is not that. You are rightfully unable to handle this level of noise. Misophonia is more an intolerance to certain specific sounds. Like I’m 100% peaceful but random kissing noises and smacking make me imagine driving a dagger into someone’s chest. That sort of thing.