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Old 09-10-2008, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by karousel View Post
My DD will talk non-stop, hum, sing, play loud music, talk to her guinea pig constantly so I learned to tolerate it pretty well. If I am having a bad day, I tell her to tune it down and luckily she listens.
HA!

I empathize karousel, as I have one chatterbox daughter too.

From a very young age, I have had to teach her:

"There are 2 (or 3 ... or 5...) people in the room." "Each of us get the same amount of time to choose to talk, or choose to be quiet." "This does not mean it's "free time" for you to occupy the silence talking non-stop".

I've also had to tell her many times that she doesn't need to say every single thing that comes into her mind.

She's better then when she was younger ... but still TOO much.

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Originally Posted by FinLady View Post
Many noises at once, and I go into sensory overload!
I think this whole problem does come down to sensory overload. I am at my worst when I am fatigued, and actually guage whether I need to disconnect from a situation by my irritability level to noise.

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