I've noticed noise sensitivity too. In fact, in 2003 my sx diary indicates that I was at a family picnic with my border collie and she and I got unable to tolerate the noise at the same exact time. She's so motion and noise sensitive--but I think that's most border collies--and I could always tell when she needed to get away. So it was really weird that I had the same feelings at the same time.

It's a little better now, but it's still there. I don't like a high noise level. I find it very distracting. It really IS sensory overload. But I also think that it's a processing problem in the brain. Maybe I'll ask the neuropsych that I'm seeing about that and see what he says.