amen.

DH likes to play audiobooks while we prep bulk food, or fruit for the dehydrator, or have plucking parties.

that's great, but... if he starts talking to me, we have to hit REWIND.

because... when two things are coming at me at once, I am no longer able to screen out tone, to concentrate on the other.

so, I hear NEITHER, just cacophony.

it's not so much aa sensitivity to noise, because, like others have said above, I LIKE to crank up the tunes, especially piano concertos, and classic rock (like Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Depeche Mode)

my personal theory is that I'm already on "overload" from screening out so much with my body (zings, buzzes, zaps, spazzes, aches, tingles, blah blah blah) so one more thing is the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.