There's the thing: it's only an approximation, to give a taste.
I also like my music loud, within reason, and I love thunder. But a truck going past on the street sets me to grinding my teeth and grimacing in pain until it's gone.
The conversation in the cube farm isn't really loud, but it's there, and I can't filter it out. And I can't make any sense out of the word soup either. I can't focus on any given conversation and listen to that: I get all of them at once as a noxious soup. Occasionally one or two words will bubble to the top and be noticed, but sink again before I can figure out what's being said.
Ironically, my CAPD is my best defence: to turn up the music and get involved in the visual/written world on the screen, and after a while I can't hear anything. No, really, the auditory center of my brain figures it's not needed and switches off for a while.
And then someone needs to talk to me, and their voice is just one in the background, and unless it's quiet enough (and my standards of ‘quiet enough’ differ from most folk's), I really have to concentrate to keep hold of their voice, like catching an eel with slippery hands.
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Date: 2010-11-03 07:47 pm (UTC)I also like my music loud, within reason, and I love thunder. But a truck going past on the street sets me to grinding my teeth and grimacing in pain until it's gone.
The conversation in the cube farm isn't really loud, but it's there, and I can't filter it out. And I can't make any sense out of the word soup either. I can't focus on any given conversation and listen to that: I get all of them at once as a noxious soup. Occasionally one or two words will bubble to the top and be noticed, but sink again before I can figure out what's being said.
Ironically, my CAPD is my best defence: to turn up the music and get involved in the visual/written world on the screen, and after a while I can't hear anything. No, really, the auditory center of my brain figures it's not needed and switches off for a while.
And then someone needs to talk to me, and their voice is just one in the background, and unless it's quiet enough (and my standards of ‘quiet enough’ differ from most folk's), I really have to concentrate to keep hold of their voice, like catching an eel with slippery hands.