ellie-janine:

flowers-not-weeds:

I’ve been thinking about the general representation out there of sound sensitivity.

Usually if sound hypersensitivity is shown on tv/in movies, it’s a busy road, or a supermarket or a loud crowd of people. Things that are gererally loud anyway.

It’s never someone sitting up stairs who can hear the droning buzz of the downstairs water heater clear as day.

Or, being awake at night because it’s too quiet and too loud all at the same time because there are too many quiet, little noises.

Or, having to sing when the kettle is boiling because you can hear so much in the kettle noise your brain turns it into music/voices/other noises.

Or, hearing other people’s doors open and close up and down your street and having to check yours 18 million times a day just to make sure it wasn’t yours.
Or, not hearing someone sitting across the table from you in a quiet room because there are two many noises outside the room.

Or, my favourite, knowing where the garbage truck is on it’s route TWO STREETS AWAY FROM YOURS.

Just, like, step it up guys! Get creative! Hypersensitivity to sound isn’t always just EVERYTHING’S VERY LOUD, sometimes it’s just like hearing the tick of someone typing on a phone from the next room.

Sometimes it’s even pretty handy!

I could literally pick out a whole conversation today when it went dead at work and I was about three or 4 tills away