I realized more and more that I barely use my headphones to listen to music or podcasts anymore while outside.
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As ADHD person, I hear you (or rather... I don't which finally let's my brain rest a bit)
And I think to myself, "The World is Quiet Here."
I read that as bussy store and was intrigued
Better with noise canceling too :)
That's why I always keep a pair of ear plugs on me. Never know when you need to block out the noise.
I wish I could feel that but I always only wear loud af music on one ear and the other one stays free because what if someone needs to ask me something and also I tend to be in other peoples way in stores so if I didn't hear anything I would literally just combust
I'm with you, in a store one ear bud in loud enough to block some stuff out, but one ear free so my hyper-vigilance is appeased. But at work (when allowed) or home, both on.
The problem is, for me, noise cancelling often either isn't enough, or creates a much bigger sensory problem when I inevitably have to take the headphones off.
And the settings with a big enough loudness problem to justify noise-cancelling tend to be ones where having to turn it off is inevitable before the noise dies down (to talk to someone)... so I usually don't bother.
Have you tried drowning it with music? I've found noise-canceling + music to be pretty effective and adjusting the headphones off one ear only when I need to hear my surroundings to work decently well.
I listen to music all the time, so probably, but most of the true sensory overloads I remember were when the album I was playing already finished and I still had them on... so I suppose I'll keep that in mind, that transitioning out of noise cancelling may be easier during music.
I wear foam earplugs SO PEOPLE KNOW I WANT QUIET!!!