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You’re not weird – you are true to yourself and your needs

Posted in autism et al, kudos, noise sensitivity, working & jobs on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

my supervisor knows the issues i have working in this crowded environment. yesterday he sent me this email:
My wife, who is very sensitive to noise, uses these all the time and swears by them. They are expensive, but have been a life-saver for us:
http://www.bose.com/…
She uses the Quiet Comfort 2. They can plug in to [...]

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headphones for sleeping, preliminary thoughts

Posted in autism et al, noise sensitivity on December 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »

my headphones died. they’ve been with me for 4 years, sony mdr-v150’s. it’s very sad.
i’ve always been hypersensitive to noise (even as a little kid), it just seems that it’s getting a little more entrenched now that i’m in my 30s. possibly it’s not that i’m getting more noise sensitive, instead i’m [...]

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about asperger’s syndrome, in plain english

Posted in auditory processing disorder, autism et al, communication, housing, life, meta & thought, noise sensitivity, relationships, sex, socializing, synaesthesia, testing & diagnosis, working & jobs on July 23, 2007 | 21 Comments »

i was having a harder time than normal functioning on saturday, and hung out with a friend despite this fact. having a hard time navigating in my head choices regarding what to do, planning, i was breaking down, cuz i was really tired. we had a bit of an impasse resulting from this, [...]

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