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Wait wait wait. Is the hearing all the conversations around you an ADHD thing? Are you serious? I just thought it was like, an ability.
It's a curse
It puts my brain to 150% processing and I just wanna listen to one conversation and aaaaaa
Even when I can't listen to the dozens of voices due to them being nearly inaudible it still enables the part of my brain to try to decode them, so about 75% is used to try to listen to words that I don't even wanna listen to
This is why ANC is heaven
African National Congress is heaven?
Active noise cancelling
I can't do noise cancelling because then I get in my head about not being aware of my surroundings, and what if I needed to hear something in order to not die? Hey, it's possible.
Oh cool. those bose headphones saved my ass when was forced to work in open cafeteria style tech offices