DAE experience becoming "addicted" to active noise-cancelling headphones? A while back I bought some to use on planes and found I liked that they were wireless and fit comfortably against my (large) ears so that I started using them for gaming, watching movies, and listening to music. Okay, so far so good.
But recently I've found myself wearing them, switched on, all the time, even when I'm not using them for audio. They cut out a lot of the ambient noise like the refrigerator and such (I live in an apartment building in the dense core of Seattle, so there's plenty of other noise too). By "found myself" I mean I'll put them on intending to watch a movie or something, but when I change my mind and don't actually use them for audio... I keep them on anyways, and sometimes I find myself surprised to be wearing them hours later. When I take them off, the ambient noise is unbearable for a few minutes, even though I'm usually okay with it (in fact I live here where there's a lot of ambient noise on purpose, although I'm not sure if I can quite express why).
Have other aspies experienced this? Should I be worried about long-term impacts to my ability to tolerate ambient noise?
Submitted June 18, 2017 at 03:41AM by jfta990 http://ift.tt/2rDeFYu aspergers
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