Do other parents feel this overwhelmed by noise or is it just me?

It’s the worst thing about parenting for me. My DS is a bellower and DD is a screecher. Add to that toys, DH, TV …

I'm honestly not being facetious when I say I would cope far better with a swarm of bees in the room than I do with the kids playing, TV on, video playing on husband's phone, tumble dryer knocking around in the other room, pulse rushing in ears... Like the panic is so real and so impossible to ignore, I get the physical urge to run from the house.

On the rare occasion I get some time to myself in the house, I don't even put the TV on.

I read a book recently which said that females have evolved to have slightly different hearing, which means the sound of children crying incites more of a reaction in females than males. Crazy!

I was feeling very on edge today as a result of my DC's constant tuneless humming (apparently she was excited), it really grated even though it wasn't hugely offensive!

I understand op. Yesterday I was standing in my kitchen playing white noise through my ear buds while my son was having a meltdown. The sensory pain was immense. It's such a hard situation to deal with that sometimes you have to make the space physically safe for them and remove yourself while still observing.

Omg this is me exactly. When my step kids scream and shout and fight it seriously doesn’t seem to affect DP whatsoever. However, it makes me SO anxious. I absolutely hate it when they kick off.

Noise drives me crazy and just absolutely drains me. My husband is the same way.

if you have an ASD child, the odds are very high that like me, you also have ASD. It makes us more sensitive to noise and chaos.

i recommend loop earplugs.

also sometimes mommy needs timeout. In our house timeout is when a person declares they need time to decompress so they don’t have a meltdown. As a parent, I can never take long, but taking 10 minutes and laying in a dark quiet room can make a huge difference.

I'm like that. When everyone is shouting at once, my heart starts thumping and in my head I can see all the overlapping words and sounds appearing as TV captions in front of me. Absolute state of overwhelm and I lose it frequently. Sometimes I wear earplugs at weekends but that has other drawbacks. Was never like this before kids.