Anybody else find life to loud, colourful and fast? Looking back at old tv things has made me long for the past.

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Am I being silly or is life just too hectic and busy. Big screens everywhere- on the bus , in the waiting room at the doctors. Loud music in shops with bright displays. Even billboards at the bus stop change and flicker.
I was watching an old documentary on YouTube and it just seemed like like was duller in the past but calming and just nicer.
Anyone else feel like this?

edited to say I’m sorry about the typo in the title.

Life has definitely got a lot louder and more intrusive. We are constantly being overstimulated. It’s exhausting.

Yes over stimulated sums it up completely.

Yep, pretty much everything in life is too big or loud or just too much for me. Too much choice as well, I much preferred it when life was simpler and quieter. I'm 50 and autistic so maybe that's part of it but the world is just so different now from when I was young and a lot of it is really not to my liking.

Definitely. I'm autistic and had to go straight home from the town centre the other day - I needed to go in - because it was so crowded and loud and I started to feel weird and panicky. I only go to smaller supermarkets now as the big ones are too loud, busy and bright. Never used to be like this. I think places are overcrowded now. The roads are the same.

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Have some relaxing vintage supermarket muzac

Yes and people werent crying mental health every 5 minutes.

Life was easier without the technology everywhere and it's driving everyone batty.

Cars arent cars anymore.

Well yes, this is one of the main reasons that so many people are being diagnosed with different conditions linked with sensory processing because the overwhelming onslaught means they are less able to cope with other things when even just 20 years they would have been and therefore managed the condition they probably did not know they had.

Yeah, my husband's car tells him what to do not the other way round. I'm still in a simpler one although I do have a screen which results in me not being able to find my favourite radio stations and there's no cd player so I have no personal music 😭

It's official it's got much louder everywhere now and people talk at higher volume because they have to in order to be heard.

I'm seriously considering getting some noise cancelling headphones like the ones I've seen Asperger's sufferers wear but I don't know where to get them.

I’m not autistic or have a diagnosed sensory issue and I find it too much.

Hadn’t thought of this but it makes sense.

You're not wrong. I live in the countryside and whenever I go anywhere busy my head gets fried.

@Chowtime DDs overear ones are from Amazon Anker Sound core, can be noise cancelling with or without music. Putting them on is like giving your brain a rrest and makes a huge difference, I once wore her spares on a busy train carriage and couldn't believe the difference it made.

If you are after the in ear ones then look online for Calms or Loops.

Yes it's a problem for me but I tend to assume it suits others or we wouldn't have got this far along this path

I dunno

someone's electric car charger is beeping away continuously by the window as I type

I think Sherlock sums it up in his explanation that maybe he'd not have been an addict if he'd been born in a quieter time

I'm not an addict but have given up on a lot of things because I can't manage sensory overload

he says it, very eloquently, at 1:40

there is a shorter clip but I can't face finding it because I need to stop looking at my phone 😂

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H87E4KI9DbA&pp=ygUiU2hlcmxvY2sgZWxlbWVudGFyeSB3b3JsZCB0b28gbm9pcw%3D%3D

edit to add - people always suggest headphones. I have them but they only improve a train journey by about 10%. You've still got the other 90% to manage. And invasive massive screens are the very devil.

I was JUST going to make a post like this the other day!

For me life is mainly too loud and fast but yes, I get so easily overwhelmed by it, especially the noise.

Me and my DH both feel the same. Constantly overstimulated. So much information, notifications, noise etc

Definitely.
Looking forward to living on my own and just shutting the door of my apartment.
F the world.
😁

Totally agree, getting out in woods with my dog saves my sanity. Too much noise, too much bustle, every shop lit like Blackpool illuminations, particularly this time of year.
Work= noise, phones, people, banging, forklift beeping, background music...I'm shot by 5pm...

I rarely go physical shopping these days, much prefer the quiet of the internet.

Saturday night tv is an explosion of colour turned up to 11. God knows how people watch strictly etc without sunglasses.

People talking loudly on mobile phones and the constant sound of cars driving round with the sound of phones ringing through
Bluetooth.
Hardly ever saw people queuing outside phone boxes but these days it seems folk need to constantly talk.

People putting Christmas lights up before Bonfire night

Whenever I go to the cinema I think, 'Damn, why didn't I bring the earplugs, to reduce the noise a bit."

I don't think I'm ill from the modern racket but I do think that my great grandmother, living within a mile of where I am, heard very few cars, lots of steam trains, horses and carts, the noises of peoples' voices, but no radio or TV or phones.

I can take steps to quieten things at home - I once did - but I do want to go to town sometimes and I can't avoid the noise and flashing lights there.

Mmm, shall I go to town towards the end of November and fill the freezer and then refuse to go out until Dec 29th?? I'll think about that!

Editted to put in one word I'd missed out.

Yes! I hate the screens. Dh and I sat outside at a restaurant and right next door the pharmacy had an advertising screen that was so bright and playing adverts on a loop. It was horrible.

Yes it's a problem for me but I tend to assume it suits others or we wouldn't have got this far along this path

I’m not sure I know anyone it suits, really. I guess some of people make lots of money out of the constant bombardment of the rest of us with adverts and what an ideal lifestyle should look like and what we’re supposedly missing out on. I hate it.

Actually loads of women were on tranquillisers in the 70s they just didn't tell people. My mum was on a cocktail of prescription drugs.