Am I old or has shite behaviour become normal behaviour?

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Ok. Fully prepared to be told I am unreasonable but I’m nearly choking from clutching my pearls here….

1. on a plane last week. Child with iPad on full volume. No attempt to reduce volume and no headphones in sight. No one except me seemed to be bothered so I quietly seethed.

2. in John Lewis today. Cafe. Quiet and calm except for parents entertaining toddler by playing baby shark over and over. I felt I had to leave. No one else seemed to even flinch.

3. the gym yesterday. Watching greys anatomy with my headphones on. Still had subtitles because the noise from spin was a LOT. Guy gets on the one next to me and sticks a programme on full volume. I went for pointed look but not up for confrontation tbh. He moved around the gym with his super loud programme following him.

IS THIS NORMAL. Or am I turning into cranky old bint. Am only 46. Didn’t see it coming.

If she can wear a hat, (in the winter?), she can wear a beanie with integrated headphones

I would have 100% told them to shut up.

Someone behind us sang along at The Lion King musical - they got told to pack it in

Not true, I'd rather a restless child making noise than listen to digital sounds from a kids device

You're in the minority then

On public transport or in a coffee shop, if my autistic dd needs to stim loudly or jump around to regulate herself, I'd get stares and commentss from people who feel that they could better parent such a child or didn't have autism in their day

I spend my time calming her and having her tablet on a very low volume, which only someone right next to her could hear, does that

Edited for typo

She doesn't like to wear a hat in the winter?

We have a better understanding of children's different needs today. And actually i find that there's much less tolerance of children being noisy than there used to be

Steve jobs was an angel who made the lives of stressed out parents a little bit easier

Haven't RTFT but in response to the opening post:

This is why I NEVER leave the house without my noise cancelling headphones. I simply can't BEAR other people's noise.

...chatting, interacting

Especially this. I find it so sad to see so many young children out and about whose parents simply ignore them.

Some of my most precious recollections from my children's childhood are all the stuff they used to tell me - observations of what they were seeing, things that happened at school that day, something one of their pals told them about, questions about things they didn't understand or were curious about...

What things???

We have more of an awareness of differing children's needs today

On public transport or in a coffee shop, if my autistic dd needs to stim loudly or jump around to regulate herself, I still get some stares and comments from people who feel that they could better parent such a child or didn't have autism in their day

I spend my time calming her and having her tablet on a very low volume, which only someone right next to her could hear, does that

Thank God for Steve jobs, may he rest in peace

Yes OP peoples behaviour has become awful.

Not everyone of course but I do find drivers are more aggressive, people are less considerate, good manners seems to be a thing of the past and loud, loud, loud everything seems to be normal.

It drives me bonkers.

The country feels too crowded, houses are smaller and closer together and services are all overstretched or unavailable.
I think it's making us all angry and hate each other.

Honestly, OP I feel your pain.I'm a bit older than you and I just feel like I'm on a different planet sometimes. My husband went to help our tenants when the boiler broke down. The boiler is in the living room. He went with a heating engineer. Half way into fixing the boiler, the tenants put on porn and settled into watch. My husband didn't know where to look, but the heating engineer enjoyed the situation, fortunately.