#noxacusis

But every sound that i hear makes me cry (& hurt)

It's like somebody put a weight on my chest

I should talk to a friend

I actually want to get better. If only that happened, if I didn't have these ear diseases, I wouldn't be thinking about this.

But in all seriousness, when I was climbing today there were a lot of young children, and as everyone knows, crowds and young children are very loud. So when a child decides to activate screech, my hyperacusis obviously makes that insanely painful, so I hold shut my ears and make my way out of the room as quickly as possible. Queue everyone staring but nobody doing anything. So once I am in the hallway, where it’s pretty quiet, I sit down and wait for the bad feels to go away, and I kid you not, less than two minutes later most of the kids and their parents also leave the fucking room. And it’s once again loud. One of the dads asks me if I was hurt and I respond “yeah, hyperacusis, noise hurts” and he proceeds to yell at me that it’s not their fault, and that I should really not be in there. Like Sir, I literally just left.

Maybe, if a person is obviously in pain or distress, maybe try to help before you yell at them.