I don't know if this is a thing for you & others but I get so stressed with a lot of noises. Sometimes the TV is on and my mom answers a call on her phone & says "don't mute it" but I get so so annoyed because I'm listening to her conversation, the TV, noises from the street, other members of my family talking in another room, my dog drinking water ALL at the same time!!! and I can't understand what the characters are saying in the TV and I'm like "stop it, stop it" so I mute at least one noise
YES! This is a very common autistic symptom. Sensory overload is one of the most common symptoms for autistics. Each of us has a different level of tolerance for the 5 senses, and some autisitcs can handle one better than another, but high sensitivity to sound is probably the most common.
Not being able to pick one sound out of a bunch of them is probably Auditory Processing Disorder (but not necessarily, you may just be overwhelmed by Too Much Input, which simply shuts your brain down from being able to process any input).
Here’s a good blurb I found on understood.org:
There are four auditory processing skills that people with APD may struggle with:
Auditory discrimination: noticing, comparing, and distinguishing between separate sounds
Auditory figure-ground discrimination: focusing on the important sounds in a noisy setting
Auditory memory: recalling what you’ve heard, either immediately or in the future
Auditory sequencing: understanding and recalling the order of sounds and words
But even if you DON’T have APD, you can still get Sensory Overload from Too Many Noises or Too Loud Noises or Bad Noises (a Bad Noise is one that makes you feel horrible when you hear it, even if it doesn’t ‘hurt’. The famous one is “nails on a chalkboard”, even allistics understand that one. For me though, the Bad Noises are chewing sounds, plastic bags rustling and potato chip bags crinkling, if I hear that I will cover my ears and rub them really hard to try to “erase” the sound and possibly cry).
This is extremely common in autism and I completely understand you. As for your mom telling you not to mute the TV, I’m not sure why she’s saying that, but if she is the sort of person who is able to listen to you, you can try explaining to her about sensory overload because of sound, and how horrible it is for you, and that muting the TV gives you mental peace.
Whether she understands or not, go ahead and mute it anyway. You need to protect yourself. If she really gets upset, then leave the room. You don’t need to subject yourself to sensory overload under any circumstances.