I don’t have autism, but I’m genuinely curious. Do you take them out when you want to listen to live music?

What situations do you wear the noise cancelling headphones and in what situations do you take them out?

I have heard that for non-autistic people anyway, tuning out noise is a skill that your brain has to learn, and that’s why the health organizations recommend it limiting your time on noise cancelling headphones.

Is it different for people with autism?

So, I’m in my 40s, and have never really used noise cancellation. My brain has had all of the time in the world to learn how to do this. Instead, it chooses to amplify and focus on background noise.

Having a conversation in a noisy public space is literally just me doing my best to guess what you are saying at any given time. All I hear is a loud hiss of crowd noise.