Do you wear ear protector or defenders in public?

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Yeah, I wear them in public. Carry a pair of folding east defenders or whatever you want to call them in my backpack always so I can use them whenever I need them. I also carry ear plugs but don't like ear plugs. I will stack them though, wearing the ear plugs under the ear defenders when I need extra protection.

There are certain times I regularly wear them because I always need them, and otherwise it's really of I need them.

Oh, and functioning labels are stupid, people mean all sorts of things by then and usually are not actually being helpful with them.

But:
High IQ
Verbal
Severe sensory issues (fine with "severe" here because I'm pretty solidly having all types of traits there)

Probably gives you the info you actually want

I often wear headphones with music in public. If I walk by a construction area and there's a jackhammer or some other loud noise I have to physically plug my ears or I can't even manage walking.

I already miss out on too many crucial signals without shutting them out.

I wear earplugs when I go to gigs or clubs though (which is pretty rare).

No, I do however wear headphones a lot of times to listen to music....not sure what is meant by having a 'handler' present, what is that? Like someone you hire to go with you everywhere and make sure things don't get out of hand?

The only noise I hate the most on this planet are the sound of toddlers screeching and crying. I can tolerant lots of other irritating noises (like noisy motorbikes or loud car engines), but toddlers having a tantrum? No way. But I don't like to have earplugs either in case people see and wonder why I have earplugs in. Even if nobody notices or even cares, I still feel paranoid.

I remember I once went out to the supermarket with earplugs in. It was a cold day so I had my hat on that comes over my ears so nobody saw them. Although it did cancel out the horrible noise of toddlers everywhere, I still felt strange and a bit claustrophobic. I kept on worrying in case a friend of mine or a friend of the family might come up to me to say hello, and when they see me take out an earplug they might wonder why I had earplugs in.

Society seems to be against earplugs for some reason. They are only socially acceptable on an airplane (as what I have been told by NTs who have traveled on an airplane). It's funny how tolerance is only done in certain contexts.

I own noise-dumping earplugs, that are fitted to my ears, so they dont feel uncomfortable and can be carried for hours.

The good thing about them, is that they only reduce sound volume about 45 dB. Because of me having very senstivive and good hearing, that still let me hear if people talk to me directly and similar. But it simply makes loud noises more moderate, and it shuts off lots of more silent humming noises, that are produced by machines, lamps, displays, ...

They are regularly called here musicians/studio earplugs, so they are specialised on not dumping the sound itself, but only to reduce the volume of sounds.

I wear them regularly in work, swimming places, for sleep on weekend... Because of me still being able to understand people talking directly at me, almost nobody mentions, when I wear them. So they dont really cause much problem with other people.

What does this mean?

What does this mean?

I carry earplugs with me and put them in whenever I find myself in loud situations like restaurants, band concerts, etc. I want to get some proper noise-blocking headphones because if I wear my earplugs for too long, they start making the insides of my ears sore. The only reason I don't is because people wearing big clunky headphones who aren't construction workers are often seen as mentally disabled (in my experience) and I don't want to carry that kind of stigma around. On the bus, I listen to music on my ipod, which helps block out a lot of the annoying, tedious conversations of the other passengers when I'm trying to think, as well as the squeaking of the unoiled doors and screeching children, which is near the top of my list of most intolerable sounds.

Someone with you at all times in public, makes sure you are safe and others are safe from you.

What does that have to do with wearing ear defenders?

Someone who wears ear defenders is probably more likely to be low functioning.

I do but not always its hard wearing it with glasses so that's why i don't wear them a lot.

Having very sensitive hearing is related to being low functioning? I don't see how you come to that conclusion.

And why ask if people have handlers? If you want to find out if they are "low functioning," why not just ask that directly?

The more severe your autism the worst your sensory issues are and the more low functioning you are.