Yes. It sucks when I'm in group work because there's nothing I can do about it. People talking, paper rustling, the guy beside me doodling with his pensil, is a pensil really this loud? It's like a buzz.
At home I.keep the tv series on, or the music, that covers the rest (better) and helps me focus, on watching or and thinking and searching here.
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"Ever since I was a child, I’ve never allowed myself to get too close to people. I’ve avoided emotional attachment. Perhaps I’ve been so afraid of death and dying that any connection just seemed like a bad thing, something that wouldn’t last." Dana Scully - Christmas Carol.