How to explain noise sensitivity?

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Lately all noise has been bothering me more than usual, and i am wondering how i can explain this to my family?
Also how can i tell teachers?
If i am trying to do math and other people are talking or working in a group and discussing answers i cannot concentrate, and it makes me want to cry and just go home?
Does anyone who any solutions?
I keep headphones with me but they dont take out all the noise even with music on.

Thanks

Here's a description I once read that seems to apply,
mixed in with my own experience:

Imagine that you are wearing a hearing aid with the volume turned all the way up, full blast.
You can hear every single bit of distracting background noise coming from all directions,
in the same room even from way across the room, from the room upstairs, from the room downstairs,
from the hallway.
All at the same time.
When somebody is standing right in front of you saying something,
it gets mixed in with everybody else's conversations and all the background noise ...
Because you just heard a pin drop out in the hall,
you got momentarily distracted and did not hear
what the person directly in front of you was saying.

Yep, this happens to me.
Industrial ear plugs don't work.

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For me i describe specific noises as just painful to my ear drums, such as : balloons popping, children laughing and screaming, airplanes, motorcycles and cars (regardless on what type) clapping, dog bark, plates banging together, metal hitting metal, birds, peoples voices

General noice clutter is more hard on my actual brain, it feels like vibration or buzzing in my head which leads to sensory overload.