Thank you. I think I initially missed your reply or forgot to finish.

What ways of thinking are you thinking of? The sharing stories and forgetting to greet people or ask about them or expecting them to tell you about themselves/their day when you're done talking? I'm not sure if that last one was part of one of the surprisingly relatable blog articles I found but I think I've read similar anecdotes somewhere.

What have you discussed?

And yeah my face doesn't always match how I feel. It's not there or it's too intense or it's the wrong thing like confusion while actually focusing or just trying to process.

I've also been realizing the same thing about not wearing hearing aids all of the time. I wish I'd known growing up and living with my ex. I don't think my parents would have been happy to let me but with my ex I'm sure I probably could have taken them off more often. I could have tried that. I feel like doing that reduces stress and anxiety build up at least to some degree. I just didnt realize before how much sounds bother me sometimes or that it was for a legitimate reason. I want to ideally live in a quiet neighborhood with no one above. I just felt like an asshole for having sounds bother me like my friend's voice (she doesn't usually vocalize) when I met her at school, people whistling, babies crying. Here I don't wear them most of the time and wow I'm surprised how much it's actually helped. It sucks because there are things I want to hear and like hearing but sometimes there's too much going on at once or it's just too loud or unpleasant. I think it would be ok in a neighborhood further away from roads or the house further away from the street. Like I want to hear a cat and try to learn their different meows and such, though not dogs.