My daughter Ella likes to take pictures. She can often be seen jumping out from behind furniture to capture that all important candid shot. Some of them turn out to be fabulous pics but a lot of them are just downright embarrassing! I must admit that she has captured some fabulous memories though!
Anyway, I was looking through her latest album of randoms and I noticed a bit of a theme with the photographs of me. It is a theme that relates to how I cope.
I decided that it was time to come clean on here but first – I need to give you all some history.
Harley and Lucas are loud.
No, I’ll make it clearer than that… Harley and Lucas are REALLY LOUD!!!! 
Harley has major sensitivities to noise and Lucas is like a human foghorn.
Now….you would think that with Harley having such strong aversions to loud noises that he wouldn’t make too much of it himself wouldn’t you? Um…..no, sadly that’s not the case! He can often be found screaming at the top of his lungs at his siblings, at me, at the toy that just.won’t.do.what.it’s.told and at all of the screens in the house that don’t give him the result he requires.
He also has a loud monotone talking voice and I gotta tell you that the constant noise in this house DRIVES ME NUTS!!!!!
I also want to add that after I had brain surgery to remove a tumour 5 years ago and am now 100% deaf in my right ear and as a result – I have become extremely protective of the hearing that I do have left. So the boy’s constant noise can start to get to me a lot sooner than it used to because I have trouble filtering sounds nowadays. I never had a problem with crowds in shopping centres or loud music in other people’s cars at the traffic lights or even general kid noise but over the last few years – I really really can’t take it.
I suppose my stress levels being at a constant high wouldn’t help much either – but back to Ella’s penchant for candid photos…
These next 5 photos that Ella took of me feature me “coping with the noise”…..or not! (And for the record…..the horrible black leggings in most photos are my “house pants”….eeeewww I know!)
⬇THIS⬇ is how I cope 
Cooking in silence (look closely at my head)
Vacuuming in silence
Blog reading in Silence
Making beds in silence
Cleaning teeth in silence
And occasionally I drive wearing my trusty headphones because you CAN’T ESCAPE when you’re in a car LOL!
I absolutely love this blog!!! Hey both my boys are loud too and hubby says that its because all I do is scream at them and talk so loud in turn but I am glad someone else has loud boys makes me feel better. I must get myself a pair of those headphones. I put on headphones whilst at the computer but not nice ones like that! Good on you, you have to get peace somehow love.
Yes!!! Go get some!!!!! Lol
I love you, you do make me giggle. I also love that you take what life throws at you and always see the humour in it.
xx
Yep *Harley and *Lucas are loud but so lovely with it. Also I do believe that you being deaf in one ear helps you understand what it’s like for those of us who struggle with this sensory difficulty.
I love these photos Fi, you are just so you!
Love you my lovely friend, so very much.
Lees. Xxxx
Oh yep…I’m on my mobile in the cafe, so correct any mistakes for me please.
I hadn’t thought of it like that! Maybe that’s why I know when the noise levels are going to send Harley off because I’m usually also agitated at the same time….huh!
Look at skinny you. One question: Do you only own one pair of leggings or did you buy multiple pairs so you could wear them every day? LOL
I actually own four pairs but I noticed that I’m wearing the same ones in these pics! Lol
The other pairs are full length – these are the only 3/4 ones
Hello again, I’m still on my mobile in the cafe. I wanted to reply but I can’t from my mobile so I had start a new comment…hehe
I keep telling you Fi, you get us Aspie so much better than most NT’s.
Love you my lovely friend, God has made you very special.
Lees. Xxxx
We had to get all three kids those headphones….I use them often because of my own sensory issues with sound. I need to get my own.
How you described your boys is exactly how Daniel (sound sensitive but LOUD) and Joshua (no awareness what-so-ever, foghorn) are. Constant noise, yes. Me overloaded, yes.
And Ariel is a picture taker too, that is where my new fb profile pic came from. She gets some embarrassing shots! Sometimes I post them because they are too funny.
House pants! Lol! I laugh because that seems to be the majority of my wardrobe. House pants! I just like saying that. Sorry, I am a bit goofy today.
Have you found that it seems to reach epic sound proportions while making lunch or dinner? It seems to reach new levels during those times around here.
*House pants* giggle giggle giggle……
I LOVE goofy!
Oooh yes…..it definitely escalates whenever I am preparing food OR on the phone…that’s another bad one!
I think I may have to get some like that…. they’re a good visual signal of showing when Mum is busy too. Big and brightly coloured.
x
Oh yeah!!!! I didn’t think of that either!!
My husband keeps his noise canceling headphones in the car too! You know…for my son…yeah, right! I think it’s a fabulous idea. we all need a break like that.
Hehehe…he’s a clever man!
I want a pair of those cool green headphones too! Just think of all the moans and groans and ‘mum can i have/get/do.etc etc’ that I could block out??!!
xx Jazzy
You SO have to get some….they’re fabulous!
Oh if that’s the most embarrassing bunch of pics Ella ever takes, count yourself very blessed!
You look great.
No, they’re just the only ones I’d ever post on here lol!
lol, Fi you always make me smile
Love putting headphones on and entering my own little world……………. house pants lol lol xxx
Awww, thanks Jo!
And yes….LOVE my housepants