I get easily overwhelmed too, especially if more than one person is talking at a time. I never have music playing, and I have the tv down as low as possible when hubby is watching (he has advanced industrial deafness so likes tv loud) and have subtitles too when its just me. I have too much 'head noise' to contend with to cope with other unnecessary additional auditory input. But as Pegasus put originally, its the 'necessary' additional auditory input that we have to listen to that gets missed or messed up. I wonder if it is an actual part of having DID?

Just off the track a little...as it seems that pdocs etc range between vague and black/white about DID symptomology, I wonder if those of us on her were to run a thread or blog where we could list symptoms that we can't attribute to another cause and see if we come up with some common denominators that we all might actually share, instead of us feeling so alone and isolated with our 'stuff'. I'm sure most of you reading this are like me and simply don't talk or discuss every day nuances that have been 'got used to' yet still impede on every day life to make it just that much harder, using the current subject as an example.

Anyway, sorry to hijack thread, just a thought as I was rambling on... I'll go away now!!

kp