Hmmmmm maybe that's why I could hear the TV thru several closed doors when I was growing up & trying to study. Even now if I have radio going when I try to read I'd drowns out the words I'm reading.

Also my dad was the only one in the house who was constantly clearing his throat & blowing his nose. It annoyed me but I no one else did that so I thought I was only bothered by him & his nervous actions....thought everyone else would be bothered too & thought probably why my parents didn't have social friends....

Can see how my reactions might be a low scale version of this.

April72....re your brain lesions....I have non-stop migraines that started when I was 42 & at 62 still am dealing with them. Pain specialist from UCLA in Calif wanted me to have an MRI...it showed lesions also & he said they were caused by having the really bad migraines. No they don't cause the migraines but are caused by them. For me the only thing that helps my migraines is pain meds unlike normal migraines not controlled by them. They also do a block monthly with lidocaine on long q- tips in the back of my nose. With the migraines, sound, light & worst of all smells are amplified & make the migraines worse...now mostly smell which isn't good living in the country with wandering skunks