I Am An Introvert Infp

If only i could control the volume of the noises and voices and all kinds of sounds entering my ears, i would keep it on mute or at its lowest 75% of time!
Where is the mute button on my ears in real life?
I don’t want to hear nor am I interested in all that chatter of people!

Let me be selective in what goes on into my ears.

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4meAndyou · F

My mother actually went deaf, and I noticed that she only responded to me when she was facing me. She had apparently learned to read lips and didn't know she was doing it.

We spent $6000.00 on state of the art hearing aids for her, only to discover that she hated the world of sound. She would start and freak out when she heard a bird singing. She really hated being able to hear and she was always taking the hearing aids out.

Eventually, dementia overtook her mind, (and that sometimes happens to people who can't or won't hear normal sounds and voices), and she left her hearing aids on a low table, and she allowed her little black pug dog to chew $6000.00 to pieces.

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4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Dogs eat disgusting things all the time. Probably thought they were chew toys...🤣

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I've read a column by a vet who said that dogs and even cats will chew on wires and other plastic things because they put beef tallow in the plastic. I think there should be a law that hearing aid providers warn their customers that hearing aids, if taken out of their ears, should be placed in a container that snaps shut securely to keep pets from consuming them.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Especially if they cost $3000.00 per ear. It wouldn't have helped in my mother's case, though. The dementia had caused her to be so ornery she was probably hoping the dog would chew them. She reminded me of a naughty, willful, malicious 6 year old at times.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

My parakeets need a Mute button for when I am talking on the phone.

PhoenixPhail · M

I'm an INFJ.

For me, the mute button is taking my focus off of those things that take my breath away, and focus on things which align me with Source.

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PhoenixPhail · M

@ethereal Nature, music and meditation are the things which most align me with Source.

INFJ and INFP sounds like a pretty good combination. 🤗

ethereal · F

@PhoenixPhail meditation for me too, but haven’t gotten time for it for now. I live in a huge family of 7 people and it gets exhausting sometimes. Music has become my meditation. I used to crave for solitude to be able to meditate, but i have come to accept that i won’t be getting much solitude for some time now. Phases come and go. :)

Yes, it is. We understand each other quite well. 🤗

PhoenixPhail · M

@ethereal Maybe you can find the calm within the storm by creating the perfect quiet room in your mind and retreating to it when you need, even, and especially, in the midst of hectic-ness and turmoil.

This is what I've had to do in SO MANY circumstances.

AmandeepSingh · 36-40, M

Same here. I put my YouTube playing on with earphones plugged in when sound from other room is too much to resist.

ethereal · F

@AmandeepSingh I listen to music too, but i need quietness to think and write, but doesn’t seem to happen these days a lot.

AmandeepSingh · 36-40, M

@ethereal I also needed when I was doing studies. I cannot read newspaper or watch television if someone else talking in other room in a noise level which is not bearable to me.

SW-User

Do noise isolating earbuds help you?

ethereal · F

@SW-User They do help a bit, or i simply listen to music but sometimes the quietness is what i need.

SW-User

@ethereal I understand. I'm very sensitive to noise also.

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