Not surprisingly, many children and adults with this particular overexcitability attempt to avoid or minimize certain settings of overstimulation.

We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert.

The noise of gunfire rose from all over the center of Peking. It was unremitting.

SWERFs (sex worker exclusionary radical feminists), they also dubbed us TERFs (transgender exclusionary radical feminists) because, as one protester shouted, 'Trans women sex workers of colour are dying thanks to SWERFs!'