If you didn’t know, I’m high functioning autistic which used to be called asperger’s. It makes me intolerant of most noises, especially the loud & sudden variety of them. Fireworks scare & stress out my poor cat and sometimes they get to me, too. The parade is full of honking vehicles, some with sirens. I just can’t cope unless I’m blasting my mp3 player into my ears. I have ear plugs but I don’t feel as normal with those so I just have my mp3 player & ear buds with wires stuck in my head when I need it.

Right off the bat Kenny lists a lot of things that irritate my autistic senses like downtown construction, music buzzing, speakers blown etc. When I hear loud subwoofers either from my apartment neighbors or a boom car’s owner that stops by to visit 1 of the neighbors it makes the walls & floors shake with noise. Somehow Kenny forgot about the freight trains & airplanes which cause some of the biggest noise, aside from guns or bombs. When it gets noisy enough I can’t sleep or think and I often can’t escape the noise, especially if its from a freight train 2 blocks away from my place. The lawn mowers are also loud when they mow the grass once a week and the snow blowers in winter are just under that. I often find myself trying to drown out the noise with more noise.

I’m also highly annoyed with the shouting politicians and everyone stuck in their smart phones all the dang time. I’ve had a smart phone the past few years but no more, I’m giving it up for a simple feature phone that costs me nothing at all, even for calls & texts. I’m low income so I qualified easily & will be migrating the same # from my recently purchased “old” phone to the new one. I have a tablet with wifi if I feel the need to get on facebook or much of the same things that the more expensive phones are capable of. There’s a local place that helps abused women so I may donate the smart phone to that. I’ve had it too long for a refund.

This is a great song and I just want to thank Kenny for getting it out there. He probably didn’t intend for it to become an autistic anthem but to me it finally feels like I’m being heard. I feel neglected often when I complain about noise. This song is exactly what goes on inside my head on a daily basis! I literally can’t sleep on noisier nights (storms, trains, noisy neighbors) or think my way through a noisy day!