Quote Originally Posted by Jolt View Post
Interestingly, I've found that even music that has words tends to distract me, so I've made playlists that are all instrumental and those work much better. It's like I can't help listening when someone is saying something! Is anyone else like this, or am I just weird?
I'm like that, but even worse. I simply cannot work with any music or talking in the background at all...not even instrumental stuff. I play music in my spare time for fun with friends a lot, and any music on anywhere grabs my mind and pulls my attention to it. I can't work with that, it's way too distracting to me. Happily, I work at home (technical illustrator) and can have relative quiet to work in.

I find tv to be a very disturbing background noise- too much yelling (both "cheery" yelling in ads, and angry yelling), too many loud sudden noises, and too much stop/start/stop/start explosive type music....all highly aggressive sounding, even the canned laughter is rather explosive. Yuk. Constant TV racket was actually one of the breaking points of a former marriage. Blissfully, since then, I actually have not watched tv AT ALL in 9 years now. And my new DH and I think alike and like the very same things. Aaaahhhhhh.......