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Maybe shes wearing those noise canceling headphones because of her auditory processing condition and not the other way around??

This seems like basic speculative attribution error- no research here.

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This would be my guess as it sounds similar to what I experience and have been experiencing for decades long before any king of noise cancelling headphones. I find it very difficult to process noises when there are too many occurring at once and adding voices into the mix will make it look like I am lagging trying to respond. I have no idea what the underlying condition is, but I consider this problem to be called "misophonia". I think it is about not being able to filter sounds well.

Thankfully I'm not regularly in an environment that force me to wear noise cancelling headphones.

Sometimes I believe this was caused by my childhood bedroom being soundproofed, but I still went to noisy public school so who knows.

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