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How about..."Some people just don't like crowds". My dad and I went to a small hardware store and a BestBuys to get some things. He was 50 and I was 30 at the time. BestBuys was absolutely packed and reminded me of going to a rock concert and the hardware store was empty except for us and one clerk. My dad much preferred the hardware store and I liked Bestbuys better. We're different...no drugs needed to equalize us.

Your dad also unknowingly may have had this. Most persons who have it don't even realize it. I avoid crowds and I like people. I love my family too but I can't be in a room very long with all of them talking at once. I can't carry on a conversation in such a setting because I can't understand who I am talking to. I hear them but I can't understand them. Up till a couple of years ago I had good hearing and I still could not do this.

If your dad ever complained about such things as ringing in the ears that's Vestibular Damage. The extent varies person to person. I have to take the meds because if I don't I seizure. An extreme case of sensory processing disorders not much is known about. It didn't exist as such till the past 50 years or so. Most persons used to call it SHELL SHOCK. The same response.

Shell-shock may have been a bad choice of words. Basically vets when heard loud noises would become startled rather easily. Most doctors attributed it to combat and emotional trauma. Nothing messes up the Vestibular system like loud noises. Dysfunctional or damaged audio filtering makes for a bad startle reflex. Doctors are forgetting that many things they label mental health issues are a secondary result of a primary physical disorder.

I love my family too but I can't be in a room very long with all of them talking at once. I can't carry on a conversation in such a setting because I can't understand who I am talking to.

That happens to me all the time. I have a wife and 8 kids and am a person that likes quiet, except for when I like loud music or my Harley. I just don't trust psychologists when they hear a complaint and want to fix it. If I described the behaviors I've seen in my kids to a shrink, he'd probably put us all on drugs.