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[quote=Anonymous]I think what OP did was fine and I would have been grateful to her in that store. I don't know if it's the norm though -- I think I'm more sensitive to loud and sharp sounds than most people are. It really exhausts me and if I'm in a place with sounds like that for any length of time, I often feel like I need to go lie down for a while just to recover.

I'm also a parent and I don't let my kid shriek like that, even at home. I don't stop her by yelling at her (that's counterproductive) but she has known since she is very young that you can't just scream around other people, especially indoors, because it hurts their ears. My husband and I have a deal where activities likely to have shrieking kids (certain birthday parties, for instance) he handles, and I handle other kid activities he doesn't like as much.

I know people with really shrieky kids and I honestly don't know how they let it get like that. I think it affects my central nervous system. Kids shrieking on a playground are okay (as long as I'm not right next to them) because it's outside, but when they do that inside someone's house or a store, it almost makes me feel ill.[/quote]

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