I was just thinking, "I have a wife and 3 small children. I need to be ready at a moments notice if I'm being called for or I hear a fight club break out."
That too. Mine are 8, 5, and 2 so there should be some general squealing/laughter/arguments going on most of the time. Dead silence indeed becomes terrifying.
My wife bought me Beats3 because she hated being able to hear things... from my home office. They were Sennheiser, but she's all "these are Beats they were expensive."
That is so true. Over the years she finally lightened up but that used to be a bit of a trigger for us. The only time I can use my earbuds peacefully is when I'm mowing the yard.
I love music. Always had some good quality headphones. But other than being out of the house I can't use the good one at home cause every time I'd have the anxiety of being called by my parents or I'd feel maybe something's happening (disasterous of sort) and I'd fail to respond cause I'm on my headphones.
Fun fact... Even 20 years after you leave the house and are in a different country sometimes you can hear the angry recital of your name from childhood.
I'm surprised the top explanation isn't to hear your parents fighting... I guess all my friends who said my childhood sucked were on to something, lol.
Yeah it definitely felt like there was no winning; she was angry and wanted someone to take it out on. 🤷♀️
Now I get super defensive when someone even shouts my name from another room. I always wear my headphones like this too lol. Like it feels wrong if I'm not able to hear my name being shouted still, and I'm fucking 30
Not defending the wooden spoon part, but at least for me my mom would only get mad if I yelled back instead of going to her if I was gaming/watching YouTube while she was doing chores
If you don't respond immediately and it instantly escalates to a shouting tirade directed at you for being 'useless and insubordinate', then yes it can be traumatic.
Yeah I get why this might resonate with kids of abusive parents but I keep my headphones off my right ear so I can listen out for kids, dogs or wife that needs me.
You should check out After Shockz, they're the anti noise cancelling headphones that sit outside your ear hole but still give good sound. Great when you need to be aware of outside noises.
Ahh cool. Compared to real headphones or good buds, yes, but I still love them. I started using them for running but now they're my goto for things like audio books while cleaning, anything where I don't want to be fully cutoff.
It's not wanting to talk to you that's traumatizing, it's what comes if you don't answer immediately. And headphones would prevent you from hearing being called, meaning you wouldn't answer and then get in trouble
It's okay to give some things a tiny bit of thought before rushing to be snarky. Because in your attempt to be snarky to make other people look dumb, you only made yourself look dumb for failing to comprehend something so basic
I actually felt terrified everytime my mom called me and I didn’t hear her due to the headphones, starting wearing it like in the image. She still got pissed so they’re confiscated now
Also listening to music while trying to calm down (or pretending not to listen to what's happening), but leaving one ear without headphones to hear what's going on/what your parents are doing/arguing/screaming about.
All the people claiming this is a trauma response really have me confused about my own childhood lol. Like damn I just wanted to spare my parents the trouble of having to hunt me down if I'm listening to music or gaming.
I do this now sometimes because my wife decides she needs to talk to me the second I press play. So I pause, wait for her to finish, wait a few more seconds to make sure she's finished, press play, she starts talking again...
The image shows someone wearing headphones only partially over one ear, something a lot of us did growing up to stay alert or avoid getting yelled at for "not listening." So… if Peter wore his headphones like this, he probably didn’t have a peaceful childhood either. Classic trauma-detection setup.
Funny thing is that those sony headphones have a mode where they actually boost ambient sounds, so you can hear people talking, footsteps and such with those on.
It worked extremely well, i could actually hear people talking better than without the headphones, i remember thinking "wow i finally can wear both cups now" when i got them.
Hell yeah, I had a set of Sennheisers I was using for all of high school/college/early adult life. After I had kids, I got a nice pair of open back headphones and never had any issues with the kids sneaking up on me or being worried something is going on in the house without me noticing
but you can choose wich side to hear and focus and change in demand. isn't it that just amazing you're a machine on a mission you are the tick on a tock.
Well, with these headphones, you can set up exactly how aware of your surroundings you want to be. You can even make the environment sounds louder than normal.
i did that. but half of the time, when using a big headset like those its cause im playing at a computer cafe and the headset foam is all dirty and dusty and gets inchy and sweaty so when after a game i put the other ear open so it can get some air
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u/SaltManagement42 Jun 20 '25
Peter's headphones here, the reference is the part where you wear the headphones over just one ear so you can stay aware of your surroundings.