I have never really had a problem sitting down and watching a movie or a television show.

However, if an interesting show comes on... I feel the need to incease the volume. I am not sure if I am doing this to minimize the noise of distractions around me...or what.

I know someone (poss. ADD) that cant stand the television volume loud...and I can get annoyed when she makes me turn down the volume.

I feel like I suddenly cant hear everything they say on t.v, and with that frustration I lose interest.

Since suspecting ADD, there are alot of behaviours I am slowly realizing that I have. It is almost refreshing because I am learning about myself and why I do the things I do.
I am eager to get "professionally diagnosed" so that I can finally relax and understand who I am, and what makes me me.

I find it hard to watch TV, sitting down for any length of time is a problem for me... :D

I think I have the TV quite loud when im watching it and my brother (Also ADHD) almost always tells me to turn it down and it annoys him a lot.

If I have the volume lower then I like it, it turns into background noise and Im distracted, once im distracted I can't get back whatever it is that im watching.

I tend to prefer the volume down lower. If it's too high, I can't seem to concentrate on what is going on. The volume is a distraction itself. Is that weird or what?!?:rolleyes:

I tend to prefer the volume down lower. If it's too high, I can't seem to concentrate on what is going on. The volume is a distraction itself. Is that weird or what?!?:rolleyes:
I get that sometimes too, if the volume is really high all I can think about is the noise, I just think they I like my volume higher then most people, but not so high that it distracts me.

My husband has the volume up all the time. It drives me nuts. The only time I have it up that high is if he's snoring:D

I tend to prefer the volume down lower. If it's too high, I can't seem to concentrate on what is going on. The volume is a distraction itself. Is that weird or what?!?

Nope not from my space time side of the planet.

When the TV volume is tooo loud it gives me a head ache . . . .after the volume gives me head ache if it doesn’t get turned down or I can’t escape I become irritable and think about ways this painful sound can be eliminated permeate like!



I know someone (poss. ADD) that cant stand the television volume loud...and I can get annoyed when she makes me turn down the volume.

They have amplifying head phone, many I have seen have a really long cord toooo Another thing which helped me when I had a house full of noisy kids was using the captions. I could still read above the ever changing noise levels.

When I decide it's time to loaf, and everything else is done that can possibly be done, I settle in to watch a fav show or movie, and yank up the volume. That way, I can get "lost" in the movie, and filter everything else out. It is very therapeutic for me. ;-)

Mead, that's funny what you say about the captions! I cannot get anything out of a movie if the captions are on. I ifnd I have to concentrate so hard on the words, I lose the visual totally. It's a brain thingy, just too much. My brain doesn't want to work that hard! It's interesting to hear about ADHDers differences.

My father was a big one for this trait. This is something that we lived with for years, until we found the perfect solution:

Wireless headphones!!!

The perfect solution, until he tried talking to us while wearing the headphones with the volume turned right up! :eyebrow: :p :D

Loud t.v volume, only really bothers me, if...

A) it is very loud
B) It is not something I am interested in watching.

I think I like the volume loud, I dont mean "screaming at me" but just slightly, like maybe 1-2 ticks above the "normal" average volume of reguar t.v watching. because I can get "involved" with what I am watching, and wont get distracted with what is around me. Plus, I dont want to be distracted so, up goes the volume....

Its a sort of... "okay its back on! now shut up!" :)

If I am not watching t.v and it is normal volume, sometimes I find it distracting if I am trying to talk. Depends on what t.v show is on, and how distracting, or annoying that show is.

As for captions, I dont mind them. I am able to read the captions and still have enough time to see the "current picture" that appears with the caption.

I know some people that refuse to watch some great movies because of captions,... it is too bad, because they are missing out on some great stories.

Loud t.v volume, only really bothers me, if...

A) it is very loud
B) It is not something I am interested in watching.Me too! Then again what really irks me is if I have a channel like USA a few ticks high to pay attention, then the commercials come on blaringly loud :mad:...one of these days I intend to write to USA (and other channels) and inform them that making the adverts louder decreases my desire to buy from the sponsor and I am gonna boycott all the sponsors until they correct that volume issue!!

So there! :p

Crazy (...at least, I think it was Marco...THE 4400 HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY LOWE'S~!) :mad:

I think louder auditory stimuli minimizes distractions for me and implants a firmer auditory image in my mind, though I think it tends to overload me quickly. And I think it's the up vs. the down (variance of amplitude over time, for me anyway). Because the noises are more distracting, they tend to keep my attention a little longer, but I still eventually space out, especially if such is highly continuous (TV usually is, conversations less so, but often are).

Meds honestly help that for me HF. Now, how to deal with the screaming adverts? I try like mad to grab a remote and mute until the show comes back, but I still space off at times and miss the show :( or at least bits of it. I am trying cutting the volume back during commercials and watching closely for the show to return here of late, and I still wind up with:

THE 4400 HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY LOWE'S!!!!

:faint: ONE OF THESE DAYS I WILL WRITE THIS DOWN AND NOTIFY THEM, BEWARE!

Crazy :cool:

It's a brain thingy, just too much. My brain doesn't want to work that hard! .

Mine doesn’t work hard either,(unless it is inventing ways to not work hard) At first it seemed to be hard to read captions, and watch the show. Think I just had to adjust to it. I was stuck because I was always having to turn volume up (fight over phone,) turn volume down (third kid came and got on phone while other two were fighting about it), turn volume up (third kid on phone to long for other two kids), down,(Dad comes in with belt) up, down, up, down, up, down, nuts what was I doing? . . . . . :faint:


The volume up down thing was distracting plus you know one of the kids will have to bleed scream or other wise interrupt during the climax of the show (just the law of rearing kids) Now I can read the captions without any problems Gary is annoyed by them which is okay because we have don’t have any kids living with us (they and we lived long enough for them to grow up now they get to try watching TV over their own screaming kids ha ha ha) :D .





It's interesting to hear about ADHDers differences.

It is amazing how people with the same “condition” can be so different, I think perhaps that being different is a people thing as opposed to an ADDer thing. I think difference are way cool. World would be boring if we were all alike! ;)






As for captions, I dont mind them. I am able to read the captions and still have enough time to see the "current picture" that appears with the caption.

Wow you don’t see the captions and picture at the same time, I see both simultaneously ! Wow interesting, if I had to switch back a forth I think I would get dizzy! :eyebrow:





what really irks me is if I have a channel like USA a few ticks high to pay attention, then the commercials come on blaringly loud

See I knew you were my long lost sister :cool: . . . .this dislike runs in the family. It bothered my (now our) grandpa so bad was back in the seventies (before remotes) he ran a wire from the TV to grandmother’s TV watching chair, on the arm of her chair was a light switch. When the show was on light switch was on then when the blaring commercial came on grandma flipped the switch to off the sound on the TV was off, but picture remained on so she could see when advertisement portion was over. When the show came back on she would flip the switch and the volume would came back at previous sound level. . . . fifteen years later when remotes became popular it dawns on me not every one’s grandma had mute to her TV in 1970!. . . .he was before his time . . . . . he was used to it . . . . . . . ..he invented stuff for like a living. . . . .think he may have been ADD . . . . and annoyed by commercial volume frustration?


I believe this volume phenomenon has been pretty universal and yes some every one should point out how annoying this is! Again maybe that is why they invented the remote . . . .remote locators or homing devices (self finding remote controls and self cleaning frig) next needed ADD invention! :D

Hopefully the meds will start soon:faint:

The volume is an ongoing thing between my husband and I although he is pretty good with the remote when the screaming commercials come on :rolleyes:

Yeah, I end up getting an adrenaline check everytime commercials come on. We got a dvr from our cable company and now, I just fast forward the commercials, which is nice.

Also, do you guys hate movies where you have to blast the volume to hear what the people are saying, then, a song or something comes on at it is WAY too loud? I hate that just as much as the commercials.

Okay, one more thing....do your NT's want you to sit and just watch tv? Mine gets irritated that I constantly have to find things to do with my hands, talk, or get up and do stuff. He just doesn't get how fast the gremlin in my head moves when I have to sit completely still.:faint:

Yeah, I end up getting an adrenaline check everytime commercials come on. We got a dvr from our cable company and now, I just fast forward the commercials, which is nice.

Also, do you guys hate movies where you have to blast the volume to hear what the people are saying, then, a song or something comes on at it is WAY too loud? I hate that just as much as the commercials.

Okay, one more thing....do your NT's want you to sit and just watch tv? Mine gets irritated that I constantly have to find things to do with my hands, talk, or get up and do stuff. He just doesn't get how fast the gremlin in my head moves when I have to sit completely still.:faint:
I know what you mean, it is especially horrible when my Fiance is sleeping and I am in the bedroom watching TV trying to fall asleep and all of a sudden the volume gets really loud, then I turn it down and have to turn it back up. Drives me crazy! And yes I cant just sit down and watch TV unless I am really really interested in what is on and that is not very often. I always have to be doing something or I will get up and go do something then come back and watch.

I thought it was just me, who absolutely hated the difference in volume, between the shows and the commercials.

I drove myself bonkers, for a while, trying to figure out WHY some commercials blared, while others didn't. It used to be only the car commercials (that sounded like a WWF match), but now there are many others.

Funny...I don't remember that always being an issue...the shows and commercials were always on an 'even keel' before...so when and why that changed...

I remember this being a 'radio' commercial issue, more than a 'tv' one, at one time. And it was the car commercials on the radio, that would make me 'rabid', then, too.

I've mentally eliminated, buying all the products, that show up in commercials that blare loudly. If it would make a difference to the companies, I would tell them how freaken' aggravating it is, but I doubt they'd care.

I've now resorted to muting all commercials, (radio and tv) by the way, because I got tired of playing the 'volume' setting game.


Nova

Yay! Me too Nova! We oughtta start a petition and let those stations know this. I doubt the sponsors are the ones controlling the volume and bet they'd be mighty peeved to know some people intentionally avoid the products based on the volume problem.


Crazy :cool:

That's true, if everyone on this forum stopped buying the LOUD products, they probably would notice a change, especially if we told all our family members too.

Look at it this way, Chele...

"That'll never happen".

LMAO !!

Demand for any 'products' always outweighs the inconveniences.

Always.


Trust me on this.


Nova

whats loud porducts lol???????/ have i missed something there dorm if the porduct is good i allways get it dorm

Dorm, well, I don't know if this happens in the UK, but out here, tv shows are at a normal volume, and then, a commercial will come on extremely loud, ear-shattering. It's supposed to get our attention, and it does, in a bad way. Man, you are lucky if you can watch tv with out this. :D

Yeh the adverts (brittish for commercial :D ) are louder then the tv show over here but they dont seem that bad to me, maybe the ads are quieter in the UK then in the US, or maybe its just me. :D

Yeh the adverts (brittish for commercial :D ) are louder then the tv show over here but they dont seem that bad to me, maybe the ads are quieter in the UK then in the US, or maybe its just me. :DBoone m'dear, it would appear that things are just much louder, faster and ruder in the USA, period. Adverts here are an extremely grating experience!

Crazy :cool: (yet another ugly american LOL)

Yeah, it's true, we Americans tend to have an imposing manner with other countries, and our commercials are no different.

This is totally ADHD, on my part...
But I just now realized that Dorm lives in the UK....after all this time (0:

Okay, one more thing....do your NT's want you to sit and just watch tv? Mine gets irritated that I constantly have to find things to do with my hands, talk, or get up and do stuff. He just doesn't get how fast the gremlin in my head moves when I have to sit completely still


Don’t have an NTer traded mine in for another ADDer who can sit and stare at TV for only short time him self even then he has to be physically tired.


I always have to be doing something or I will get up and go do something then come back and watch.

Me too however the problem has always been I forget to come back for a long long time. . . . . .



But I just now realized that Dorm lives in the UK....after all this time

Sounds like some thing I would do. :p

I have done things like post an answer to a medical system question and said some thing like "I don't know about the medical system in your country" only to notice the next day after the person's puzzled response they are from Texas Tooooooooo. :o

My 2 cents.

I am adhd and i have 2 sons that are also adhd.

I prefer the tv volume as low as i can stand it. especially if it is a show i want to pay attention to. I think the lower volume makes me actively pay attention. If the volume is too loud, i don't think i work hard enough to pay attention and then my mind starts wandering all over the place and even though the volume is "in your face" loud.

I also find that the kids are very much like me. with the volume at higher levels, they start bouncing all over the place and they irritate everyone. if i force them to turn it down, they sit still and watch the tv.

for those of you with adhd kids, try it out.

I have noticed that when my hubby turns up the surround sound, my mind starts spinning and going way too fast, then, I get really irritable and he just doesn't get it. :(