This. My college psych professor said, “It’s only a disorder if it interferes with your daily life.”

I came here for this.

My mother once handed me the manual to a dishwasher to prove that I was loading mine “wrong.” Turns out I was doing it the way the manual recommended. She had never actually opened said manual.

Downbeats sells a “smaller fit” set that I like for their noise dampening in stores and other crowded settings, and they don’t hurt my ear canal like a lot of in-ear plugs. They’re less than $15 on Amazon.

This looks like an email my boomer dad would forward to everyone he knows.

Came here for this reply.

Thank you for this question and this reply, as I have wondered the same thing about testosterone levels and never thought of this part of the issue.

Chipmunks. I once went to a zoo in Chicago with someone who grew up in South Africa and he was more fascinated with the chipmunks running along the paths than with anything else at the zoo.