High Sensitivity to sounds

You have my sympathy Homebird. In the area where I live, it seems to be an open secret that when the local drug dealers are doing their drops, they will use fireworks as a way of alerting their 'customers' that they are going to be in the area. For years I had often wondered why it was that I frequently heard loud fireworks being let off at all hours.

Although I greatly enjoy watching fireworks from the comfort of my own home, the sound of those deafeningly loud rockets always makes me feel on edge. I often get caught out by the ones that make a whistling sound, as some of them conclude with an almighty bang (or multiple bangs), whereas some just fizzle out without any bangs.

When I was a child, the only time I heard fireworks was on 5th November. Although I know the capital cities around the world would have firework displays on New Years Eve, I don't remember them happening anywhere else, or at least not until the Millennium.

I'm amazed that people can afford to buy them. The most basic box of fireworks certainly weren't cheap back in the '70s and '80s when I was a child, so I dread to think how much a basic box of fireworks would cost now.

You have my sympathy Homebird. In the area where I live, it seems to be an open secret that when the local drug dealers are doing their drops, they will use fireworks as a way of alerting their 'customers' that they are going to be in the area. For years I had often wondered why it was that I frequently heard loud fireworks being let off at all hours.

Although I greatly enjoy watching fireworks from the comfort of my own home, the sound of those deafeningly loud rockets always makes me feel on edge. I often get caught out by the ones that make a whistling sound, as some of them conclude with an almighty bang (or multiple bangs), whereas some just fizzle out without any bangs.

When I was a child, the only time I heard fireworks was on 5th November. Although I know the capital cities around the world would have firework displays on New Years Eve, I don't remember them happening anywhere else, or at least not until the Millennium.

I'm amazed that people can afford to buy them. The most basic box of fireworks certainly weren't cheap back in the '70s and '80s when I was a child, so I dread to think how much a basic box of fireworks would cost now.