I think my partner is now at a point where he realizes that yeah, I just have issues. He seems to be making less if not zero off hand comments. When I ask him to turn stuff down cuz it bothers me, or out headphones on for the same reason, he doesn't really get upset anymore he just does it in some kind of way.
We have this whole setup in the bedroom now because he has adhd too, but since he's different than me and doesn't really have sound sensitivities, but he does have a sense of needing to be busy or occupied with stuff? He can just watch TV and play games there than have the TV full blast right next to me in the living room.
Sometimes he'll come in and just visit me, or I'll do the same, but it's a way we've found that allows us to be in our own space and be comfortable with eachorher at the same time without real problems conflicting between us.
I think while he may not always understand why things bother me, he tries to respect those things as something that is just inherently problems for me even if I can't explain it. I feel like that all this is good progress towards his understanding of me.
