I’m autistic with relatively high sound sensitivity. I’m wondering if another autistic person in this community used any soundproofing in an apartment that actually reduced noise coming from a busy street. There are a lot of different products out there and I don’t want to buy something that doesn’t work.
i cant be bothered to read everyone elses replys but ive found the best thing for me is some earbuds with a nice pair of over ear hearing protection. ive got some industrial over ear earmuffs with a 32 dB or so attenuation. those by themselves help a ton, but to really get the isolation ill play some brown noise or ocean waves through my earbuds. the combination of controlled noise and high attenuation of outside noise provides almost perfect sound isolation, to the point i cant hear anything in the room, even someone speaking right next to me. it helps if you can find a kind of noise thats comfortable for you, like i said for me something like brown noise or ocean waves work best. they’re soothing for me but you might prefer something else.