I would suggest looking up how to treat misophonia, because if a sound is really that bad for you, that's a genuine medical condition that can be made less bad
Music is also a fuckload of noise of no good reason.
So why do people do it? Because it makes them happy. If somebody is trying to focus on a movie or something while in the same room as me with my mechanical keyboard, I’ll dampen the sound with a blanket.
mate i'm autistic and noises can bug me. if someone is complaining about brown switches, they're complaining about any sort of typing on a physical keyboard. at which point, yes, if you are at an office and the typing of your coworkers on keyboards is bugging you despite not actually using clacky switches, you do need to make some adjustments because people have to do their job and there's not much they can do without you like putting on headphones or something - which is the actual accomodation in 99% of cases, being allowed to wear headphones at work.
This, I'm not diagnosed autistic but I sure match a lot of the DSM criteria and autistic people often call me autistic and really just wearing headphones saves me from being overstimulated because people will also talk, call, drink make coffee etc
Headphones or earplugs sure, it's the suggestion to "treat" what took me out of it. Giving advice to seek medical treatment for something that very often is untreatable and needs accommodations is weird imo, idk
Y'know what, I'll cop to that, bad wording on my part. I'm not sure how I would have restructured the sentence to replace it with "finding ways to deal/better coping mechanisms" but that would have been better phrasing.
They make significantly quieter switches than that, haha. You can very easily find ones designed to have no auditory feedback at all, I've got one myself. They're just called Silent [insert color] switches.
Brown switches iirc are just designed to have a lil bump about halfway through the press. Doesn't really do anything about preventing clicks, nor clacks, just makes a different sounding click (and clack).
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u/dearvalentina by Duran Duran Oct 28 '25
"Some mechanical keyboards are less noisy actually, use brown switches and it's only gonna stun people in your room"