Today at just a perfectly normal evening meal with my family (just me, partner, two kids) I started finding myself struggling to deal with the cutlery and crockery sounds. It happens to me every now and then.

It's well depicted in this clip from Love and Mercy, where at a dinner with lots of people, the sounds grow ever louder and Brian Wilson is increasingly disturbed and upset by it, until he leaps up with his hands over his ears and shouts at them all to stop: youtu.be/KQX8ooOWFDY

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