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Charlotte doesn’t like loud sounds.  Whenever I get out my mixer, she puts her fingers in her ears in anticipation of me turning it on.  She flushes the toilet with her elbow so that she can plug her ears against the sound of the toilet flushing. I knew she did this in public restrooms (which often have extra loud flushes), but I didn’t realize that she did it at home too until just the other day when I saw her flushing with her elbow.

Today, when the nurse came in to give me a shot at the doctor’s office she plugged her ears and buried her face in a chair.  When I asked why she plugged her ears, she said “because I didn’t want to hear you say ouch.”