Anon O.P.
Let me ask you this? You seem like a healthy person so no history or no dealings with schizophrenia or any other mental health disorder. You state I was 12 I assume you dealt with this long ago.
Are you bothered by their volume? i.e. sensitivity to noise and hearing things perhaps induced by sensitivity to trance(altered states, brainwaves), or clairaudience and sensitivity to improving your ears?
OR...
...Your sensitive to the noises and frequency of the sounds?
For example do you sense emanations in towers and cellphones and other electronic devices.
Do you experience noises and or voices coming from air conditioners some ACs operate on the frequency of our thoughts and to our ears can modulate in the brain as peoples voices or sounds of something.
Are you sensitive to people and experience weird things like for example you get a sensation to wave at a passing car and then it turns out it's your neighbor or some friend or a person who enjoys being greeted and may even halt the car and open their window and say something.
For example are you becoming more sensitive to electronic noises and vibrations and frequencies.
Even people who've consumed and used hallucinogenic substances have reported sensing stuff like this. Remember meditation works physically, mentally, and spiritually as well as technologically.
Even many scientists and researchers admit we don't know what kind of shit we are doing to our bodies and minds using frequencies that operate on our senses.
Is that what you mean? Maybe your irritations are not volume related but sensing the hidden realms and your sensitizing yourself to vibration, frequency, and sounds that are at a hidden spectrum from the normal people around.
Many have stated we are driving ourselves nuts with EM frequencies and other technology around.
Is this what you mean?