It's summertime and, as is the tradition, all my neighbours' kids are outside screaming/shrieking relentlessly in a pitch that only dogs (and, as it turns out, autistics) can hear.
'Tis the season of the almighty noise-cancelling headphone.
Kids being kids, after months inside in a boring classroom where they were forced to be quiet...and still. Maybe we should join them and get our ya-ya's out...