"I have never been good at silence. When it's quiet, my brain fills the gap with racing thoughts. It wasn't until lockdown, when I was 27, that I was diagnosed with ADHD and autism, but looking back it made sense: the fidgety teenage nights, the late-night TV marathons, the constant need for background noise. As a kid, my insomnia was brutal. When I couldn't sleep, all I wanted to do was get up and do something,"
"It's hard to explain to anyone who hasn't tried to fall asleep with a film playing, but Ratatouille has a remarkably consistent soundscape. It's not about the volume obviously you can set that as loud or quiet as you want but the uniformity. There are no big explosions, no sudden jump scares; just the steady hum of kitchens, the occasional pan clatter. From that night on, I stopped swapping films Ratatouille became my nightly ritual."
A person experiences intense difficulty with silence, racing thoughts, and longstanding insomnia, later diagnosed with ADHD and autism at age 27. Television became a practical bedtime white noise in an unstable childhood home and a shared bedroom. The person developed routines of rewatching films nightly, with titles like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and The Breakfast Club. At about 15 or 16, Ratatouille was introduced and selected as a permanent sleep film for its consistent, non-jarring soundscape: steady kitchen hums and occasional pan clatters. Ratatouille evolved into an unwavering nightly ritual that aids sleep when other films failed.
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