puffin, that is the exact same thing that has occurred to me.

Just the level of noise input alone is phenomenally different.

Compared to my childhood (which was chaotic since I lived in a highly dysfunctional home), my daughter's life is a veritable CIRCUS of chaos from day to day. It must have seemed almost random to her until she was 10 or 11.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.