Do you hate smoke alarms?

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I do.

Good luck finding someone here who doesn't.

When I was in school yes, because somebody would always set off the fire alarm by either burning something or engage in smoke creating activities.. Once had to go outside mid shower with hair dripping wet with a towel wrapped around in freezing winter because students who dont go outside when the fire alarm goes off got in trouble.

You don't have to have AS/ASD to hate it. It's just too loud.

Mine goes off when I'm grilling steak sometimes. I feel nervous when I'm cooking because of it though I do cooking only once in a month or two. We have a legal obligation to have a smoke detector installed here.

i hate the sound they make. but i don't hate the need for them.
to me...it's weird that "normal" people need that kind of sound to let them know there's a fire in the area.
maybe instead of a shrilly alarm...how bout a computer voice on repeat. (since a lot of us on the spectrum react after something is repeated a few times...)

They come across as quite loud but at the same useful they can be very useful as well.

I just set one off. It must be time to clean the oven.

I once had a roommate who was so annoyed by the smoke alarm that he disconnected it.

I talked him into reconnecting it. Yes, they are annoying, but they could easily mean the difference between life and death if the apartment building were to catch on fire.

They are so loud I have trouble lauging afterword.

Fifteen years ago the smoke alarm above the bed in my apartment went off in the middle of the night. No fire... it went off because of smoke from the heater on the first run of the year, cooking all that accumulated dust. I kept sleeping for a while but the sound of it entered my dream and I began screaming in my sleep because I could not make it stop. Then I woke up and realized what it was.

What I really hate is the sound of phone ringers. Back in the mid 1980s I worked at a large spacetrack radar where it was so noisy inside (whirring noise from equipment fans... not raunchy noise) that the operators sometimes did not hear the phone ring. So they installed a VERY loud phone ringer (about 110-115 db SPL) right above the computer terminal that I most often used. When that thing went off, I clenched my teeth with chills running up my spine as I shouted out, "will somebody PLEASE answer that darned phone". To this very day I always keep my phone ringer shut off (and/or the phone unplugged) and instead use a homemade red light flasher for a phone ringer. If I really don't want to be bothered, I unplug the flasher too.

Only when they don't work.