Sensitivity to sounds (other than loud noises)

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When I was a teen I would often interrupt my cat during cleaning because I couldn't stand the sound...and it seemed to go on forever.

Other sounds that bother me excessively?

Mostly repetitive noises, such as:
Crickets & Birds that won't go away (especially when I am trying to sleep)
Creaky doors being opened and closed regularly
Snoring
Phones ringing (time/situation specific, but I literally will cringe)
Bass, when I cannot hear any accompanying music or audio (OMG!! !)
Certain people's voices (sporadic, and again, physical cringing occurs)

Although I will try to keep from sharing them, I do have at least one story for each one of these...lol!

I tend keep all sounds turned off when I am alone. It is rare for me to have TV or music playing in the background without someone else turning it on. I am generally much more sensitive to sound in the mornings than I am later in the day (unless I am tired). When I was a teen, I would ask (more like tell, actually) people not to speak to me and leave me alone until after I showered. I often found that the sound of the shower running helped to desensitize my hearing.

House sparrows. I hate the sound of house sparrows. They don't sing. All they do is go "chirp, chirp" nonstop. All day long in the hedges outside my windows. And zebra finches... they do this buzz, buzz sound all the time.

It sounds like you are having a mild dissociative experience. Dissociative experiences are related a psychological difficulty with handling stress--you brain pulls away, and can create feelings of not being real, or the world around you is unreal, or feelings of being cold and distant, or feeling numb and hallow. Dissociative symptoms can be an psychological issue on their own, but also can be a symptom to OCD, bipolar disorder or PTSD. I have PTSD, and sometimes when i walk into a certain kind of social situation that my brain thinks will be too stressful, it's like my soul drains right out of me and I get numb and hallow and I feel almost ghost-like. And it can take so time for me to shake myself out of it even after i remove myself from that situation.

I have issues with sports broadcast or talk radio. But it's because of what they are talking about that makes me feel intellectually drained and pulled away from my thoughts. It's just like with someone chatting endlessly about something i am not interested in. So it's not really an auditory issue but an AS social deficit issue, in that I'm too rigid and I can't tolerate other people talking about things that don't interest me.

Fluorescent lights make a soft humming sound just before they're about to break down, after that the flickering starts.

It's the humming sound that kills me, feels like having a hive hovering over you. I've walked out of classrooms because of this, concentration under this circumstances is almost impossible.

Yes, I'm sensitive to many other sounds than loud sounds.

I'm sensitive to sounds like the low electric buzz of electric appliances (fluorescent lights, light bulbs, TVs, DVD players, computers, copying machines etc.). Sounds that drive me nuts are laundry machines, dish washers, vacuum cleaners and the radio (the sound is never clear enough, there is always at least a slight sound of bad signal).

I actually like many loud sounds like sirens, explosions, breaking glass and such. I get a nice sensation from those.

Escalators when not lubricated
screeching rail tracks (I realise that everyone hates those two, but I actually panic and stick my fingers in my ears automatically - I can't pretend those sounds don't hurt).

People opening screw-top bottles
the vacuum cleaner
sheep and goat bleats
drunk female laughter
group female laughter
suitcase wheels

I forgot this one because it's been years since I've had one in the house......

Clocks and watches ticking. I have to close watches up in drawers or jewelry boxes at night so I won't hear them.

I'm sensitive to random sounds, or combinations or sounds. Someone talking on the phone while the radio or TV is on, several people talking at once, the TV being too loud...there's other things, but all that comes to mind right now is voice-related stuff.