Fluorescent lights. (And disbelief.)

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What another Aspie that wears hearing aids?? I've worn them about 2 1/2 yrs; how about you? I can still hear without them except for certain frequencies where I hear blanks in the conversation. My hearing actually fluctuates from one test to the next and has gotten better on my left side since wearing HA's.

I have worn them since i was 12. I can't hear anything without them. but when i wear them, no one can tell i have a profound hearing loss. I have oversenstive hearing.. thats not related to the hearing aids.

what drives me insane are:

are humming noises when I am trying to focus...
thank GOD that I have a mac bc the windows PC in the other room is sooooo LOUD with it's CPU fan going.
white noise at night is okay...as it's monotonous and hypnotizing
flickering lights drive me UP THE WALL, but I absolutely cannot stand are over head lights....lamps on the wall or tables must be used. I have no idea about this.
the sound my speakers make when they are not receiving any feed at the time also drive me crazy too.
the hair bands of the 80's guitars strike a nerve, but yet I dig the grungey, Evanescence, Metallica, or Faction (on Sirius) genre of rock???

go ahead scrape nails on a chalkboard...doesn't bother me one bit????

I have a super-snout too! I can smell things a mile away!

my husband is the other extreme...he cannot deal with paper wrappers, bag rattling, etc.

In reference to the above posts - yes, yes, and yes! Endless - loop screen savers, white noise, and bright light (esp. flickering) will derail me. Another thing about fluorescent lights that is icky: they virtually cast no shadow. I prefer the IR end of the spectrum, and incandescent.

It's usually seeing the lights that bothers me. A full day of classes in college meant a long nap afterwards while my brain re-set. I've noticed that my mother-in-law's catoplepsy and husband's same syndrome is always corrected after a nap. Perhaps it's a brain break, eh? I can see the light waves (and hear the lights). We don't take my 3 yo out to Wal-mart or the grocery store -- if I need groceries, I wait until he's back at daycare to go b/c it is so hard on him. He gets into the store and goes berserk! I have done three full laps around WalMart at a dead run after him -- great exercise but not a way to get shopping done. Sometimes we can calm him down enough to find something that interests him to play wiht (stores with Thomas sets and available toys are great), if we can get him calm and get him to help us find things this makes the excursion worth every second of effort. I haven't checked the lighting at the day care. We do have a lot of energy saver lights at home that don't bother me, but I think I'll ask my youngest to see if he has some feedback about the lights. He just might. He hates candles.
It's frustrating that the "green" choice is the worst for anyone with sensitivity. Garbage.
Jo

Without any doubt, noises do anoy me.

I shouted at a computer user at a local library becuase he was tapping his mouse very harshly.
My mind was totally absorbed in that tapping noise, I couldn't concentrate on the internet page I was viewing I just wanted him to stop, in fact I wanted the whole library evacuated so that I could be left in my own private space.

Now I always listen to my MP3 so that I can't hear the olympic typing medalists writing out their e-mails as though they are in a race.

I'm lucky in that family/friends/workmates have just accepted that I can sense things they can't and acted accordingly. But I HATE it when any light bulbs are getting to the end of their life, as the sound and flicker becomes painful. The landlord at my old flat recognised this and used to come round and fit a new light tube if I ever bitched about the sound - he found it a useful trait for maintaining things...
Sometimes when I've gone to shops, I've had the humiliation of ending up curled on the floor with my arms over my head just trying to get everything blocked out, because the lights and air conditioning and general people-buzz are far too much. Now I wear an iPod with the volume jacked up so I can't hear _anything_.

Fluorescent lights suck big time!! ! I would rather be in the dark than have them on....the noise from them irks me, too. Also, in a quiet room I still hear electrical noises.....of various sorts...it does get grating if I focus on them, so I try not to and get by somehow.

Anyone heard of the weird sound in Taos, New Mexico that drives some people mad and anyone ever been there?

For some reason, these sensetivities were extremely bad in my childhood, such as sensitivity to loud noises, like fire drills, always had a hell of a time adapting to school bells, for some reason they just startle me to death, so I can't even be in the room when the bell goes off, I also had a fishbowl when I was young that whirred constantly and drove me to the brink of insanity, it got so bad that I turned it off after ten minutes. Also the creaking noises coming from the structure of the house that you could hear better I generally ignore them but if I allow myself time to listen to repetitive sounds such as the fan on the laptop, it tends to make me nervous.

On the visual side of things, I don't think flourescent lights bother me, which you guys will probably tell me disqualifies me from having AS. However, I really don't like bright light very well, even daylight, and I tend to have a preference for dim or even no light. I absolutely cannot stand as lightning in the middle of the night. When a thunderstorm comes I usually run into my closet (or the bathroom) and hide or I cover my face with blankets so the light cant shine through.

Never been there or heard of it, but I have heard of the Marfa lights, out in West Texas. There was an entire episode of King of the Hill that involved them.

Tim

Beeping noises bother me. I have to shut off the timer on the microwave immediately or it drives me nuts.

animeboy, there's nothing in the disagnosis criteria that says an aspie _has to_ be bothered by flourescent lights. So 'course you can have AS and not be bothered by them.

I don't have it and these sounds drive me nuts--flourescent lights, funny smells (usually they aren't even the usual "bad" smells), computers, the filtered light when we plastic our windows for winter, etc. Popping a balloon can drive me to tears b/c I startle so badly. I have to watch the person popping the balloon and it still unnerves me. I don't have AS, just ADD (my husband looks at me and says, what were you doing? five times a day). However it is possible that my youngest and my stepson both have AS. It's helpful to know we aren't alone, eh.
WJ

I've never heard fluorescent lights before. How odd. But many people have problems at seeing the oscillations in fluorescent lights.