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01 Apr 2012, 2:11 pm

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Not really. Nails on a blackboard hurt, and I think 90% of the kids and teachers in my grade school hated that one (the other 10% were the ones who did it just to see other people cringe).
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Excuse me? I am one of 10% who doesn't mind it, but I don't do, partly because I have short nails and wouldn't never grow them long. :lol:

Oh, and no noises actually hurt, that's the thing, even noises that hurt NTs ears don't hurt mine. Some just make me cringe. I am not sure if they count as sensory issues in that case, if they don't hurt.



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02 Apr 2012, 8:11 pm

Hmmm... now that I think about it, I'm completely immune to "nails on a blackboard" (and in fact, used to do it all the time out of scientific fascination with the effect others claimed it to have, and always kind of viewed it as a superstition or mass public hysteria), but the 15.75khz sound from an old or cheap CRT tv used to drive me insane... especially when housemates claimed it didn't exist, or that it wasn't loud (even though I could prove with 100% accuracy that I could hear it *outside* -- through *closed* windows (note: they were 1960s/1970s-type large Florida crank-out windows, not impact-resistant double-glazed windows like everyone has *now*.


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02 Apr 2012, 10:12 pm

dr01dguy wrote:
but the 15.75khz sound from an old or cheap CRT tv used to drive me insane... especially when housemates claimed it didn't exist, or that it wasn't loud (even though I could prove with 100% accuracy that I could hear it *outside* -- through *closed* windows (note: they were 1960s/1970s-type large Florida crank-out windows, not impact-resistant double-glazed windows like everyone has *now*.


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02 Apr 2012, 10:48 pm

I'm in roughly the same situation. Sudden loud noises will get me. Continuous high pitched noises bother and distract me but never to the point of meltdown or anything. Scraping sounds like nails on a chalkboard really bother me. Being in a room with a bunch of people talking all at once can start to overwhelm me after a while.



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03 Apr 2012, 12:44 am

The noises that mainly bother me are the high pitched electrical hum noises from lamps, TVs, etc. Sudden loud noises, like dropped items, can throw me off for a while.


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03 Apr 2012, 2:40 am

dr01dguy wrote:
but the 15.75khz sound from an old or cheap CRT tv used to drive me insane... especially when housemates claimed it didn't exist,

Oh yeah, I used to hate CRT televisions. Unfortunately I have tinnitus that sounds quite similar. One time at work an amplifier developed a fault and started pumping out about 17kHz at full volume. Everyone else looked at me like I was crazy when I backed away rapidly shouting 'turn it off'. It only got turned off when someone noticed the amp was smoking.


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