Sounds that you cannot STAND!! ! grrrr!! !

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I was just thinking today how much I hate improvisational saxophones. I can't stand all that squealing. Glad I'm not the only one!

Also that irritating music performed on various kazoos and horns during the Elmo segments on Sesame street gives me an instant headache.

In general, I'm always asking my poor husband to turn down the television. Or sometimes not asking, and turning it down myself if the title screen to a movie or videogame makes me jump.

makes me bite my tongue and gives me chills..

plastic fork on a paper plate (or just touching a paper plate)
a person rubbing their hands together
pieces of construction paper rubbing together

The frequencies of sound right above the normal human hearing range cause a horrible reaction which requires me to do something to release endorphins or go completely crazy.
No, I can not hear them, but they drive me crazy none the less.
They are most commonly produced through whistling, but also by babies & children screaming/shrieking, and even untrained sopranos.
It produces a rage response, which I've learned to sublimate over the years, but also causes a horrible feeling like an itch inside my chest that I can't scratch which will only go away with the release of endorphins.
To get the endorphins I require when exposed to the offending frequencies, I generally bite my fingers, but if it goes on for long enough that's not enough so I bite my arms.
This is effective because pain causes the brain to release endorphins in response, and it's the least socially unacceptable way of getting endorphins in a hurry that I've found, even if people look at me strangely when they see me biting myself/trying to cover my ears.

However, if someone does it on purpose, I can not necessarily sublimate the rage response, so it's possible for someone to deliberately goad me into a (potentially violent towards them) meltdown by doing so.

The worst part about it is that lots of NTs whistle without even noticing they're doing it, and even people who know I have a problem with it do so without realizing it.
Sure they appologize, but the damage is done, my mood is ruined, my concentration is wrecked, and I have bite marks on my fingers and/or arms.

Ain't being an aspie grand?

*sigh*

Dog barking, silverware screeching against a metal plate, vacuum.

Am I the only one here that LOVES Bass? (Speakers)

Also, the alarm ringtone on the iPhone. I used to have that as my wake-up ringtone and every time I hear that alarm sound or something similar my heart sinks.. It doesn't heart my ears it just shocks me..

what rot that passes for country music nowadays.

There are so many sounds that drive me absolutely crazy. High pitched squeaking is the worst. I almost had a meltdown in class on Monday because we were taking a test, so everyone who got done before me left their desks, which are on hinges and squeak horribly. Every time they did it was like nails on a chalk board. I was stimming like crazy and thought I'd be sick by the time I finally got out of there. God knows how my exam went.

So many of them, but the ones that come to mind are the bodily sounds my coworker makes all day long; the squeak of my bedroom door's hinges; the fire alarm in my building and that automated voice that comes over the PA system that tells us to leave. Any shouting or raised voices, especially when I'm stressed.

corn starch between rubbing fingers

i hate the sound of cars going by

The very worst for me is propeller noise up close (i.e. especially from inside the aircraft). Take a flight with a turboprop (or a piston prop, hardly ever happens though) and I'll be mentally exhausted and brain-scrambled for the rest of the day. Turbofan planes (i.e. all modern airliners I know of) aren't nearly as bad.

Loud environments are overall very difficult for me though, whether it's machines, people or some combination producing the noise. I can basically forget having a conversation in these milieus.