High Pitched Tones...Pleasing or Annoying?

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I don't mind high-pitched noises. But, if the noise seems to last a while, it gets annoying.

I'm female but I much prefer hearing sound of men's voices. Noise or music or singing, I gravitate to low deep layered qualities. Shrill beeping in the fastfood place, classical music w/violin-playing, or infant-wailing all make me rapidly decompensate. I need to escape the offending stimulus or keep it from continuing to invade me. Have hereditary trait of being able to move my ears & scalp muscles (looks like I'm wiggling my ears) & I do so in response to painful noise. My ears get tensely pulled closer to my head when I'm trying to protect myself from harsh sounds in environment.

I'm averse to high-pitched sound as well. My mother's voice is a little too-high pitched for me and the more upset or emotional she gets the higher the pitch gets. I can't take it. I've always said that I have a low voice because the higher my mother's voice would get, the lower I would make mine to try to compensate or calm her down. LOL.

I can't stand opera because of the high notes. When I was getting my wisdom teeth removed, they gave me a headset and I requested classical. I was already terribly anxious about getting huge teeth yanked out of my head, so when I turned the player on and it was in the middle of an operatic crescendo I almost levitated off the chair.

My biggest headache with high pitches is computers. Some make horribly high-pitched noises that others can't seem to hear but that I can't tune out.

I am very sensitive to high-pitched sounds--they hurt my ears. My sensitivity to high-pitched sounds is not so much regular voices or music--they are these extremely high-pitched sounds like sirens, screams, our fire alarm at work, fingernails on a blackboard, and sounds like those.

sounds like sirens, honking, road works, phones, babies crying or screaming all give me overload.
Some modern music overloads me especially repetative music or lyrics or whiney voices like Eminim or or whatever he is called. When he is on ar the gym and some other music I have to stop using the weights as I lose co-ordination or I have to leave the gym area.
I have to put my hands over my ears for othr sounds that dont bother other people to that exten. Even if other people do find some PA announcments at the gym too loud, I,m the only one with my hands over my ears going Lalalalalala or shouting SHUT-UP!

Even music I like can annoy me if I am concentrating and getting stressed out.

I hate lots of female opera singers as they sing too high and haugntingly.
I like male tenors but not bass voices but think this is just a preference and not to do with sensitivity.

I assume the woman with the voice in Wil and Grace that annoys one of the other posters is the same one that annoys me, but then I would think most people find her voice annoying.

I like what I call womby sounds that I can absorb mmyself into to block out other sounds.

I have worked in lots of offices. The call centres with lots of people talking constantly but with no phones ringing as its headsets are fine for me as I get absorbed into the drone of the voices and feel like it is wombyand that I am alone.

In the current office I work in there are only a few people and the phone rings and so do all our mobiles. When people are talking and I am concentrating it distracts me if I am stressed as there are not enough people talking constantly to create the womby drone.

I find high-pitched frequencies to be extremely annoying, actually. I can hear them coming from televisions and other electronics sometimes. I always hated walking under the fire alarm during fire drills in elementary school and would sometimes cover my ears to demonstrate the severity of the noise problem.