Hyersensitivty to sounds

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Oh yes, especially to very-pitched buzzing noises from electronics.

when the phone rings, i become inexplicably angry and embarrassed. same deal with similar noises like sirens.

that's about it. little noises--buzzing fluorescent lights in a classroom, gum smacking, and pencil tapping don't seem to reach me.

I hear ya on the startling sounds thing. And yeah, it was worse for me as a child, too.

One thing I learned is that ear plugs barely do anything. They're made for a general populace with normal hearing. Ours isn't.

No matter using them then or now, it blocks out only 15% of the noise; that's it.


I once went to a Broadway showing of Les Miserables with my 6th grade class. My principal assured me there were no loud noises, and that--he too-was sensitive to sound.

Folks....there are cannons in the second act, very very loud cannons.

I was clutching my ears, and crying like crazy.

Oh yeah...'til the end of the school year, I never heard the end of it.

I'd be made for it years after that too...but in different regards.

Clanging metal, bunch of shattered glass, toddlers making these high pitch sounds, indoor barking, snoring, sudden noises, too many people talking (but that depends), people laughing loud all at once, cheering, clapping, base, sirens, motorcycles, steam kettles, some high pitch sounds, and sometimes those high pitch sounds from TV sets bother me and I sometimes wish I couldn't hear that high. When I went to my grandfather's funeral, I was the only one at my grandparent's house who could hear the muted TV set and it was a torture to hear it. No one else heard the sound and didn't know what I was talking about. I don't think they believed me because they didn't know what I was talking about and they kept saying it was on mute. But my cousin knew what I was talking about because she has also heard them too and said she could hear them sometimes. They had the game on TV and had it on mute and I could still hear the sound through their talking. It was the loudest high pitch ever I heard from a TV set. I have even dealt with it at my old work when I be delivering items to guests and they have the TV on mute, they couldn't hear it . I can tell a TV is on without looking at the screen or seeing the TV set.

I was hypersensitive to high school assemblies because the band be playing, there be the cheering and clapping and then my ears be ringing and sore so I started wearing ear plugs so I wouldn't have sore arms from covering my ears. Even loud music did that so my ears would also be sore after dances. I don't know if that's normal. I just stayed out in the hall most of the time listening to the music.

I hear that high-pitched sound from TV screens, too! I know how frustrating it is when you try to tell others about it & they can't hear it. Thank goodness that those CRT screens are going the way of the dinosaur - flat panel TVs (LCD, LED & plasma screens) don't make the same sound.

Continuous loud sounds (loud music, or movies that have a loud soundtrack with constant music & sound effects) are extremely tiring to me. I will actually fall asleep during loud movies as a reaction to the constant loud sound. With loud music, I have to either wear ear plugs, or get away to a comfortable listening distance (sometimes outside the building.) When I was playing in bands, it wasn't so bad, because I was doing something (and wearing ear plugs.) But even so, I would tend to crash afterwards & just want to sleep.

Thanks for the warning! I'm hoping to go see that sometime next year so knowing there will be some loud noises will help me feel less frightened when it happens!

I used to hear a strange high pitched beeeeeeeep noise coming from our old TV. I would react by thwacking the blasted thing! After several unhappy visits from a TV repair man, he eventually realised the high pitched noise was due to one of the parts htat was about to blow!

Oh oh wait, it gets even better; you're in an echo-y auditorium; so take the already ultra-loud cannon blasts, and then add in an echo.

To this day, I think my principal was completely full of it when he said "oh they're not that loud; I'm sensitive to sound too". Sure he was...

and I'll bet he knew what Autism was beyond the Rain Man stereotype as well....

That is me if I get more than one call a day. Once is usually my SO asking a question. I am fine with this. More than once, and I'm instantly bitchy. :-/ It's really, really hard to control and I can hear it in my voice no matter how hard I try.

Accoustical problems topic

My son's music preferences in an enclosed space (car). That and the traffic noise outside.

Adults screaming. (Not kids).

Apartment fire alarms

Loud pulsing sounds.

Any sound unanticipated in general.

I have an LCD tv, but unfortunately, there's still all the sound from the CRTs in live studios and the gallery when the announcer is speaking that all comes through the audio! Horrible.

I normally have over-sensitive hearing a little bit, but when my mood disorder hits..... sometimes it's like my mind's filter's dissappear.

OMG, I could hear conversations several rooms down, and every single noise would pierce through my skull and make me nauseous. It was so horrible, I couldn't stand to have hearing like that all the time.

Edit: About high-pitched sounds, when there is suppose to be no sound, there is a high-pitch hum... I don't know where I came from, but I remember as a kid when in a cave and the guy said it was perfectly quiet when nobody talked... I still heard the hum.

Some reading you might enjoy-
BBC - Bristol - The Bristol Hum: your viewpoints

I've heard about that hum before, but a lot of people with it are tortured by it, I've gotten used to it and don't notice it during the day when lots of noises are going on.

What sort of frequency is it? Like, what does it's pitch match?

like the noise of a refrigerator running I think. Actually kinda mid to high pitch.

I could only hear it if I concentrated. Very faint. I could block it out easily though. My husband hated this sound however. I didn't. But I doubt I'd hear this out in public.