Does anyone else hate Firetruck sirens?

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I once ate some magical mushrooms. I was in a nature-ly place but I could still hear all the industrious sounds. I kept paying attention to it more than normal. I realized that no matter where you go (unless you had a car to go out farther), you could pretty much always hear the sound of the rest of civilization. I started to trip out on how when you live in a city it is impossible to trully be alone. I had an anxiety attack while I was on the mushrooms that day.

I kind of like hearing a siren, it's exciting. I don't like what it represents, that someone is in trouble and needs help, but I like the fact that it means someone is going to help. I live out in the country so I don't really hear them that often. If I did I would probably hate them, especially if it woke me up at night.

I have a form of sensory processing disorder where sounds can easily overload my senses.

Normally I don't like many loud noises, especially loud music and loud voices, sometimes loud dogs.

For some strange reason I like the sound of fire engine sirens, even if they hurt my ears. But usually they are not close enough the get to reach the painful level.

I have a similar thing with the noise of running engines. I like the sound of a lot of engines, but when the noise is intense it hurts.

Loud music, especially bass, and screaming or hollering people are more annoying sounding, and they also seem to hurt my ears easier and give me more terrible processing overloads. I don't understand why.

Any loud vehicle siren, car horns tooting, and really loud motorbikes all upset me when I'm out.

I don't mind so much when a fire engine/police car/ambulance is coming along with it's siren already on, although it is still loud and makes my ears squeak, but it is bearable. What I can't bear is when one is coming along with it's blue lights flashing, because it means the siren could sound any minute, and I absolutely loathe that shocking feeling of jumping out of your skin, even if I'm aware that a sudden loud sound may occur, I still get really jumpy. I always really quickly get my phone out and pretend to be ''answering'' it, and putting my finger in my other ear (the ear nearest to the siren vehicle), so that I can cover my ears discreetly without it looking obvious. I know some other Aspies criticise me for worrying of what others think, but I really don't like looking Autistic in public, I like to hide it as much as I can.

Car horns upset me because it is unpredictable. If somebody who knows me bibs their car horn as they pass, it makes me uncomfortably jump but it's nice to be acknowledged, so I give a friendly wave. But if somebody just bibs their car horn for no reason, that's what annoys me more. Often I've been walking along a very quiet street with no people or cars about, and one car comes along and suddenly bibs it's horn really unnecessarily loud, and I look up at the car to see if I know the people inside but they're not waving or even looking at me, and I just walk along feeling angry and wondering why they would just make such a din when not necessary. Perhaps seeing people jump out of their skins is entertaining for them....until it happens to them.

I hate those loud motorbikes. I have a friend who says the louder the motorbike the more she loves it. I disagree. Yes, the motorbike may look nice, but I really dislike the noise. If I'm near somebody revving a really loud motorbike, I get all nervy and even frightened of the noise, and kind of stand there kind of screwing my face up in discomfort.

Yes. But I don't get headaches.

"What I can't bear is when one is coming along with it's blue lights flashing, because it means the siren could sound any minute, and I absolutely loathe that shocking feeling of jumping out of your skin, even if I'm aware that a sudden loud sound may occur, I still get really jumpy."

I mostly freeze up when that happens, if a car radio is turned on loudly, it hurts my head, I can't think properly and feel hot and flustered for a while afterwards.

I hate them so much. Even the ones off in the distance drive me insane. whats funny though is i love looking that the flashing multicolor lights.

i hate all sirens and alarms, it makes my head spin

I'm currently listening to the emergency warning system's monthly test. Like all sirens I hate it, and am sitting here with my ears plugged for the next 5 minutes. This system is designed to be heard through walls, over top of other noises in the house. Unlike other sirens, this one comes from multiple directions, and changes tones. It is very good for 5 minutes of sensory overload.