Sensitivity To Noise Query

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Thank you for your replies.

Do the noises make you confused, stop you thinking and not feeling right? It does with me .
Its awful. It makes me feel like a sad case. It is making me miserable. I am not able to go out by myself.

Thanks in advance.

Yeah, I cannot concentrate on anything if it is noisy, and I don't feel good while around loud noises.

[quote="mzero"Do the noises make you confused, stop you thinking and not feeling right? [/quote]

yes. try earplugs! altho that causes other problems.


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I am also sensitive to sounds.

I am generally OK with sounds, although loud sounds do hurt my ears more easily than for most people. I have two main problems. One is that I cant filter conversations, so even though my hearing is very good, unless someone speaks quite loudly I cant understand if there is background noise. The other is noise when I am trying to sleep. Even the slightest sound used to drive me up the wall (now I am not so bad) and I used to get stressed before exams - not because of the exam but because of fear of not sleeping due to the slightest sound. For years I wore ear plugs whilst sleeping, even in the quiet house I lived in, because they made me feel safe (from sound). The worst time was a year at uni living in halls of residence. I was obsessive about the noise and complained at night to people talking under my room, only to be labelled as a freak and wierdo. It got so bad that I would have almost done anything to shut them up - to the extent of taking a shotgun and shooting the lot of them (of course I never did this)

It's true that earplugs don't solve all noise problems for aspies. They do reduce volume and can cut some noises out, which is definitely helpful, for me. I almost always wear them when trying to sleep.

I'm another fan of Flents. My favorite earplugs are Flents QuietTime with noise reduction of 33.

Yes, I have always been hypersensitive to noise, although as I have gotten older it is not quite so bad (maybe my hearing has gotten worse?). There are sounds I can hear that others can't and vice versa. I have found that running a fan amplifies some noises. Earplugs don't always work but they are better than nothing.

When I was a child I was hypersensitive to the sound of public toilets flushing. It literally scared me out of my wits. I came in for a lot of verbal and sometimes physical abuse from my family because of this. When I read Dr. Grandin's explanation of why some ASD people find the noise level in public restrooms unbearable I called my mother up and read it to her. But back then I don't think my parents were that open to any suggestion that what I was experiencing was real. They were also raised in a culture that denied children's feelings as being legitimate. My mother often told me, in a matter of fact voice, how she went around with a broken bone for several days because her father did not believe it possible for someone to break a bone in the way she described (falling out of bed). It apparently never crossed anyone's mind, including the doctor she was eventually taken to, that this was neglect at best and abuse at worst, and it is clear from the way she tells it, that she herself doesn't consider it anything out of the ordinary.

That is why I think it is good that we do discuss these things, because somewhere, somehow it may save a child from needless suffering.

I'm so sensitive to some sounds, it affects my ears and MY EYES!! !! !

Some sounds make my eyes water like crazy!!

Is there any way to stop these things from annoying me? Because it's a huge problem in my family; my brother/father playing basketball/baseball or my neighbor playing soccer drives me absolutely insane, and they do it all the time. I seriously need help. Dx

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My son who is 4 is doing this, and after only a couple of weeks, he is able to go to the park and actually enjoy it. He is starting to make noises on purpose, like little babies do with rattles, just to hear what it feels like, which he never, ever did in his life. He talks in a louder voice, sings in public, and is pay more attention to his other senses, now that he is not so overwhelmed by sound.

It is so awesome- some of the things his listening therapist has taught us about:
bone conduction v.s. air conduction, his ability to hear noises at -10 decibles at certain frequencies, the different way his brain processes the sounds as they get louder and/or higher, his intolerance of noises above 20 decibles, how the vestibular system affects coordination, balance, and muscle tone, the list goes on and on.
He did a second test this week, and the range of processing problems has already decreased by something like 50%. Not sure what the long term affects will be, but right now we are all loving it.

I did Tomatis for a few months, and it was absolutely horrible. Perhaps they do something different for Aspies (I'm not diagnosed yet), but it doesn't work at all for me; just really, really annoyed me. If they do do something different for Aspies though, that might explain it.

Is it just me, or does it matter what direction it's coming from? Like say someone's having a conversation to the left or right of me, it's not so bad, I can just drown it out, but if it's right behind me then I get so weary over it and just get sick of hearing it and put on headphones or something to drown it out.

To other members of the forum: Have you always been sensitive to noise or has it been triggered off by something? If its the latter, how did you sort it out?

Thanks in advance.

Always been sensitive, ever since I can remember.