What are your most hated sensations

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Light rain, when I can feel each individual drop it's like daggers against my skin.

Cotton wool, peaches the texture just sends shivers down my spine.

Early morning, when the sun is starting to rise.
Rubbing the palm of my hand across rough fabric, ESPECIALLY carpet. that feeling actually makes me sick.
Something sliding through my teeth.
Ring tones on people cells phones. I don't care what song or sound it is, they all annoy the crap out of me.

The worst of all is my dad's voice when he is waking me up in the morning. Ever since I've been a little kid I've hated it. I used to throw temper tantrums when he woke me up, not because I was waking up, but because of the tone of his voice.

James, my dad used this one tone of voice every now and then that made me sick, too!! ! And sometimes my husband will use the same one and I freak out. He tries really hard to remember now to do it now.

The tone is like this sickening sweet low tone..... *shivers*

Greasy hands or skin. Because of this, I also hate things like sunscreen that make your hands greasy.
Feeling sweaty or grimy.
The smell of soap on my skin. I hate it when I touch hands with someone (usually my mother) who doesn't rinse their hands properly. Then I have to go wash mine to get the smell and residue off.
Air moving over my body in bed. I have to sleep with a blanket over me.
Fleshy vegetables like tomatos.

- The feel of plastic, especially rough plastic. I've hated anything plastic since childhood. It makes my hands sweat if I touch it for too long, and they become oily and grimy. Eww.
- The sound of loud car sirens
- The sound of cars
- When there is too much dust in the air, and the stuffy smell of rooms.
- The feel of dirty hands. I compulsively wash my hands, maybe at least 10 times a day. This is also why I despise holding people's hands - they are dirty, sweaty, and have germs on them.
- Slippery materials, like silk or nylon.
- The smell of smoke and gasoline. I'm very sensitive to smells in general, but I wear perfume if it smells nice.
- The sound of chalk scratching against the chalkboard, or the screeching sound of a subway train coming to a stop.
- The smell and taste of onions. I HATE onions. They look and taste so disguistingly slimy and slippery when cooked.

*People touching me, in any way

*Any loud noise, even medium speech that hits a certain volume when certain letter sounds are made

*Strobe lights

*Bright lights

*Disco balls

*Fluorescent lights

The feeling of my skin and hair when I am dry after getting out of the ocean

Being sticky and sweaty

Chalk

Light rain

Catching a poorly-clipped finger or toe nail on anything

*Seat belts

Hot weather

Bright sunlight

I didn't think eye contact counted, but oh well.

I put * on the worst ones...

Sudden loud noise and the smell of eggs cooking.

the smell of burnt rubber
people laughing

are my top two.

1) Being sticky in any way, shape, or form... especially on my hands
2) Denim
3) Wool
4) Excess heat
5) Any higher pitched frequency
6) The sound of paper ripping or scissors cutting
7) Being touched or hugged
Bright light
9) Glass / Porcelain - all of the cups and other dishes that I use are plastic. I can make due when I have to with glass and porcelain.
10) Any sour taste
11) Any sweet taste (too sweet or rich)

In no particular order (except the first one)

Cigarette smoke. Smoke under my window and you may end up getting an old Dell server dropped on your head.

Crying babies/Screaming children. Why do parents not tell them to shut up like when i was young? Did the global IQ/EQ drop by 50 points since the 80s?

People talking on their cellphones in working areas that are supposed to be quiet. No damn respect anymore...

Cold Weather. I hate this country during the winter and love it during the summer.

Physical contact with strangers. Example: idiots on trains that touch me with their legs. I usually withdraw my leg so we do not touch but they end up taking up the "free"-space i just withdrew from and still touching me, then i end up kicking them in the leg to "mark my territory" and make them realise that i do not f--king want to be touched by strangers.

Newspaper that smell. Usually cheap quality paper and/or lots of print ink that smells. I loved it when magazines opened up on the net.

Annoying laughter. The laughter of the girlfriend to the character "Chandler" in the TV Show "Friends" is horrific.

Nails on chalkboard/cutlery on dinner plates.

Extremely bright lights. Sensitive to it and it really HURT my eyes.

High amplitude frequency sounds. Like that *bleep* sound whenever someone says f--k. I rather hear the curseword than that f--king annoying sound! Nowadays i hear less of these sounds, thank nature for tinnitus...

People crackling their knuckles. WHY do they have to to this?

Syringes. I can watch "Dexter" cut someone into pieces, but i cannot watch him inject someone with tranquillizer or see someone get a flu-shot on "House MD".

Being in a large crowd. My personal space feels invaded.

People talking in cinemas (phone or with eachother). I just want to grab an automatic rifle and shut them up... Again, a question of zero respect.

People trying to be social with me and trying chitchatting about the weather or sports. Either talk science or something deep or shut the f--k up.

People singing in false voices. I know one artist that everyone thought sounded ok, but i heard a clear false tone in her voice.

Being near drunk people who "play" drunk and think they can act in any way they want because they have ingested alcohol. Immature twerps.

People putting on fake smiles just to be polite. I was at this interview once for a business programming...thing and they guy was putting on an obvious fake smile. I almost wanted to jump out of the window (3'rd floor) to escape the situation and was SO relieved when the interview was over (fortunately it only took 30 minutes...).

car horns
orange juice pulp
tapioca pudding
dry hands
small children whining
phones ringing
wet jeans
wool
glare on an overcast day
tight pants
rings (jewelry)

Babies crying, dogs barking and cigarette smoke definitely for me, too.

noise especially when i sleep, heat.

The sound of heeled shoes drives me rather batty, as does the tone/decibel deaf sound booth personnel. Knowing that the music is well too loud, and having no authority to do a thing about it, I do my best to leave the area, but it still rattles me.

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Also the &#&@ phone ringing, followed by the lack of a proper message left after the [DFSR!] tone. If a parrot could parrot it, then an automated system should be able to leave a proper message! Did someone forget their guide to answering machine etiquette? Leave a proper name/company, return number, hours of calling, reason of call, thought priority of call, and what makes the call so ^#)? important. It is also important to leave the message, AFTER the tone. AGHHH!
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Additional, Toddlers and babies crying for no readily apparent reason/attention, microphone feedback does hypersensitive ears no good, and the sound of someone breathing in the midst of lyrical music. Hearing that breath is annoying, and I am sure there are better breathing techniques, or that the studio editing works would be able to erase it.

The sensation when my Department of Semi-Correct English Enthusiast-Grammar Nazi-Yelling Old Man-League of Anti Leet-Chatspeak-Unnecessarily Abbreviating of Anything not tied down and on fire-Common Sense is rattled awake irks me so. I have a few example quotes from a mixture of a few of the departments.

'After having reviewed the lyrics, I am sure that even a sailor would object to the amount of curse words found.'

'Excuse me, after observing your driving patterns, I suspect that, either you learned from Video Games, or you seriously need to review your drivers handbook.'

'Good Sir or Madam, I can understand if you happened to learn English from the internet, but you try reading back that post aloud, without looking or sounding like an imbecile or idiot.'

'Common Sense Department, do I have to beat it into you?'

'Please be sure that your outerwear is in the 'Fully covering' position. Nobody but your significant other needs to see that.'

'To the driver with the electronic device in hand. Our roadways could be safer, if you were to either not travel the roads and walk, or if you were to simply terminate the call till later.'

'Have you not disciplined thine child? If children like these are our future, ye shall find me on the first colony ship to Mars. Don't bring your child.'

'There exists a device called a pacifier. It is designed to pacify a young one of the age of your child. Do us all a favor and get one.'

Most of these are thought, but some I do feel strong urges to say. Replace say with shout.

I hate the smell of used cat litter and dirty diapers. Hugs piss me off big time except if they are given to me by a kid. I hate swear words especially the f-word.

- dry hands (like pruney, waterlogged dry) while touching paper.

- dry feet (waterlogged, just-out-of-the-pool dry) on smooth, dry cement.

- the obvious, eye contact.

- seeing people making physical contact in public. the worst is when you see someone giving someone else a neck rub. just outright, out in the open. WTF. i avert my eyes immediately and want to gag or hide. oh, and why do they ALWAYS have to make obscene noises while it's going on?

- the sound of laughter (all laughter sounds like being laughed at)

- most smiles, but especially fake smiles (i see it as nothing more than a hostile baring of teeth to assert one's dominance over another. vestigial animal behaviour.)

- any insect buzzing near my ear. i'll get involuntary spasms in my side.

- the smell of popcorn. it reminds me of theatres, which reminds me of people, which reminds me of people eating.

- someone singing, if it's not recorded or without accompaniment

- seeing someone else write numbers in their own penmanship. it brings back bad memories of the nuns in grade school trying to explain math equations to me, which i couldn't grasp because it was someone else trying to teach me, with the way their brain worked.

- when females talk with really sibilant s's

- wet mouth noises, drinking, eating, chewing, etc

- the smell of other people's food

- too-tight clothing on my upper body (i have recurring nightmares i'm stuck inside a non-stretch shirt that's pulled over my head and i have to ask someone to pull it off for me)

- being stared at. i'm stuck in the capital of staring, rural illinois. being from chicago, this makes me nuts.

- hearing my name said in public (Liz). it's just embarrassing.

- hearing my whole name spoken (Elizabeth). i automatically feel like i'm in trouble.

- walking in a public place where there is a radio on, and it's not tuned or equalized properly. my inner sound tech wants to go over and FIX IT. how can you not hear that? same thing in people's caaars.

- products which aren't fruit or food, smelling like fruit or food. with the exception of strawberry shampoo or coconut items. give me a nice cologne smell, thanks. i have to buy men's products mostly.

- fargoey, midwestern accents.

- pearl onions. eyeball, anyone?

- unwarranted bumping, touching, etc.

- small talk. unless it's something scientific, mentioning the weather will get you automatically pegged as desperate and smallminded.

i could go on and on.