Noise. Is anyone else really bothered by it?

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I'm extremely sensitive to noise, despite having a hearing loss. I was more sensitive before my hearing loss, but I can still hear all sorts of random noises that most can't. I rarely eat with other people, because I can always hear them chewing, unless we're in a crowded restaurant.

If I need silence, I need silence. Noise is one of the few things that can send me from a good mood into a bad mood in very short order.

I had a major problem with noise when I was 2-6 years old. My parents couldn't take me to restaurants or noisy public places without me crying. I seemed to outgrow that sensitivity though I still get irritated by noises when I have to concentrate. I can't stand the sound of high-heels on a hard floor. Throat clearing is another pet peeve I have. Interestingly I like music that tends toward being dissonant and emotionally unsettling and I can listen to it turned up very loud.

That is how I am.

I get frustrated when theres noise while I'm watching a movie or trying to sleep. Vacuum , TV in another room too loud (I never have my TV very high volume because I have really good hearing). Snoring is torture to me any time of the day.

I dislike the sound of throat clearing, too. When I lived in a rooming house with other students, there was a guy in the room next to mine, who constantly cleared his throat while studying. It nearly drove me crazy.

That's interesting point any one here like music created from a glass armonica (Like the real version of dance of the sugar plum fairies by Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich? I would say out of songs it oddly clear. That would because of it dissonance and spookiness. I actually like music like that too. As weird as it sound horror core rap to a certain exist because of similar tones. ICP has some cool stuff

The humming from the lights in the laundry room at my apartment drives me nuts. I avoid it when I can. Sometimes other noises bother me but sometimes I'm ok. Lights are much harder to deal with than noise for me.

I'm bothered by type of noise rather than volume of noise. Some noises - storms, wind, traffic, trains - can be quite loud and not bother me at all. I live near a railway line and I like the sound of the trains. Others - TVs, music, being able to hear people talking if I'm trying to sleep or otherwise be quiet - can drive me to tears of anger even if I can only just hear them.

I am very sensitive to low-frequency noise in general and have a terrible job trying to block it out sometimes if it's a 'bad' kind.

Makes me feel better to know that other people have issues with noise like I do. I've felt like such a freak over it. My husband can't understand why I get so irritated and I can't explain it to him.
I can't understand how NTs can have noise all around them and not notice at thing. For that matter, it occurs to me that most NTs are oblivious to many of the details that I notice. And to me I interpret that as ignorance. Even though I know it doesn't really make someone ignorant. I just get frustrated with people who can't or won't notice the details. The details are important.

i agree. my family is terrible frustrated with me over my requirements of having the doors shut and tv turned low at all times.

anyone else hate the sound of clocks?
i mean, think about it: *tick* another second of your life gone *tick* another second of your life gone *tick, tick, tick, tick...*

Some clocks bother me.

A question about watching TV. I know a lot of people on the spectrum watch TV and memorize a lot of episodes of different shows. I have a few I like but it seems to get the volume of voices comfortable means the music will be too loud. If I set it so the music parts will be comfortable then I can't hear the voices. It seems most shows have a least some music. Any thoughts?

yep! the sound effects as well.
they always drown out dialogue. that or the commercials scare the bajeebers out of you cause they're 30 decibels higher.

I have that problem with movies. The volume of explosions/loud noises vs voices in some movies is just so wrong that I have to either put subtitles or have explosions that are very loud (very loud for me = normal volume for most people). My TV has preset thing in the equalizer to hear voices over other sounds so that helps. (It just lowers 100HZ and 300HZ and brings up 1,3 and 10 HZ) But I haven't had problems yet with Blu Rays and more recent movie.

NT people to me have their whole life on high volume. Sounds can be at a level that's bordering on painful for me, and they seem to consider them perfectly normal. For them to be able to notice a scent, it has to be strong enough to have me choking.

But then I suppose that they would say I'm oblivious to 'social details'. "How could you not see what was going on there?" "How could you not tell how she was feeling?" What is blindingly obvious to them doesn't register with me: my mental radar simply isn't tuned to pick up things like that.

I am, depending on the noise. I usually like to have some sort of noises around me(heck, i usually sleep with the tv on and all), but a lot of noises at once, really loud sudden noises i'm not expecting, or high pitched noise bothers me. I jump back from hearing a sudden loud noise sometimes if i'm stressed, but a lot of the time my mind just goes blank for a few seconds and i stare ahead and get my thoughts together and don't show much of a reaction (at work the CSMs have these really loud beepy things that go off when they need to do something... and they must have either noticed my reactions to them or heard me complain, but some have started to realize that certain noises can make me uncomfortable and they turn them down when they come back in electronics near me ). I have to deal with random loud noises a lot a work, so i can tolerate most of it, though. I've noticed that i often automatically react by tensing up when i anticipate a loud noise, though. Like when something is about to fall, or i see something about to hit something else.. I get all tensed up before it even happens. Sometimes sudden noise is about like getting punched in the face, really. Really high-pitched noises used to make my eyes water as a kid(i dreaded that triangle instrument in music class!), but these days they usually just annoy me. I think i've become de-sensitized through so much noise exposure, lol.. I do jam my fingers into my ears to block things out sometimes, though. I think that having a bunch of different loud noises coming at me at once is the only thing that can really cause me to overreact, especially if some of that noise is from peoples' raised voices or more than one person talking to me at once. It's just too much, and sometimes i've just started uncontrollably yelling for them to stop. When i'm already frustrated about something i'm more likely to overreact, too. With over things, a lot of the time i just kind of zone out or disconnect. When there's a lot of noise and stuff going on around me i seem to get more withdrawn and tend to experience that kind of "depersonalization" or "derealization" type of thing. Like i'm sensing the things going on around me, but feel removed from it so as to keep it blocked from overloading me. Anyone else get something like that? I think what might bother me about noise even more than it being uncomfortable and overstimulating is the fact that noises always seem to drown out other noises, making it really hard to hear a certain thing when there is something of similar volume competing with it and drowning most of it out so that i can't focus in on any of it. At work i can usually hear people talk okay, because the crowd is usually widely distrubuted throughout the store... But when a crowd forms where i am or there are people going by with carts it's hard to hear people talk. I think that in high school the fact that i couldn't hear most of what was said in the lunchroom made it almost as socially awkward for me as the fact that it was one of the most un-structured social environments ever. So, yeah, some noise issues... But, on the other hand, i love certain noisey environments, like amusement parks and rollercoasters. I even find the loud scream-y reactions of others on amusement park rides kind of enjoyable. So, i guess i kind of contradict myself in a lot of ways, but that's still the way it is.

screaming children in a fine dining establishment

the other night, I had just finished work.It was 10 at night and I was having dinner at the Keg in Red Deer.I paid 35 dollars for that meal. Despite the fact that I was paying that money to have a quiet dinner free of screaming children in a nice quiet setting, a couple decides to bring their toddler with them to dinner at 10 oclock at NIGHT.The kid was screaming and shrieking on and off.I was tired and the shrieking and screaming annoyed the heck out of me.The couple should have just left the restaraunt.If people there wanted to listen to screaming children, they would have went to McDonalds and paid 10 dollars for their meal instead of 35 to 40 dollars a person.