Sound Sensitivity

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Most people I know treated me like I'm nuts, for the way I can hear and smell. My sister calls me a "bloodhound". Loud sounds really hurt my head, and make me amazingly angry, including neighbours' music, loud talking, public drumming circles, loud celphone users. I can hear things really far away, too. It seems both extremes of low and high pitch bother me. Classical music and babies crying, they both make me wince.

Anything repetitive really bothers me, like when you can hear the base in music...I kind of count with it, and know the meter. I cant let it go. I've often thought the way to torture me in an interrogation would be something like a metronome, that's would break me!

I hate wet shoes.

Lots of the time I can hear things that almost no one else I know can hear (or at least are bothered by it). But it's kind of weird, since sometimes my hearing isn't like that (I've read that it happens to a lot of aspies: who are very sound sensitive some days but then aren't as bad other days). I like having good hearing, though, instead of being deaf. I absolutely hate the loud music at school dances, however, and really loud music playing in cars (especially rock music). I sometimes can't understand how people can endure the loud music; it's so loud! lol.

I don't mind all loud noises. I can go to a rock concert without a problem, though I need a while to adjust to the level of sound. What I can't stand however are sharp, high frequency noises, such as ambulance sirens. This is a bother when I'm outside on the streets because me covering my ears and closing my eyes makes people stare at me. Ticking clocks also irritate me.

I have the biggest problem with 'human-made' sounds. I can't bear being able to hear music, television or people talking when I'm trying to sleep. Actually, I don't like hearing music or televisions at any time unless it's something I've chosen to play. Everyone has the volume up WAY too loud - I honestly don't know how they can not be deafened at that level. Conversation's the worst if it's people constantly shrieking with laughter or making, "Woooooooo!" sounds every five seconds.

It's definitely the type of sound that bothers me, not the volume. Traffic noise, for instance, doesn't bother me at all, unless it's ridiculously loud.

I referred to myself as the Noise Nazi in the college dorms and in the various apartment buildings we lived in. The best case scenario would involve living on the top floor. At least I didn't have to put up with people constantly stomping around on their heels above me. Bass from stereo systems always bothered me. It's not to say that I don't like my music loud every now and then, but it was the sounds that carried through the building and the walls that drove me insane.

Somebody else here mentioned the sound of people eating and chewing. For the love of criminy....if I hear people slurp drinks or chew with their mouth open, it drives me CRAZY!! !! ! My kids will grow up not to be slurpers like their cousins. End of story.

Unnecessary conversations also bug me. I hate gossip.

I love music if I am in control of the volume if not the silence is much better. The sound of old (1970-early 1980) electronics is painful to me . More than one sound at a time like the phone ringing over music or to people talking about different things at the same time totally throws me and I get panic attacks trying to follow both conversations.
The sound of crying childern is enough to send my running away. I can't stand lots of sounds.

I'm _incredibly_ sound-sensitive, second only to my light sensitivity.

Unfortunately, my brother, who is VERY NT, is a teen thug who enjoys playing his rap/drum & bass music at top volume pretty much all day every day... the bass and the thumping and the DJ freestyling just grates on me to the point where I can be reduced to tears by it when I'm having a bad day.

I'll admit I'm a little better with noise than I used to be. When I was younger, I was so frightened of bus airbrakes, and they hurt my ears so badly, that I would scream and clamp my hands over my ears whenever a bus passed by. I also refused to be in a room with balloons in case one burst, another act that would make me scream and run out of the room. I would also hide under my bed with my hands over my ears whenever the weather forecast came on TV or the radio, just in case a storm was predicted.

Nowadays I cope... but thunderstorms and fireworks can still reduce me to a tearful state. I also seem to be able to hear sounds that some others can't... such as the insect-repellent frequency unit in my neighbor's back garden. And theatres and cinema movies are usually painfully loud to me.

Light and sound sensitivity have been the bane of my existance... probably the most disabling part of my AS actually.

I hate the sounds on "Deal or No Deal"

When I was a kid, I hated all loud noises. They always made me either jump up, cower in fear, yell at the person making it to stop, or run away. Back then, I didn't know what caused it. Now I know it's AS. My entire family had a different term for being overloaded by loud noises: "being a coward".

I hate noises, I have VERY sensitive hearing!! !
IT'S A CURSE!! !

I am very sensitive to sounds, especially those others seem not able to hear. I’ve had a sound no one else could hear coming from a projector so loud that I couldn’t hear anyone over it. I can hear people talking across the house when they can only hear me when yelling. I can hear when there’s something wrong with a video camera in a movie, certain tvs, lights and so on. I’ve always just had to deal with it and the migraines that tend to follow. It’s very stressful and draining.