What are your most hated sensations

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The sound of people chewing.

Irish spring soap...leaves my hands in a state where feeling them rubbing against each other drives me up a wall.

A certain frequency that my boyfriend's aunt speaks in. I haven't nailed down exactly what wavelength it is, though.

Most loud noises.

Any audio coming out of a cell phone's speakerphone...the scratchier it is, the worse it gets.

Jumping from sudden loud noises like:-
-dogs barking at me when I walk past a garden gate
-cars bibbing their horns
-sirens switching on the second it passes me
-smoke alarms going off when I walk under one
-bells ringing
I hate sudden noises that make me jump. It's not my ears that hurt - it's the way my heart pumps really fast afterwards, and my mouth goes dry, and the sound of it keeps on repeating in my head for about 10-15 minutes after hearing it. I can do without the shock of loud sudden noises. It does take over my life, yes, but I can't seem to find a way to not jump at sudden noises. It'd be good if they found some sort of acupuncture what can help you not to react so harshly to any loud sudden noise.

I don't like other noises like:-
-plates clanging
-that dry scratching sound when someone is finding something in the freezer
-kids screaming (actually, kids voices all together)
-animals that make a really loud noise (other than dogs)
-motorbikes and cars with loud engines
-someone walking about in the room above me (so much agony!! !! !)
-loud hand-dryers in public toilets
-people coughing/sneezing/yawning loud/clearing their throat loud

There are some noises (most have already been mentioned above) what don't always need to be made, and are sometimes just made for the sake of a noise. Some examples:-
-some people bib their car horns for no reason except to show off with their driving (mostly teenage boys do this). Once an idiot was driving through a busy street just holding his hand over the horn constantly and thinking it's funny. There's no need for that at all
-I wish police wouldn't switch on their sirens suddenly. It's offensive to those with pace-makers, aswell as those with Autism
-people using loud hand-dryers in public toilets when there are paper towels also provided, which actually dry your hands quicker than a hand-dryer does
-people making that stupid loud noise when they yawn. There really is no need at all to do that - it is very possible, and easy, to yawn quietly.

That's just about it with me and loud noises. Sound is what I'm most sensitive to and will most likely complain about.

I'm not really sure if there are any sensations that I hate, or even mildly dislike.
There are things I don't like such as rap or country music, but I feel those stem from more ideological viewpoints than an Aspergian viewpoint.

I often adjust myself so that I feel more comfortable, such as moving the direction my laptop is facing in order to "game better". If I don't like something, I either try to fix it or try to cope with it for as long as I need to.

...am I unusual for an Aspie for not having any specific sensation dislikes? (I'm not sure cognitive/logical discord counts.)

I hate clothes that stick to the skin. If I ever wear something tight, like base-layers (?) or a t shirt and have a hoodie on that, I have to feel the same amount of pressure on my body and I hate if I feel the hoodie or the underlaying layer wrinkle. It can, if I feel unstable, send me into either a panic attack or an angry outburst.

I also have trouble tending to my teeth regularly, I don't like the feeling of the toothbrush to my teeth. And I also hate to have my mouth full of toothpaste, I feel like throwing up.

And then there's the problem with light. Some days I work for my dad at his company in a room that is painted a lighter shade of yellow with bright lights and white floors and ceiling and I always get an headache. Sometimes it feels like I'm overreacting but the light itself is just so painful. So to cope with everything that's light in life, my room is quite the opposite. Just a few months ago my mum convinced me to buy a lamp before that I only had the daylight, the computer and a small desktop lamp as light sources.

Finally, I think, is my problem with noises. This doesn't include the music that I love. When I'm tired or anxious in any way all noises around me seems to increase in volume. If someone is talking in a normal voice a few feet away from me I interpret it as a scream next to my ear. I have had to leave lots of social situations because I can't take the noise around me. I feel like such a freak that have to leave early or if my little sister is around I sometimes lash out at her to be quiet, but the real problem is with me.

- the uncontrollable dogs barking every morning for about 20-30 minutes almost non-stop.
- denim jeans.
- tight clothes.
- women's knickers (I am female and I wear boxer shorts).
- someone touching me anywhere on my body, although my feet are the ultimate worst place.
- cold water on my skin.
- ice cold drinks.
- high contrast images.

And I'm sure there are more.

I hate being run through with a foil or a dagger.

ruveyn

1. crowds
2. tags in clothing, especially in shirts
3. fluorescent lights
4. cigarette smoke
5. tight clothing
6. chalk, both touching it & hearing it on the chalkboard (this seems to be common on this thread)
7. unglazed porcelain, both touching it & hearing it scraping against itself
8. babies/small children crying/screaming
9. being hot
10. being sticky
11. the smell of boiling chicken

I remember when I watched jaws the first time. I was loving the movie until that guy scratched the chalkboard with his nails.
other things that bother me.
1. going in the shower and trying to find the perfect temperature that doesn't feel like mordor or the arctic ocean.
2. Fluorescent lights
3. cigarette smoke
4. ears popping in a car trip or a plane ride.
5. babies screaming small children screaming (I wear earplugs for this though so it isn't as bad.)
6. bad shirt textures (I wear an undershirt for this)

I have more but thankfully the only ones that really bother me are cigarette smoke and crying babies.

Sounds:
- Whispering in a quiet room
- squeaking
- motorcycles

Touch:
- having a stuffy nose
- Dry and chapped or dirty hands
- hangnails
- dirt underneath my nails
- three-quarter sleeves
- tight clothes
- Wool sweaters or any itchy clothing

- Lots of random noises at once, such as a lot of people chatting in the same room at the same time. I get too distracted making me unable focus on anything because of too many conversations at once. I can barely hear my own thoughts once that happens.

- Any noises when reading, It doesn't have to be a loud noise or much at once, but I just cannot read when I hear other confusing noises. Unless I know what is going to happen such as listening to music. I know music is going to be played, thus it doesn't take my attention. I pretty much have to put on my ear phones each time I need to read in a location with other people.

- "Beep ... Beep" when trying to sleep. I had this little *beep* noise in my room at times when I lived with my parents. It would only be in my room so I had to resident in another room nights that would happen. The weird thing is that nobody else would hear it, just me. Considering that it wouldn't be heard in any room but my bed room I concluded that it wasn't something wrong with my ear.

- Cigarette smoke. I begin to cough every time cigarette smoke blows towards me and fills my lungs. Even though I have smoked some weed in the past it's still very unpleasant. I guess it's because they're not entirely the same.

- Shirts with weird texture or something similar. I just can't handle it. I would refused to wear anything that felt weird when I was younger and I still do some to some extent.

- Certain perfumes. My brothers girlfriend got this perfume that makes me sick every time I smell it. And somehow nobody else seems to be bothered, or they just don't tell her. If I was to go around smelling that perfume all day I would either vomit and/or faint. When people wear too much perfume and it is an intense smell, I also get the same feeling and feel the need to put my mouth under my shirt for more "fresh" air.

- Awful tasting and smelling food. I can't sit at the table when someone is eating Salomon because it smells so horrifying, and it also tastes the same.

- Hugs. I hate them with strong passion. I am not a big fan of people touching me in such ways. Doesn't matter if it's a gorgeous woman.

- My backpack that contains my Macbook. My normal backpack that looks cool and is pleasant to wear is too small for my Macbook, thus I have to use a backpack that has weird spiky "objects" beneath it for it to stand properly. And what happens with this insane designer flaw that they should have figured out with just wearing it? The backpack isn't upright straight when it's on my back thus the small spikes go into my back makes it extremely uncomfortable. I really need to get a new backpack or something to hold.

- The feeling of getting tickled. I can withstand pain quite easily, but if someone would threaten me with tickling I would leg it.

- People yawning. Well done champ, now you've made me yawn also. And so the horrific cycle of everyone yawning forcing me to yawn even more begins.

- Waiting music played on my cell phone when waiting to get through somewhere. That cell phone can even make "Coldplay - Don't Panic" feel nauseating.

- Sand on a beach touching my body, maybe even sticking to it. This is such an awful experience, no words to describe it. One of the main reason I don't enjoy the beach so much unless I stay in the water the whole time.

- Sunburns. It feels so weird and itchy.

- Loud motorbikes. Who doesn't just want to slap the as*holes who ride them?

These are in no order.

- Children crying
- Scratchy clothing
- Tight clothing
- Most alarms and sirens
- Overwhelming perfume

I'm NT but there are a lot of sensations I don't like.

-boiling hot water
-the wind blowing me about
-that crunching sensation when I walk on snow
-when someone runs a head-massager down my head - it sends a shiver down my back
-needles going into me (I hate injections)

In random order

-Bright lights
-Sudden sounds
-Being with people
-Squeeks
-Munching (i hate that SOOOOO much)
-Hot weather
-Being sweaty

I have a lot more but i cant think of any right now.

SAND!! ! - Most detested by a mile!
Sandpaper and glasspaper
Flour
Touching bricks or rough stones (or worse still, the sound they make when they're knocked or rubbed together)
Having to wear tights (I think that's nylons to you Americans)
My hands being too dry
People screaming or shrieking, especially kids
Extremes of temperature - sunny days above about 25 degrees are too hot for me but I don't cope well in winter either!

Ugh.
Water on my face. AT ALL. Shower, rain, pool, whatever. OFF MY FACE.
Car breaks (I can hear them when people around me can't. Horrible piercing screech, uggh.)
People chatter, of any age group.
The idea of breathing other people's air when they walk by me.
The texture of onions.
Fluorescent lights- their sound, the light they produce, the way they always flicker even if it's so rapidly you shouldn't be able to tell.
The smell of bread, lately. (This is sad, because until about a month ago I liked the smell of bread. Suddenly I can't even go into the bread aisle.)

Sugar. I'm OK with salt, but I just can't handle having sugar on my hands.

Also, the weird buzzing sound some TVs make. On the way home from work, there's a betting shop...when I go past it, I get totally overpowered by that sound.