Do babies annoy you?

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They don't annoy me, but I get nervous around toddlers- I have Tourette's and I'm always scared that I'll say something obscene. Being nervous make me tic even more.

Babies themselves are not innately annoying. But they very often do very annoying things.

Babies don't bother me at all, it's toddlers that piss me off!

unless the baby has colic, babies can be easy to calm down, just feed them, or change them, or burp them, most of the time they are ok.

Toddlers can run around, they scream like crazy, and calming down is much harder to do because they have far more issues then a baby would.

Infants/toddlers and animals never annoy me. Spoiled brats, on the other hand, do.

Intensely.

One day when I was working in WHSmith, there was the hideous, sickening sound of a really new baby and I started not being bale to think straight and I had to apologise to the person I was serving. I couldn't think of the words or count the change or anything all because the stupid thing* wanted attention IMMEDIATELY and the mother wouldn't take it outside


* Sorry, I really don't like them, but I feel guilty calling it a 'stupid thing'. Well, it was stupid at the time because it sounded so horrible. I suppose the mother was worse because she selfishly kept it in the shop.

No, not the babies themselves. I quite like babies. Picking them up, carrying them around and interacting with them, watching their faces express the wonder and interest that their eyes search for in every detail.

But the baby smell. Not their poop, or anything like that. The actual smell of their skin - that scent that absolutely everybody but me seems to adore, I can't stand it. I have to breath through my mouth if I'm within five feet of a newborn. It's the strangest thing, it's like some repelent chemical odor, like I'm a fly and they're covered in pyrethrum.

The other strange thing is, I suffer no discomfort from hearing a baby crying. In fact, I don't mind it at all, it's like waves breaking on a rocky beach to me. Apparently, they use recordings of babies crying as a form of torture, as most humans can't filter it out, a primal urge to help the child overriding any logical disregarding of the input. Wouldn't work on me though, they could play screaming infants 24-7 and I'd sleep through it... Like a baby.

The sound of a cat or dog in distress and I go to pieces though. Weird.

Hopefully, if I have a child, I will wake up when he or she cries. I suppose it may be different with my own flesh and blood. Maybe my kid will cry in Aspie and I'll have the same gut reaction that NT's do.

Yes, oh god yes! I have night college classes from 6-9 mon-thrusday, along with all the other work I do. So when I want to go out to a nice restaurant on a saturday night, I shouldn't have to listen to a shreiking little kid give me a bigger headache than I have already.

Parents, think about this for a minute. It's about ten bucks an hour for some college kid to watch your baby while you go out to eat. I'm sure the middle schooler across the street would babysit for even less. And it's not like you're going out to eat for the whole night. If you have to go out to eat, is it asking too much for you to spend eight bucks for someone to watch your kid for an hour while you go eat, instead of bringing them with you to put on a d@#$ show?!

Same here although thankfully it hasn't happened for years. I'll just say 'no thanks' though. You shouldn't feel obliged to hold it if you don't want to.

Yes, I have to wear earplugs when in Tesco to protect myself from the little brats. Mind you, the mothers are far worse.

They annoy Bearsac too, but he can't wear earplugs.

I feel awful about it, but yes, infints annoy me alot. They cry and shriek and make noise and everyone says they're cute but they grab at your hair and pull at your face.

Babies are nice, but they hurt my ears. ^^U

Yes! What digusting little creatures they are. People are always shoving their babies in my lap only to have me shove the revolting little thing right back at them or adondon it on the sofa. I'm not crazy about the screaming either but todlers are worse. Everytime I go into Walmart there's at least one screaching like a bird and I want to slap it. I am totaly clueless about how to interact with kids of any age. My neice shoved her doll at me and grunted and I was like "WTF?" My neice is almost two and has never said a word, she communites by grunting. My dad yelled at me and said I had the maternail instint of a rattlesnake. So what else is new, Dad? My brother's best friend brought his baby to the house once and I was like, "Get that thing out of here!" Baby humans just aren't my thing. My grandmother says she is going to stay alive just long enough to see my children. I made up my mind when I was four that I was not going to get married, let alone have kids.