Certain noises are SO ANNOYING!! !

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This is something I have struggled with for SO MANY FREAKIN YEARS. MWAHAHAEGHGGGGG RAGEQUIT.

Some noises give me a pained feeling, not actual PAIN, but painful is the best qay, er, way I can describe them.

Typing - Ironically, when OTHER people type, it is as annoying as heck. It makes me want to slam the person who is typing's head into the wall. But, if I do, it is not annoying at all. I'm tired of my mom saying "If you can listen to that screaming crap you can listen to this". It just makes want to kill myself.

Bathroom Fans - When I'm taking a shower, I feel fine, but again, when other people do it it hurts like heck. Also, usually public bathroom fans don't hurt. If other people leave bathroom fans on afterwards or before they even get in the shower which is f*****g pointless, I want to kill them.

Pianos - I used to be annoyed by pianos, not so much anymore tho. Nowadays I hate it when my brother does it because it is just loud and I'd rather hear Megadeth or The Imperials or something. I don't understand why my mom is annoyed by me playing loud as heck music (EVEN WHEN I PLAY STUFF SHE ENJOYS AS WELL LIKE ELUVEITIE, STEVIE WONDER, STRATOVARIUS, ELVIS, OR PETRA) but when my bro plays it louder she doesn't complain. It makes me want to kill everyone in my household. MUSIC HAS TO BE LOUD TO BE FREAKING GOOD MAHAHAHAHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRAGEQUIT.

Unnecessary Noises - If I'm in a car and something is rattling it is very annoying.

There is one or two I am forgetting but you get what I'm saying. Also, one thing people find strange about me is that I don't find like creek sounds and birds soothing, I find whispering of like romantic poems and raining soothing. Sometimes showers are too. Haha... Whitenoises are also very annoying under the context of using it as a soothing noise. I don't care too much about it if I'm switching TV input settings and there is whitenoise/screen because there is no input going into the TV.

All these problems make me want to ragequit life. Ya know what they say, you win some you loose some. I guess I'm smart as heck from AS, but all this crap + more non-noise related things.

people that smack their lips when they talk or a deep phlegm cough really irritate me and ironically nails on a blackboard doesn't bother me

Eating noises Eating noises Eating noises Eating noises Eating noises Eating noises Eating noises

Auuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

For me it is a very specific type of splashing water. Nothing else bothers me as much.

I find that if I concentrate on annoying noises they become very annoying indeed. If I ignore them, they cease to even register. Ignoring them does take deliberate effort at first.. the main thing is to purge any emotional attachment to it, which for me is anger, as though the noise were deliberately trying to offend me. Maybe it is, but ultimately, why should I care?

Whistling, The new guy at work does this all the time. At random and with music on the radio, he also does it with poor timing, which for me is even worse.

When people keep clearing their throat. Ooooohhhh that is soooo annoying!

Agreed on bathroom fans, I hate those things so much and chewing noises! They are so annoying.

I don't like bathroom fans either. When people forget to turn them off, it drives me nuts. Similarly, there was this one toilet that wouldn't stop making noise. I would get up in the middle of the night just to fiddle with the handle so that it would shut up.

There are other examples, of course... but yep, certain noises can really be annoying!

Eating noises, people sipping coffee, certain sounds liquids make in certain situations, fluorescent lights, etc. Not so much pain so much as they just kind of drone on and on and on.

Wolfmaster: First off, I love your name, especially with a German inflection. Secondly, I know exactly what you're going through with the music. Parents tend to dislike your music no matter what it is, and the volume will always be a problem, even when it's their music, simply because they are your parents. It's unfortunately a part of life, and until that stops being a part of life, you'll have to deal with it.

On another note, if you want some other metal-esc music: Carcass, Skeletonwitch, Death, Slayer, Anthrax, basically any 80's death/speed metal band, DevilDriver, Kataklysm, Obituary, etc.

If you listen to music that's loud by definition, it's just a nice thing to turn it down for the plebes who don't understand why the screaming chainsaws are so awesome. It'll cut down on arguing and stress if you turn it down, trust me. Anyway, rock on.

Sound of basketballs bouncing causes me to get disorientated and even dizzy. Also hate people coughing. All time favorites - drills

I hate:

1. Any kind of talking that has aggression in the tone or delivery (Dad used to call in "yorping," which is a very good word for conveying the kind of sound I mean). Some people talk like that all the time. Even right next to other people as if they weren't important.

2. The voices of most TV and radio announcers, who are too razmatazzy for my taste. They seem to talk down to their audience.

3. There's a certain kind of female voice, usually from young, middle-class girls, where they crunch and scrape their vowels somehow.....it gets on my nerves. I never heard anybody talk like that until about 1990. They usually also start every sentence with the word "so," and the pitch rises towards the end of the sentence, which again I never heard until recently.

4. Whooping and screeching. It's just too damned loud and penetrating. Mostly it's girls but some men can also offend in this way. It's OK during applause in appreciation of a really good performance by an artist, but not as a way of life.

5 A certain kind of laugh, which comes over as cruel and sadistic somehow. Always male.

6. Deep, bassy voices. The fundamental tones physically irritate my ears. I used to think it might be Nature's way of making big strong men hate each other so they would compete.

7. Roger Rabbit, and all other similar voices. I'm happy with Popeye, the Road Runner, Duckman, Rex The Runt, The Simpsons, The Fliintstones, even Bugs Bunny in reasonable doses, but anything like Roger Rabbit sounds like a crime against humanity.

8. Ringtones that sound like a Sonic The Hedgehog soundtrack. For some reason I'd rather hear the gae itself than similar cheap noises coming from a mobile phones. Also ringtones that are snippets of modern commercial music....I always think that some bastard has put Radio 1 on.

9. High-frequency sound leaking from other people's earphones, especially when I'm trying to concentrate.

10. Other people flirting with each other when I'm trying to get my work done, boys finding out for the first time that they can make girls giggle. They always get over-excited and it soon spills over into yorping (see above).

11. Loud muzak, especially from cars. Why hasn't domebody brought to justice all these louts (nearly always male) who think it's OK to broadcast their favourite hop-hop crap to the whole world at 180 decibels? They deliberately go out and buy huge amps and speakers, when a moment's thought would reveal that there's practically nowhere they can use them without pissing somebody off. I fantasize about taking them out with grenades and bullets, or just dragging them bodily out of their cars and giving them the slapping they so richly deserve.

As you can see, the very thought of annoying noise inteferes horribly with my normally peaceful, benign attitude to my fellow human beings.

I usually wake up before my alarm, thanks to the kitten. But today I was stuck on the orcelain throne when the thing went off. Ack! I was flustered. Had trouble wiping.

Other sounds that drive me nuts:

-Cathode Ray Tube (old TVs): can hear them on from 3 rooms away, sometimes next door
-Flourescent Lighting ballast: makes my teeth rattle; Magnesium and Sodium Halide lights too
-Bathroom Fans, yep: especially when they rattle a little
-Refrigerator condensers: <crickets?>
-Laptop Fan
-Velcro ripping
-Clicking fingernails: someone who snaps two fingernails off each other
-lofi Digital "sponge": there's this aural artifact on most digital recordings, slightly above the normal human hearing range (normal hearing is 20-20k Hz, mine goes up to 25k Hz, and I am affected by pitches up to 40k) ... it sounds "spongy." Ugh. Makes. Me. Angry.
-Dog Whistles: can't hear them per say, but they affect and unnerve me


Although I have to say it's not so bad as it used to be. I got into the "noise" "music" scene about 10 years ago, and it was like a "progressive exposure" sort of tolerance builder.

I used to hate that stuff, but eventually I realized that it was like a self challenge to make yourself listen to it. After a while, I figured if I could laugh my way through that, I could laugh at anything. It helped.

Everything bothers me.