Little Sister Irritates Me

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My little sister's VOICE just irritates the heck out of me. It'll get to the point where I'll just say "[her name] please stop talking." Usually I have a good excuse (such as that I'm trying to sleep and she's not being helpful) but most of the time I have to just say "please stop talking" because her voice is just so...grating on my nerves.

I know that almost everyone, if not everyone, has at least one person who drives them crazy for no apparent reason. Mine is my little sister.

Same here. I HATE my little sister. She's 11, I'm 14.

Except she annoys me on purpose. And I get in trouble when she makes me have a meltdown. My family doesn't even try to understand me, even after my multiple diagnosises.

I'm 14, but my little sister is 8.

I guess my problem is that I was more independent at her age because... I've never liked to be dependent.

What are your meltdowns like? I'm trying to build a mental picture/range of what meltdowns are like. Mine tend to just be screaming at the person to stop it and then being angry and ticked off for an hour or two or ten.

I'm 28 and my sister's 26 and she annoys me to no end When she moved out of the house , a year and a half ago, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Now I just dread her coming over for visits unannounced.

I can't wait to move out. Then I finally won't have to deal with inadequate closet/dresser space, loud siblings, etc.

Well, then I'll have loud neighbors to contend with, but still better than your 12, 8, and 6 YO siblings playing games that involve screaming and running through the house...

^^^

Yeah, thankfully I only had to put up with one sibling.

I've got four. Soon to be five. Luckily I'm not really attached to getting 8+ hours of sleep a night.

My little sister drove me nuts when we were teenagers. We never agreed on anything and that high-pitched customer service voice that she used drove me up the wall.

My brother is very annoyed by my voice. He's normally horrible to me when he asks me to stop talking so I carry on as normal.

If you just say to your sister "just stop talking", she's isn't going to be put in a mood to want to help you.
Especially if you don't tell her why you want her to stop.

My little sister isn't going to take to "the sound of your voice irritates me" very well, I can tell you that much...

Been there. My sister used to do that to me, too. We are three years apart and she is younger. Some siblings just seem to figure out that they can provoke an autistic sibling into a meltdown, and then the autistic sibling will be blamed for it. It's a lot like trolling, except face-to-face instead of on the internet. NT/NT siblings will do it to each other too, but autistics are particularly likely to fall for it because it's just harder for us to keep our balance against sensory annoyances and in-your-face taunting.

Many parents never realize that this is what's going on--that the instigator is actually the kid who didn't explode and may even have looked like an innocent victim. And the siblings often have no clue about just how annoying they are being--they're kids and still immature and they like having that kind of power over an older sibling, who is physically more powerful.

I can't really say how you're supposed to solve that problem except to just wait until the little brats grow out of it... that, and maybe remember that they're probably being brats because they're too young and silly to know any better.