With sensory issues do you hear bugs move?

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07 Oct 2015, 9:03 pm

Saw a roach it ran into my broken closet. I grabbed towel to put underneath the door line but I heard it fluttering DROVE ME NUTS! Then it ran out! I turned on all the lights (two fans) but I still listen for it then BOOM! saw it! tracked it down KILLED IT! Slammed my pinkie in the process DAMN IT!

Darn Aspie sensory issues! I could even hear that mosquito ringtone people have said was so quiet lol! from years ago.



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08 Oct 2015, 1:53 pm

Why yes, I can recognize a lot of insects by their smell, the sound they make, or some even by the texture of a slice of their cuticle.

Before anybody asks, yes, I am an entomologist, yes, I am female, and no, I don't find bugs creepy.

The kind of annoying sounds I hate are motorcycles revving their engines for no good reason, car alarms, police & fire sirens, hearing someone else clip their nails, and listening to people talk on their phones.



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08 Oct 2015, 5:46 pm

Fern wrote:
Why yes, I can recognize a lot of insects by their smell, the sound they make, or some even by the texture of a slice of their cuticle.

Before anybody asks, yes, I am an entomologist, yes, I am female, and no, I don't find bugs creepy.

The kind of annoying sounds I hate are motorcycles revving their engines for no good reason, car alarms, police & fire sirens, hearing someone else clip their nails, and listening to people talk on their phones.


LOL! Fern I'm of the "find them creepy part LOL!



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08 Oct 2015, 6:05 pm

I once had a cricket in my house, and the noise drove me up the wall. It bothered me probably more than everyone else in the home. Cicadas in the summer really piss me off too, they are soo loud!



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08 Oct 2015, 6:09 pm

Fern wrote:
Why yes, I can recognize a lot of insects by their smell, the sound they make, or some even by the texture of a slice of their cuticle.

Before anybody asks, yes, I am an entomologist, yes, I am female, and no, I don't find bugs creepy.

The kind of annoying sounds I hate are motorcycles revving their engines for no good reason, car alarms, police & fire sirens, hearing someone else clip their nails, and listening to people talk on their phones.

Just a question, how do you feel about centipedes? Are you totally chill around those too? Those things freak me out the most, they are just so gross.



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08 Oct 2015, 6:37 pm

Noca wrote:
Fern wrote:
Why yes, I can recognize a lot of insects by their smell, the sound they make, or some even by the texture of a slice of their cuticle.

Before anybody asks, yes, I am an entomologist, yes, I am female, and no, I don't find bugs creepy.

The kind of annoying sounds I hate are motorcycles revving their engines for no good reason, car alarms, police & fire sirens, hearing someone else clip their nails, and listening to people talk on their phones.

Just a question, how do you feel about centipedes? Are you totally chill around those too? Those things freak me out the most, they are just so gross.



In our play/rec room my daughter is currently housing:
several 4-5" millipedes (non-venomous...unlike centipedes)
9 tiny millipedes (wants to see if they grow into the bigger ones)
a possible bioluminescent millipede
two 10gal aquariums each with a different type of wood louse community
four pepper cockroaches.

She's loved bugs & gastropods since she was maybe three. The idea of keeping them to love and study began when we visited a local science center with her school. After the presentation we were looking at the cockroaches in an enclosure on the side of the room & the presenter overheard my daughter say, "awwwwww" when she saw them. Said presenter asked if she wanted to hold them and the two of them had a private lesson in cockroach anatomy & symbiosis with a particular mite. That woman doesn't know it but she may have changed a little girl's life.


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