Is it just loud sounds?

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I don't like loud noises, but there's this certain sound that causes me to panic. Any alarm sound, specifically the alarm ringtone on the iphone, will cause me to panic.. It's a very weird feeling, and I freeze up and "die" inside. But even if the sound is very low, It really bothers me. It feels like my body is frozen and I feel like I have to faint. So whenever I hear something similar to the iphone alarm anywhere, such as TV, I freak out, even if it's very low. Is this common within AS? Sounds that bother you that aren't loud or intense?

Also, just to add, it's really JUST the iphone alarm ringtone. Unless another alarm sounds similar to it, it doesn't bother me unless it's really loud.

Don't think I'm too bothered by sounds, other than that ***** 'mosquito' ringtone!
Also loud music at a dance/club/whatever (but I think that dB level is supposed to be painful).

If there is some unusual background noise though, I tend to make some attempt to investigate the source - not knowing is just too distracting.

Hmm... I don't know because I can handle like concerts but yeah my family has an alarm on te house and I'm terrified and panic every time it goes off. I also vomit when they use a certain vaccuum cleaner. So I think in more triggered by specific noises than I am volume.

I got a sound like that too. It's a light, barely hearable sound that some machines make (computer, vacuum cleaner). I believe it is a sound a warm air makes when coming through a small gap. It sounds like some kind of yowl. It makes me think the machine is going to break soon because it is yelling so painfull. I know it is stupid - but still it makes me scared.

I have the same issue with doorbells - it feels like somebody is tasering me in the neck and goes right through my spine, into every nerve in my body, even it's a doorbell on the television.

I changed the ringtone on my phone because, even though I preferred a more traditional phone-ringing sound, the only one available was so jangly that it made me jump every time it rang and I'd get so tense and stressed out by it, I couldn't answer the phone.

When I was married a few years ago, my wife would get mad at me because if she walked into a room behind me and spoke suddenly, I would jump - she acted as though it were some personal insult, that I was jumping because she was frightening to look at, but it was just the sensory jolt of something appearing suddenly from off the radar.

I've always been a bit jumpy like that, because my sensory nervous system has it's input receptors turned up too loud, and sudden input, whether it's sound or light or touch, is very literally physically painful. That's what autism is. Life turned up too loud, so that everything is too intense.

I experience what I would describe in myself as an irrational and fear-filled panic when I hear my phone ring or beep, my doorbell, or especially a knock at the door when I'm not expecting anyone -- that one produces just horrible sinking feelings and that dying inside sensation you describe.

And similar to you with phone ringtones, I can't stand to hear insistent knocking on a door even when it's on TV! Although my panic isn't as bad for that, I still wince and freak and grab the remote to mute the sound.

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Monotonous or repetitive sounds, high-pitched sounds, and sounds so quiet I can barely perceive them all bother me. So no, it's not just loudness.

Yes, loud and also high-pitched sounds really make me stressed like alarms or when the doorbell rings...

When I forget to keep my phone on the lowest setting, it's awful. I think unexpected noises are worse than just loud.

For a while my cellpone's ringtone was "Halls of the Mountain King." It starts out at a low growl and builds from there; freaked me out every time I got a call. I don't like phones anyway, much less freak-out phones, so I found a bubblier tone.

Definitely unexpected sounds and touches make me jump and feel a surge of stress inside. My phone will go off when I get a text message and I jump if I am not expecting it or am involved in something else. My boyfriend laughs, lol. Unexpected touches though, too. My boyfriend used to get upset with me when I jumped when he touched me unexpectedly. It made me feel really bad but I just couldn't help it. But he too seemed to think it was a personal insult. We are long-distance now (which sucks), so not much opportunity for that now. I think it would probably be better now though because I would be expecting it more often. Another thing that does it for me is my blender. I love smoothies. So much. But dear god I hate using my blender because the noise feels like it is killing me. It isn't unexpected of course so I don't know exactly what it is about my blender that is so dreadful.

I have misophonia.
Certain sounds are so terrible that I want to claw out my heart, or actually destory the source of it, and I need endorphins so I bite myself.

Those sounds can drive me into a full fledged meltdown, though it's been years since that's happened.

^ Two people's voices alone can do this to me. Nancy Grace and Dolly Parton!

But yes, I have problems with sounds regardless of volume. Some days even just the furnace/air conditioning duct causing a buzz or rattle will drive me over the edge. I find something to silence them but usually another takes its place sooner or later. Neighbours and their loud cars/trucks/motorcycles that insist on revving for what seems like an eternity will drive me nutz as well. I mean like WHY do you have to go out and mess with your Harley or Triumph at 3:00 in the morning? I suppose it is reasons like those gun laws were invented...

Really, they can make you fly into an uncontrollable rage which requires expiation through violence toward oneself or others?
Yikes.

I generally have a tv on in the background to drown out outside noises.
Buffy eases the pain.

I have sounds that make me freak out as well and they can be loud or barely audible I freak out the same either way. Some of these sounds I hear almost constantly so I am always in a state of controlled freakout. I get very little sleep because of it and I often have to play music that I like on my MP3 player just to be able to get through the day or night.

Not really, last line was apparently a poor attempt at humour on my part...