Well i'd just like to share this story with you guys cause no one at home seems to understand the excrusiating pain i was in.
Well it was in my last hour at school, and so i was doing work and my teacher had this sound box. To demonstrate how many decibles a human can hear, so i was like "well im curious to see what i can hear" I could hear the lowest pitches. But when he turned up the dial, UGGG!!! IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!! I was almost brought to tears, the grainy..UGG FREAKEN SOUND! So that put me into totally overload. And mom didnt understand why i was so irritable at the sound of her grainy voice. I even had to take off my long sleeve shirt because i could no longer stand the loose fabric rubbing it, now everytime i even thihk about, it makes my arms feel funny.
so yeah....just throwing that out there.
I can really understand what you are talking about. For me, the last few years I've noticed that sound has really affected me more and more. The people at the church that I belong to just tell me that my ears are "too sensitive." What they don't understand is that I can "feel" the music, and when it gets too loud or there is too much stimulation going on in my life, I end up pretty much rolled up into a ball. Fortunately, the person who diagnosed my asperger's goes to church there, and I have found out that she is the best person to sit by during these times. I don't have to tell her anything - I just ask her if I can sit by her. I am really thankful to have her as a friend.
Interesting -- for me it's metallic sounds. I've had to leave restaurants because of people who clatter their silverware or who grind the blade of the knife against the plate when they cut their food. I can't stand it when people drag the fork from between their teeth when they eat.
As far as sound goes, I have never really been pained by it, but am more sensetive than most. I can hear the hum of flurescent light bulbs and without hearing the actual sounds coming from a tv or seeing it, i can tell it is on. It is like a high-pitched, thing, it is hard to describe. When I ask peopel if they can hear it, they ussually say no. I dont necesarily also mind louder music as long as it is something like orchestra music. This is part of the reason that I like playing the junior high honor orchestra in my region so much. I have more sensory problems when it comes to eating. I am a very picky eater and cant eat certain foods. ALthough I dont have an official dx, this is one of the main reasons that I might get one in teh future, to try to helpo this.
I can hear the electronic whine from a muted television from across the house, extremely high pitched security system electronics, dog whistles and other, supposedly unhearable, sounds. the nurse at my school administered a hearing test to me at 5db, which is quieter than background noise, (i had told her that my hearing was very good) and i heard every pitch without fail, she was rather surprised. i'd say that alarm systems bother me the most but if i have a migraine, TVs are the worst.
I've always hated unclear voices and chewing noises, and the sound a wet sneaker makes against the floor, which makes me teeth itch. (Don't ask how. It's just unleasant to my teeth)
I get that teeth itching including a weak feeling when walking on snow or squashing cotton wool balls together, someone else doing it not me as I hate it, these sounds send shivers down my spine too.
There are many other sounds which annoy me like softly spoken voices, smaking of lips or tongue whilst talking, these sounds make my ears and eyes feel weak and I have to scruntch them to make them feel better. Another sound that bugs me is the sound of buttons being pressed on a mobile phone and it's worse when there is extra sound to it, I especially hate the sound of the squelching one which sounds like someone rubbing there eyes having air bubbles trapped under their eye lids.
The worst for me is when someone's phone rings, even mine and then I begin to block my ears or bang my head in bad cases.
That's why I have now put my phone to be on vibrate mode all the time but then when my phone vibrates on a wooden table, I become a mental looney all over again.
What's more overloading for me than sound is when someone comes up to you and starts giving you gargantuan hugs; that makes me want to throw a tantrum, which I always try not to.
As far as sound goes, I have never really been pained by it, but am more sensetive than most. I can hear the hum of flurescent light bulbs and without hearing the actual sounds coming from a tv or seeing it, i can tell it is on. It is like a high-pitched, thing, it is hard to describe.
what you are describing is the vibration from the screen.it happens with old style CRT VDUs as well.newer plasma or LCD screens wont(read:shouldnt) make it.
flouresent lights cause me a headache,however have you seen those mirror covers for them?they seem to cancel out the headache from the light itself,but that humming noise is ever present...part of the reason i hate hospitals.
I've always hated unclear voices and chewing noises, and the sound a wet sneaker makes against the floor, which makes me teeth itch. (Don't ask how. It's just unleasant to my teeth)
I do love loud music played live or from a speaker (not through headphones), and absolutely LOVE the tremors you feel through the ground as you listen to the music. This is also why I like African drums.
It used to be a broom sweeping against concrete/asphalt for me, I just couldn't stand that noise! Nobody else had a problem with it, though, and I found that to be odd. Why was I the only one bothered by it?
People who yell at me leaves my ears ringing for hours. I can be in the basement and hear my dad come home from work, pull in the driveway get out of the car and open the two doors to get into the house, and it is very far away from the door. I can also hear water running through the pipes in the walls when no one else can.
Saying that, my parents don't understand how frustrating loud noises are for me. Hearing cupboards close loudly or my dad clearing his throat constantly just makes my ears hurt. I love music and always listen in earbuds, and I don't like rock music in earbuds. I like a lot of mellowed quiet music and my ears never hurt afterwards. That's most likely why I enjoy music so much...I can hear things others can't in the music.
People who yell at me leaves my ears ringing for hours. I can be in the basement and hear my dad come home from work, pull in the driveway get out of the car and open the two doors to get into the house, and it is very far away from the door. I can also hear water running through the pipes in the walls when no one else can.
Saying that, my parents don't understand how frustrating loud noises are for me. Hearing cupboards close loudly or my dad clearing his throat constantly just makes my ears hurt. I love music and always listen in earbuds, and I don't like rock music in earbuds. I like a lot of mellowed quiet music and my ears never hurt afterwards. That's most likely why I enjoy music so much...I can hear things others can't in the music.
Hardly anybody I know really understands how frustrating I find loud noises, and I am another one who hates throat clearing. I realise we all have to do it sometimes, but some people just keep doing it repeatedly and I wish they would go and drink some water or have a cough lolly or something.
I was muttering and grumbling the other day about this woman who kept doing it and another lady said "now, now, practice your deep breathing". Eventually I said "sorry but I have to leave the room now".
It's hard when it's somebody nice doing something annoying because I don't feel I can say anything to them to stop it.
sunlight makes me sneeze...
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For my son it is the fire drill alarm at school. His OT gave him a set of earphones that block out most the noise and it helps.
Wow how I hate the fire alarm at work. They always tell you that you sould "not panic" when a fire alarm goes off but what else can you do when they made it SO LOUD and piercing it feels like an ice pick through your skull. I now know what it means to be unable to "hear yourself think" cuz when that alarm is screaming, I can't think. They throw in flashing white strobe lights with that. grrrr. I pray they never find out there is no speaker in the computer room cuz that is where I seek refuge when nobody can get the alarm shut off.
Today, a lady from my team was telling me I probably did a case wrongly. That wasn't so much the problem - she kept clicking her pen really loudly and it was driving me insane! Earlier in the year, the guy next to me kept clicking his pen too.
Eventually, I passed him a note asking him to please stop it. He said it was "therapeutic" for him and if I didn't like it I should get "better headphones". He also has Asperger's so I didn't want to make things hard for him but I found it impossible to drown out the sound and so the boss eventually asked him to get a different pen that wouldn't be so noisy.