02 May 2013, 3:05 pm
amyb73 wrote:
AardvarkGoodSwimmer wrote:
Hi, Welcome to Wrong Planet! 
Okay, the part with not liking the sounds of eating or swallowing, I have heard that elsewhere on Wrong Planet. My issues are more like repetitive noises or unpredictable noises. For example, a smoke detector with a low battery that is chirping. How can I get into a task, and let myself go and really give myself permission to concentrate, if at any moment this doggone this is going to have this sudden unpredictable noise? And I think the chirping detector bothers 'normal' people, but not like it bothers me. (and no such thing as 'normal' anyway, and how boring the world would be if there were!
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Okay, the part with not liking the sounds of eating or swallowing, I have heard that elsewhere on Wrong Planet. My issues are more like repetitive noises or unpredictable noises. For example, a smoke detector with a low battery that is chirping. How can I get into a task, and let myself go and really give myself permission to concentrate, if at any moment this doggone this is going to have this sudden unpredictable noise? And I think the chirping detector bothers 'normal' people, but not like it bothers me. (and no such thing as 'normal' anyway, and how boring the world would be if there were!
)Oh I TOTALLY understand the smoke detector thing. I'm like that too.. not necessarily with smoke detectors, but if I am aware that an unpleasant/disruptive sound MIGHT happen, I get hyper-vigilant... I start clenching my jaw, knitting my eyebrows, etc. People sometimes take that as me being pissed off about something. One day, in a meeting at work, someone across the hall from the conference room had a runny nose, and would sniff at random intervals. It was driving me MAD, and I sat there for the whole meeting "scowling" and could not explain why. (I knew why, but I was hesitant to share the real reason, so I just made something up about the specs not being right, and having a headache.)
I hate the "low battery" indicator on the fire alarm, the water pump... anything that makes a repetitive, delayed sound. I can tune out a quickly revolving alarm, but not a low-volume, wide-interval noise. Drives me nuts!
I also make "the pained face" and fingers in the ears when someone blows up a balloon, especially when it gets more then medium sized. I have to brace myself for a potential explosion.
02 May 2013, 5:14 pm
mikassyna wrote:
I hate the "low battery" indicator on the fire alarm, the water pump... anything that makes a repetitive, delayed sound. I can tune out a quickly revolving alarm, but not a low-volume, wide-interval noise. Drives me nuts!
I also make "the pained face" and fingers in the ears when someone blows up a balloon, especially when it gets more then medium sized. I have to brace myself for a potential explosion.
Right after I graduated from high school, I took a job at a fast food place. We rotated positions, and I always DREADED working the drive through. You had to wear a headset and every time someone drove up to the speaker, it played a very loud, obnoxious, dissonant tone,
and there was NO way to turn the volume down, and we could not see the area where the menu was, so I had no warning when a car pulled up. Of course, nobody understood why that scenario made me so anxious. LOL!!
