Noise + crowds = HELL...

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16 Jun 2009, 1:30 pm

Since I started at this new school a few months ago, I've had problems with the sheer volume of the noise. At my old school, students were relatively well-behaved and sensible, but here, most of the teachers can't be arsed to even try and control the students at all, so people just make as much noise as they want.

I also hate crowds. It's bad enough anyway, but people hate me so they deliberately push me and try to trip me up.

Yesterday was really bad. Instead of typing out the whole story again, I'll paste it from an email I sent to my friend right after school:

Email to my friend wrote:

Today was crap cos everyone in my science class was being really noisy, and it turns out some of the boys had a bet on how long it would take for me to put my hands over my ears and bash my head against the desk (answer: not long). Then before PE, both the Year 9 PE classes were crammed into a tiny corridor, and people started chanting my name (they found it it annoys me, so now they won't stop) and someone tried to trip me up, and it was so loud and crowded, so I put my hands over my ears again and pushed right through the crowd to get out of there. Someone (might have been Amber) stepped in front of me on purpose, so I pushed her out of the way and I heard an indignant shout of, "She f-ing pushed me! What the f?!" but I kept running until I was out of the crowd.

The PE teacher construed my running away as an attempt to skive PE. Yeah, right - as if I'm still trying that one...I've learnt that no tricks work at this school. (PE's not so bad anymore, anyway.)

I hate this school. I never learn anything because people keep talking really loudly when the teacher's talking, and half the time what the teacher is saying isn't all that educational anyway. In the hours I waste sitting in a classroom, I could be at home learning about interesting stuff on the internet. And nobody shouts at me and pushes me in my room (except my mum, but that's only when she's in a bad mood or I challenge her authority or whatever).

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17 Jun 2009, 11:26 am

ugh. i totally agree with you. noise and big crowds are my total downfall.

the math clinic in my school is absolutely tiny and i had to go up last friday to finish a test. well there's a rule that you can't go back down to a study hall after you sign out to the clinic or the library. i finished my test in 10 minutes and the teacher had just gotten the sign-out list from study hall when i asked to go back down to the cafeteria. i had 1/2 an hour before the end of the period and the teacher said no. there were 18 other people in the clinic besides me so it was crammed and really loud.

i ended up having a total crowd-induced panic attack. i freaked out; i was shaking like a leaf & i couldn't breathe or talk. i'm pretty sure i scared the crap out of my boyfriend (even tho he won't admit it)

thank god monday was my last day of high school ever (graduation for me is on the 27th)

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17 Jun 2009, 7:07 pm

I know what you mean Gina, one time I was at a fair, and it was late, and everyone was all around, all the crowd noises blended in and it was weird and I didn't really know where I was going and I had to sit down.

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19 Jun 2009, 3:02 am

I can't stand noise as well but it's not at school.

I'm usually afraid of hearing something really loud. For example thunder.

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19 Jun 2009, 2:44 pm

Emma93 wrote:

I can't stand noise as well but it's not at school.

I'm usually afraid of hearing something really loud. For example thunder.

1 of my best friends (NT) is deathly afraid of thunder...

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25 Jun 2009, 1:30 pm

I was at one of my friend's birthday party and we had 4 Xbox 360s set up playing Left 4 Dead. One upstairs and three downstairs. We had two people on each Xbox. If youve ever played the game, youll know four of us were the infected and the other four were the survivors. Anyway, people were yelling and laughing, etc. You know, just being excited and having fun. I wasnt necessarily freaking out, I was just very confused and a little uncomfortable. Does anyone else get confused when a lot of noise is going on? I dont even know what I was confused about too. Part of it was the seemingly disorganisation. If there were two TVs upstairs, I would have had one team upstairs and the other downstairs, but it didnt go that way obviously. I like having organisation and without it, I get disoriented.

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26 Jun 2009, 4:54 am

yeah crowds and noise= melt downs

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26 Jun 2009, 1:28 pm

scorpileo wrote:

yeah crowds and noise= melt downs

Pretty much.

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26 Jun 2009, 2:49 pm

scorpileo wrote:

yeah crowds and noise= melt downs

Ditto.

Its why i never go theme parks or the like, i'd rather visit some Abbeys or other such things because of the noise and crowd levels.

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26 Jun 2009, 3:19 pm

You should consider using earplugs in school. I occasionally do :oops:

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