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I get extremely distressed when I hear a baby screaming or when I'm on the underground without my earplugs on. Once I nearly screamed at a baby in public because it was constantly crying. I don't know how parents cope with the noise, if I had a baby (and I highly doubt that ever happening), it would be taken away from me by the social services very quickly

High frequency noises and loud sounds I find the most distressing.Examples include: Screaming infants or toddlers,HF appliances like vacuum cleaners,loud garden appliances et cetera.I can go to even more but I do not want anyone here being bored.

Any constant, rhythmic sound.

As a child, I would be driven absolutely crazy by the sound of crickets outside my window. I would run to my parent's room and cry to them.

Often in school, the ticking of the clock drives me crazy also. Especially when it relatively quiet in the room. During tests, I would ask the teacher multiple times if I could use the restroom. I told them stress caused me to urinate often. Then, I would pace the halls until I felt I could suffer through ten more minutes.

I hate the sound of ceiling fans when they create noise too.

FINALLY! somebody else who needs smooth noise to function properly, or who needs noise to mask the disturbing sound of their own bodily processes. i find total silence [what i get for living out in the woods at night] makes my tinnitus deafening.
there are two classes of noise- smoothly benign, and sharply harsh. smoothly benign noises are constant noises which have no harsh textures or sharp edges. fans=smooth, vacuum cleaners=harsh. the soft whoose of wind blowing=smooth, but the nasty sharp hiss and crackle of noisy old phonograph recordings=harsh.

I can't stand the sound of drunk NT teens, or their cranked up music, late at night.

Wouldn't it be cool if they cranked up the Kinks and then sat quietly, listening? Then you could be soothed off to sleep with your favorite band whenever they partied next door.

Of course it always seems that if there's a loud party next door they're playing whatever sort of music I like LEAST out of all the music in the world.

I have always been sensitive to sound and it's getting worse with age. Though I can very well remember that when I was little, I always bawled my head off at any kind of festivities accompanied by loud music - birthday parties, weddings, public celebrations, etc. Never been able to stand the noise at a football match or a disco or a club.
Generally I can't stand high-pitched noices like babies screaming and chidren crying and police sirens. Also, I have an idiosyncrasy to people coughing. At home I am the noise police and I always cringe at the sound of commercials which usually are three times the level of any other sound that might come out of the TV or the radio. Thus summer I had to wear ear plugs throughout my summer holiday, because I found the noise at the beach and at restaurants unbearable. NTs seem to be talking and talking and talking with no end - really, the sound of pointless babble in a bus or when I am standing in a queue drives me nuts and I always perform a couple of ipod checks before I go outside so that I wouldn't have to listen to what happened to somebody else's auntie the other day. Don't know why but where I live people prefer to shout to each other while they are only standing a foot apart.

Another member mentioned crickets - I do hate the sound, when I was young I couldn't sleep when we went anywhere there were crickets. Years ago, when I first started keeping tarantulas as pets, I let a male cricket escape and the sound it made drove me out of my room for 3 solid nights.

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I'm extremely sensitive to noise!

The sound of multiple people talking at once. Nothing more annoying than that.
Scrambling sounds - confuse me.
Sharp, cutting noises - horrible.
Lots of music genres have the same effect on me: trance, house, dance, etc. They make me want to scream!

Interestingly enough, I am not sensitive to sound at all!

However, I am REALLY sensitive to touch and taste, I can't stand certain fabrics and taste!

I do not like the sound of blenders very much though, my dad is blending something up as I post this!

I like it to be completly quite, but what I then notice is, even sounds like me picking up and putting down the computer mouse make me jump, like an electric shock going through my body, even tapping the keys of the keyboard send multiple shocks through me though its not so bad as I type quickly.

Its so strange that a noise that cannot be a suprise, as Iam making it myself, still makes me jump.

When people talk too fast it becomes noise to me. Especially female voices. I think it is because female voices are usually higher in pitch, not a gender thing.

Ditto.

Scraping noises can give me goosebumps.

But apart from that, not much. Fire alarms and car horns won't trigger anything in me (also I listen to black/death metal and grindcore).

I had to buy a manual carpet cleaner because I am unable to use a vacuum cleaner due to the noise

I'm super sensitive to sound but usually I can deal with most sounds. I usually have to have some sort of white noise going on at all times though so I don't focus on noises. I hate all bodily fluid noises as they make me cringe. Sitting in a silent setting with people eating drives me insane. I can't stand loud noises though. Like jackhammers drive off the wall... or even loud music of any kind. I also hate that silent ringing noise you get when your hearing gets damaged... it just makes me annoyed I guess.

Surprisingly babies don't bug me when they cry... I just get confused/ curious to what's wrong with them. I love the sound of wind, rain, ocean waves, or the crackling of fire... thunder sounds nice too

thunder and lightning are ok as long as they are safely distant. but the thought of having my ears blown out and my carcass barbequed from anything closer dims my appreciation of the sound and fury.