Has your noise tollerance got any worse as you aged?

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I just went to a show that I had gone to many times when I was younger. I enjoyed it when I was younger. I just left halfway through it because I was tired and I couldn't really handle the noise from the music, and people around. I remember enjoying the show when I was eight or ten or so. They turn the music up far too loud at dances as well but I still go to those sometimes. I just don't get why I hate the noise and crap now and I didn't mind when I was >12 or so. I thought I'm supposed to become more tolerant of annoyances as I grow older. I'm only 16 but man... it's kind of disappointing.
I once told a girl I was dancing with that the music was too loud and she told me I was crazy. I told her that I keep my music on my headphones just above silent ( I love alternative rock / post grunge by the way). So have any of you experienced something similar?

Yes I have had this happened to me, I wear earplugs at concerts and load events now to cope and yes it was a sad day when I finally relised I needed them. Part of it is natural as your ears mature the range of frequancys they can take gets narower explaining how most kids like load high pitched noises and their parents find then annoying regardless of having an ASD or not. About your(OPs) age I became more sensitive to everything includeing sound and light so part of it must have been an ASD thing compounding the natural issue.

I like 1990's grunge music alot, its the heaviest I can handle listining to, how load depends on the band/song and the recording quality, for some examples I compare two grunge bands, I like Soundgarden however I can't take much of Chris Cornells screaming for prolonged periods of time at excessive volumes where as I don't usually have that problem with Alice in Chains since they sing at a much lower frequancy, its just a matter of getting used to the akward time signatures that can startle me if i'm not paying full attention! I also tend to like the slower, smoother songs and albums over the heavier ones so I tend to be oppisite of most rock music fans. Just my thoughts.

Yes to everything. Always had auditory hypersensitivity but it's got really bad now. And I jump from loud or unexpected noises too. People sometimes think my reaction is really OTT. I still can hear high pitches as I hear some sonic things and hear a lot of things others can't, but my tolerance is so much lower now. I have been to concerts and nightclubs in the past, and I wondered the same thing, why could I do it then but not now.

Yes, absolutely! Interestingly, my tolerances seem to be proportionally affected by the amount of stress I am experiencing.

If life is going "well" I can, for example, go to a nightclub, and going to football matches helps me retain a little resistance to simply being overwhelmed by all encompassing noise, though now I'm thinking about it, having something to focus on, such as the match or a conversation enables me in some part to block out the barrage which is still always there - it seems that my "strength" waxes and wanes.

I live right next to a busy road and a railway line, but unexpected people noise drives me insane, and a sudden unexpected noise can paralyse me for a moment. I can clearly hear sonic pet and insect repellers, and low bass? Don't go there!

I have always been terrified of loud noises but am calmer as I have grown older so not as bad with thunder for example as I understand what it is and it is natural. However our environment has became noisier with constant traffic noise - even now I can hear the distant roar from the motorway a mile away. We get a lot of helicopters overhead as well and these really stress me out. And when the sun comes out, the neighbouring gardens fill with children whose sole enjoyment seems to come from trying to scream louder than their friends. Oh, and people who play music outside - why would I want to listen to the rubbish they think is music? I am a grumpy old woman when it comes to noise. Even the television being on a lot annoys me as I want peace and quiet more and more.

Seems to be the same but i can almost bear some kind of noises now. The difference is when i was a small child, there were some noises that would make me go and throw up (be sick) somewhere.

Now i am not sick from certain noises but i am still hyper-sensitive to them.

Wait until you get to your mid fifties!
Even NT Old Folk don't like noise, if I didnt like music so much, I would consider having my eardrums removed.

it's not so much that my tolerance changed, but volume of bands and events has gone up over the years, that might be what is happening to you.
i can indeed tolerate less then earlier (relatively) but i know that it is not my own tolerance, becouse when i have influence on the volume there is no notable difference in now and a few years back

I can't say directly "yes" or "no", but I will say that my tolerance for various noises has changed significantly since I was a little kid. Things like children shrieking in public maybe didn't bother me as much before, but they are INTOLERABLE now. Other things such as gunfire and other sudden bangs, don't bother me too much now, nor before, but train horns annoy me more than they did before. On the other hand, loud music doesn't bother me now, as much as before. My hearing is still FAR, FAR keener than average, so it's not a matter of hearing loss with age.

Charles

Hmm, yes and no really.

My noise tolerance has definitely got worse at home (yes, looking into moving out at some point, won't happen yet due to circumstances I do not wish to discuss at the moment). Most household/family noises really agitate me, so I find myself sitting in my room with earplugs in half the time. This very gradually began getting worse since I was about 19. Before that, I could filter out all household noises when in my room. Now I can't bear hearing other noises when in my room.

But when I was a child, especially in my early teens, noises in public made me distressed very easily, and I used to show myself up. Like if there was a baby screaming in a restaurant, I used to get really angry and stamp my feet and swear. My mum used to feel embarrassed to go out with me anywhere. I remember once when I was 13 I was getting undressed in the swimming-pool changing-rooms on holiday, and a baby was screaming, and me and my mum were getting undressed in a big cubicle and I kicked the door of the cubicle yelling, ''shut up!! !''
But after I got to about 16, I gradually got better at keeping my cool when hearing a loud kid or baby in public. It still upsets me and makes me feel angry inside, but I don't show it so much.