What do you think I could do about someone banging garages?

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I just can't believe my 'luck', if it's even that at all now since it seems to happen constantly and so more a case of people's 'not give a s**t about anyone else' attitude that seemingly everyone has. But seriously, flats/room doors isn't enough, no, they need to bang car doors too... but even that isn't enough, because apparently it's some ritual of stupidity to use a garage's heavy metal to make horrid noises so their lives could be convenient, but everyone else's ruined, yay! I'm speculating that Godzilla himself might be next in line to annoy me with his stomping at this point, and people will be like "eh, that is just normal in human societies, why there's even a couple of drones that smash into houses in an attempt to deliver dildos, and one can't possibly reverse the positives of capitalism!"

I'm getting so frustrated at this point, is everyone certain that it's likely to be noisier in a prison? At this rate it seems it would be at least equal, and I don't think they can fit a garage door inside either... but, anyway, AS f*****g USUAL I'll simply begin... yet again, for the umpteenth year, to counteract this... somehow.

How? I'm so exasperated. I guess leaving a taped note telling them to stop to begin with, but what then if it that doesn't work? Reflective banging like I used to do when neighbours within the same building bashed their doors? Of course, this time it will be so much harder for me considering I'd need to go out of my flat and up to the garage to bang.

I'M SO FED UP OF SOCIETY, SO f*****g FED UP!

It’s probably time to seek a rural locale, if possible.

In the meantime, there should be hours when excessive noise is reportable to the authorities.

Call 911 and have them send a police officer to deal with it. That is what I do. I actually called an officer on a neighbor yesterday and they came and dealt with her. Her music was so loud that she could not hear the officer banging on her door or her window. He had to flash patterns with his flashlight light through her upstairs windows until he finally got her attention. I watched all this from my window across the street. She turned her music off. Check online to see what the noise ordinances in your town are and have the police deal with your neighbor.

Kraftie, most of us can't afford to just get up and move. If we could, we would have a long time ago.

Generally in the area where I live, garage doors do not bang. They are all equipped with garage door openers that gently move the door to the garage floor. So I suspect that you are dealing with an old designed door.

From your thread it appears that you have an oversensitivity to sound. So here are a few suggestions.
* As another member stated, you might try and relocate to a rural setting.
* You might purchase a noise canceling headsets to reduce noise.
* If you own the flat, you might modify the flat to reduce sound levels. I packed all my walls with fiberglass insulation (both interior and exterior walls) and it really deadened the sound levels significantly. Today they also have insulation that can be sprayed into existing walls and floors.
* There are special curtains that are called Soundproof Thermal Insulated Blackout Curtains, that can help you soundproof around your windows.
* In my house I installed solid core doors instead of hollow core doors. They are stronger and also a a degree of soundproofing.

My house is so soundproof that it is almost frightening. Sometimes a violent storm will pass through and I will look out the front window and see the trees move violently back and forth but inside the quiet is spooky. I even had a large tree fall right next to the house and I didn't even notice it until the next morning when I went outside.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

More seriously, I wonder if people would be interested in reading more about the methods and processes you used to soundproof your house. Sound sensitivity isn't uncommon with ASD, and it might help a lot of people to get some ideas of how they could follow in your footsteps and remove at least one source of ongoing stress in their lives.

Sorry I don't really have a newsletter. Forty years ago, I took my wife and young child and moved into the hills of Southern Indiana. I bought 35 acres of rural property. We built our own home. [I don't mean we contracted the construction of the house. I mean that my wife and I physically constructed the house.] My wife commonly refers to our property as a jungle. Many times deer and other wild animals will walk right up to the house. Some of my trees are very old. I have one black oak tree that is approximately 172 years old. We also have wild grape vines that hang from the top of the trees. Some of these vines are 5-6 inches thick. It is about the closest thing one might do to becoming self sufficient in modern society. It is like becoming a hermit, with a wife and child in tow. [I think living off the land is a common desire for many Aspies].

In the design I incorporated many feature in the home that I thought were important. In the construction I used 2x6 lumber in the outside walls instead of 2x4's. This allowed my home to be very energy efficient, because I packed the exterior walls with fiberglass insulation. And then I packed all the interior walls with fiberglass also. This made the house almost soundproof. The sound does not carry from room to room.

This is a fairly easy process and fairly inexpensive during the construction phase. Nowadays this can be done by spraying insulation into the existing walls.

I also packed insulation into the attic, double the normal amount. My home is a concrete slab home. I had foam insulation sprayed on the ground and then the concrete was poured on the foam. In a sense my slab is insulated. In the dead of winter, I always walk on the floor with my bare feet and the floor is not cold, even when the temperatures dip down to -20 degrees F. I think walking barefoot is an Aspie thing. I feel well grounded.

I also incorporated double and triple pane windows and sliding glass doors into the design primarily for temperature efficiency.

For the past 40 years, I have heated my home solely with wood. I cut up dead trees on my property, split and store the wood and then I use a high efficiency wood stove to heat my house. I love wood heat. It is warm and comfortable. You come out of the snow and just stand next to the wood stove to get warm again.