Sensitivity to noise?

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I agree. Noise machines make me angry. The noise they cause is.. ugh. Unnatural and grates on my every nerve.

A fan going all the time I can tolerate. But only all the time, at the same speeds. I use a stand up oscillating fan, but I don't oscillate it. Oh god if it actually turned around and blew the air everywhere it would drive me crazy with its unpredictability.

That only works if your sensitivity is bareable to begin with. Your sensitivity can be so bad that it is impossible to get used to it without constant meltdowns from trying.

This is another way our bodies react when feeling very stressed & anxious, body being on constant high alet when a stressful situation occurs. We need to learne postive ways to control this, instead of avoiding situations.

I guess I must be lucky. I have no problem with loud sounds, depends really what they are, but it seems certain sounds bother me a lot.

I can be kept awake all night by the dog licking his paws, neighbours snoring, the whine of my Sky box on standby, the fridge... but I can block these out.

If somebody is rubbing sandpaper nearby, that sound is very overwhelming for me. Another example is an almost dry whiteboard marker on flipchart paper. I can't use chalk on a blackboard, because of the sensation it gives me. I can't describe it, but it's the same thing as when I hear those certain sounds. It's like my shoulder, neck and back bones are crumbling to dust, like a tickle of powder, and I can't breathe or talk properly.

There are lots of others that have this effect of incapacitating me, but millions others that just annoy me severely.

However, I can walk into my doctor's office and make an appointment quite calmly, while the fire alarms are going off and everyone's covering their ears and making faces. Sure, I don't like the loud noise, but it seems it's not as big a deal to me as it should be.

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those sounds are wired in our brains from ancient times, almost everyone has those feelings with those sounds.

Noises don't usually bother me, I do get jumpy if people shout but I'm not that sensitive. I was when I was a kid though I used to hate drills, they're annoying now but I used to really hate them when I was younger.
My sensory things are more to do with touch and light, although it depends on what kind of light, on very sunny days I squint alot but I love nightclub lights, and because of that discos/clubs are a positive senory experience. Where-as sounds aren't too much of a bother, I actually don't like dead silence I want a bit of background.

Some loud noises I'm fine with, others bother me. I can tolerate a fire engine siren but can't stand the pitch of police and ambulance ones.

I have real problems with noises. It is worse when it is a noise that doesn't bother anyone else (or no one else can hear it) because you get told off when you meltdown or complain. I know you personally don't like the outside white noise machine, but I have got two 'hearing aids' which play white noise at a very low volume which are slowly re-tuning the wiring in my brain because I have got hyperacusis (basically what Aspies get X100) and I go insane if I hear certain things. I am getting better now thanks to them. If it is a huge problem with noise for you, go to your doctor and ask to see a hearing specialist (who specialises in hyperacusis).

I'm very very sensitive to noise, and the worst part is I have a volunteer position where I have to be exposed to a huge amount of screaming students.

For me, it's shrill or abrupt loud noises.

Examples:

Diesel train horns (Railroad tracks front my apartment complex).

The tornado sirens that sound when there is lightning in the area, regardless of whether or not there is an actual tornado sighted.

Loud, impromptu yelling by people. The example I often use is pastors at some evangelical churches (Baptist or Pentecostal). This is one of the reasons I chose Lutheranism.

Smoke/fire alarms. About a month ago, the battery started getting low on the smoke alarm in my bedroom, and it would give a very short beep every 3 minutes. The maintenance people fixed it a few days ago.

Sensory issues usually have a greater impact if they occur when I am trying to sleep.

For me, it's limited to popping balloons, fireworks, gunshots, etc.

Can noise sensitivity worsen with age? I don't remember having any notable problems with noise as a child, but I am very intolerant now. Although it's definitely type of noise as opposed to volume of noise that bothers me. Some quite loud noises such as storms or traffic are of no issue to me, but a noise such as just barely being able to hear someone else's TV is absolutely intolerable.

That is very possible. I found I had more problems with it as I aged.

Yes, exactly. I used to be much more bothered by this, but as I get older it gets easier. Ticking clocks used to get me, but I could kind of do those since they are more regular. Sudden noises used to completely freak me out, household noises such as the dishwasher clicking on, the furnace firing up, or the vacuum cleaner running.

Now that I know when to anticipate these noises, they don't bother me anymore.

Static on the radio or the telly. Sometimes the Missus will leave the TV on a empty channel because she's bust setting up the recorder. Makes me grit my teeth ! !! !

I don't have a major problem here, but I do pick up little sounds and they drive me up the wall until I do something about them. Old PC monitors with that whine caused by voltage arcing over dust in the air....too much to cope with.