Oh wow. I didn't expect so many replies
Sometimes it's okay.
Then Im completely gone because my wife is squeaking her eyeballs.
I try to suppress the reaction.
I know that noise & I hate it. My mother's eyes squeak, too, sometimes. I think it's when they're too dry.
I hate things like electronic humming or the noise of the TV signal. I have been told many times that you can't hear electricity and things like signals to the TV, but I beg to differ. (I sound crazy, I know)
I second you on that. I hear those, too. I never thought it could have to do with signals, though, that's a good point you made.
Anyways, here's my non exhaustive list:
- Tapping, banging, knocking, or repetitive thud-like sound, really, plus pen clicking. And mouse-clicking, but for some weird reason, most keyboards are bearable.
- The sound some people make when they swallow their saliva while talking. I just want to smack them in the face.
- Ticking clocks. I hate those with a fiery passion.
- Construction sounds: drilling, knocking with a hammer, wood sawing, sandpapering stuff, you name it.
- Kids (unless they're as dead inside and silent as I was as a child). I'm sorry, kids of the world, it's not you, it's me.
- Rubbing sounds. You know the noise some winter coats make when the sleeves rub against the abdomen? That's a horrible one. Or the sound of pant legs rubbing against one another. Or worse, the sound when people run their hand in their hair, it's like I can hear every single hair go creeeeeeeeee one after the other.
- My boyfriend's alarm on his phone. It took me 5 years (& that was actually today) to tell him that every time I heard it, I could feel a rush of anguish rise as fast as water thru a broken dam, and then it leaves me in a rage.
- Simultaneous sounds: people talking at the same time, or over the TV/music/outside noise. I can't naturally select the "source" I need to focus on and turn down the other one.
Voices at a distance: I feel like attacked like the voices are throwing punches at me. So that would be people speaking outside the window, having a birthday party 4 floors above, chatting while they're cooking with the windows open, kids passing by my doorstep while they're throwing a tantrum, or even people's TV... I don't hate people, but I can't stand their unsollicited noise. Until last December, my upstairs neighbors had a very regular sex schedule, old bedsprings, and squeaky wooden floors. It was hell, it would wake me up, keep me from sleeping, and what can you do besides put a furniture store catalogue on their doormat with a couple of beds and rugs circled up?
