Voices that make you uncomfortable

[NDR2]

There's been talk in the forum about images that make us uncomfortable. It's very likely that certain voices may have made us uncomfortable at one time or another. As a child, there were certain types of voices that may have seemed unappealing or would make me feel uneasy - certainly if they sounded strange, unpleasant, or loud. So I thought I'd start a thread for people to talk about it. Those with sensory issues may want to proceed in this thread with caution.

I'll start with some examples in scenes from "Sesame Street." I was a highly sensitive child, so quite a few of the scenes on "Sesame Street" could have upset, saddened, or seem unpleasant to me. Certainly types of voices could add to those feelings.

I didn't find the voices of the boys in this cartoon pleasant. But the voice of the boy with the cap seemed sort of "harsh."

I know this is two pictures of Bill Cosby, but that didn't quite occur to me when I was a child. I preferred the voice of the one on the left to the one on the right - particularly since the one on the right yelled a couple of times.

I didn't like the ending of this cartoon.

I particularly didn't like the ending of this scene. But the announcer's voice didn't sound too pleasant even at normal tone. (Definitely keep the volume low for this one if you have sensory issues.)

I didn't like the gruff voice of the catcher.

I didn't like the sounds the adults made as they ate the phone.

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The voice in this film sounded sort of unpleasant to me. I've seen some things on-line about people who were frightened by this film as a child, but it didn't bother me too much visually. (I did notice the pale color of the hand. And I agree on one description of the voice as "someone on Prozac." I didn't find the organ music "scary," but I didn't like slow music as a child, so it didn't really appeal to me.)
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[Misery]

For me it's anyone singing anything for any reason. No exceptions.

As a kid I would watch like a Disney movie or something (albeit rarely) and I'd try to skip past the musical parts.

Not much else to say about it really. I usually dont mention it, it confuses the heck outta people and then trying to explain further just worsens that.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Musical theater.

This is not normal behavior, it is quite disturbing to me, I don't get it, I find it quite repulsive. For some reason, some people enjoy musicals, going to see Broadway plays, etc. If you want to sing a song, sing a song. If you want to tell a story on stage, then do so. If you want to dance, then dance. Just don't combine them. Nobody dances and sings their way through their daily life in the real world. It hurts my brain to think why anyone would think this is entertaining.

The "mom voice". The tone of voice that gets used when she wants to grab your attention so she can discipline you, order you to do chores around the house, etc. Abrasive.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

I'm very familiar with this issue. It doesn't happen all too often, but I've encountered several people whose voices are incredibly uncomfortable to me. They all are more high-pitched, and have a somewhat complainy sound to them. It makes me feel tensed up as soon as that person starts speaking, and I get overstimulated by them much quicker than by others.

 

[Captain Mars]

I've got an unusual knack for picking up emotions from others, not by observation, but by pitch and feel. I'm also hyper-averse to conflict, pathologically so, I might add. See where this is going?
Maybe it's partly my unstable upbringing, maybe it's how easily I become overstimulated, but every time someone starts shouting, even if it isn't directed at me, I get this feeling like I'm going to have a panic attack. More often than not, I just freeze up, like a deer in headlights. Like my brain is just incapable of dealing with it, so I shut down.

Side note; as the child of emotionally unstable parents, picking freeze out of fight flight or freeze was probably worse than picking anything else. They did NOT like that at ALL.