[lisa]

me too!

and yes – with my recent diagnosis of asd, I feel that I have been more aware of and over analyzing my noise sensitivity – like a self fulfilling prophesy too… questioning and second guessing myself???

but the fact remains that I have always been sensitive to noises, I guess now I just have a better excuse to justify my asking people to turn their radio off please:)

Here’s a list of the noises that drive me nuts…

*when the radio AND television are both audible at the same time – I need to hear either one or the other, Oh please…

*when the phone rings and I can hear the ring from different handsets in different rooms and the sounds overlap – makes me feel nauseous…

*when I hear a mechanical noise that ‘winds up’ from slow to fast, like an electric drill, a motor starting up – or even like the sound of an exercise bike … those noises really wind me up too and make me feel extra anxious – even angry…

* there is a type of bird in my area that calls repeatedly and with the sound rising in pitch higher and higher… they came to eat the fruit on the palm trees seasonally… it bugs me so much that I have even hired arborists to remove that fruit, and I WILL throw stones at those birds and try to chase them away…

*when gross sounds are on a TV show or a movie (I cant listen to the sound of someone vomiting without feeling physically sick myself – I can taste it in my mouth) my whole family know this – and if it happens that the show we are watching makes these noises, we all sing ‘la la la la’ until it stops … my family do this purely for my benefit, those sounds don’t seem to upset them at all…

*I love music and can listen to loud music without a problem – except – when in a car and the sound is coming from the speakers in the back of the car… I dont like it at all… I feel the sound of music should come at me from the front (my ears face forwards) when watching a live music performance you face towards the stage to appreciate the music right? is this just me? I have disabled the speakers in the back of my car so that I can only hear my music coming at me from in front 🙂

As far as what you could do – I have heard that some people with autism will use ear plugs or earmuffs to make a noisy space quieter for them?

Good luck with managing your noise sensitivity <3

Lisa

 

 

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