Hatred of Sounds

Lip smacking juicy sounds when chewing. It's just...ewwww.

I was in a rather confined space the other morning with about 8 other people, and this man, who HAD to be in his mid-60s, and very clean cut and well groomed, was smacking the *kitten* out of his gum. It had to be the single most obnoxious example of the kind of sound that drives me crazy that I have ever heard. I kept looking to see if he had slobber running down his chin or out of the corners of his mouth.

Worse than nails on a chalkboard to me, and THAT's pretty bad.

I hate the sound when people eat hard candies or jawbreakers, etc. and they roll it around and let it hit their molars - that ticking sound... or when i can hear someone else swallow spit. I also had when Im eating pickles and my teeth squeak!

- Loud semi-trucks and motorcycles
- Mouth-smacking noises when people eat or talk
- The whir of fluorescent lights when they are turned on
- High-pitched squealing or whining
- Children's programming

I am mystified by people who cannot breathe silently. I guess because I'm a pretty silent breather, the noisy ones seem obnoxiously loud to me. But they don't seem to notice it! Maybe I'm a noisy breather too but I just can't hear myself?? Dunno.

What drives me completely bonkers is the sound of someone grinding their teeth. ARHRHARHGHGHARHGHG!! The WORST! It makes my own teeth hurt just to hear that! and my skin crawls and my arm hair stands up... I have to put my tongue between my teeth and bite down to reassure myself that my teeth are not scraping together, and it makes me want to scratch up and down on my arms..... a little self-injurious behavior to achieve pain attenuation, anyone?? :-)

Oh my gosh... this is me! Thanks for sharing. I also have perfect pitch, so when things aren't on pitch (think: car horns), it drives me nuts.

Between my family and I, we have 7 dogs and 3 cats and I hate the noise they make when they lick something.

And breathing. Argh... it sounds like awful rattling! High-pitched anything, the sound a TV makes when you have the volume turned totally down, and anything having to do with mouths (eating, chewing, etc).

Loud breathers.
Fork/spoon biters and especially those who drag their teeth along the silverware!!!
People chewing, smacking lips, etc.
People who suck the snot up their noses.
MACARONI EATING (that is vile, so glad someone earlier in the thread reminded me)
Tin foil being torn or unwrapped...that one is hard to explain, but it is a certain type of foil. Makes me scream.
car alarms, burglar alarms, fire alarms.

I think that covers it....

I hate any kind of oral noise so so so much! My coworker used to come out to my area (reception) after she had eaten and she would suck her teeth. Omg, I wanted to scream! I endured until I could take no more and had to ask her to stop, which she did for a while then started up again until I had to say something a 2nd time. Thankfully, she seems able to control herself these days.

I've hated noises at a certain pitch (loud motorcycles/cars, backfiring, fireworks, gunshots) ever since I can remember. My mother dismissed it as just being afraid of noises and smacked me around for being a "baby." She didn't understand when I said that the noise physically hurts my ears. Now I know I actually have hyperacusis, and that some people get pain from a much wider range of sounds than I do.

Clipping of fingernails. But only in places they shouldn't be clipped. If I'm at the nail salon I can deal. At my desk however I want to punch someone in the throat.

When my dog licks himself. I can hear him behind the closed door when he is in the other room. Yea I hate it that much. And will get all psycho screaming at him to stop..

When someone is pooing and I can hear it falling in the bowl. That is almost vomit inducing for me.

If you want to drive me insane, clip your nails in the bathroom at work while your dog licks himself and you are pooing in the stall next to me.

I hate the sound of my ex-husband's voice.

GOD YES this too.

Ugh. I hate when mine or someone elses utensil scratches the plate. It gives me chills.

Clipping of fingernails. But only in places they shouldn't be clipped. If I'm at the nail salon I can deal. At my desk however I want to punch someone in the throat.

When my dog licks himself. I can hear him behind the closed door when he is in the other room. Yea I hate it that much. And will get all psycho screaming at him to stop..

When someone is pooing and I can hear it falling in the bowl. That is almost vomit inducing for me.

If you want to drive me insane, clip your nails in the bathroom at work while your dog licks himself and you are pooing in the stall next to me.

OMG! My DH and I were the movies and this old man starts clipping his nails. It was ALL I could hear! *snip...snip...snip* finally you DH turned around and told his wife to make him behave in public lol.

I am sound sensitive. People eating is A BIG one. And mouth breathers. ugh.

Yes I have always had sound issues. My family never thought I was an a-hole but they thought it was funny.

Whistling raises my anxiety more than any other pet peeve. If it is happening around me, I will not hear anything else. There have been many times where I had to change my whole supermarket shopping routine just to get away from whistlers. I once had a guy get very aggressive with me in a card store because he was whistling and I asked him to stop. I thought it was a reasonable request because we were in a card store and it's quiet in there. He felt differently. The odd thing is that I can handle whistling in music (like Otis Redding's Dock of the Bay). But the whistling of folks around me is intolerable.

THIS exactly. I can't stand whistling. I have most of my friends and family traind to not do it around me. I also don't mind it in music, or if I do it myself. There are occasional times where it doesn't bother me, but usually it drives me crazy.