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What noise annoys you the most?
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Any noise that I don’t know is an immediate problem for me. If I don’t know what it is and I can hear it, I absolutely have to stop what I’m doing and find out. I can’t convince myself to stop this because it’s actually led me to detecting leaky pipes in my house twice now, right as they broke.
Also the sound of cotton balls rubbing together. Horrendous. And coil whine of electronics, that’s awful too. As is just the sound of electricity in general, like fluorescent lights make an awful noise. I’m gonna stop here before this becomes a novel.
You sound like me. Recently my girlfriend and I moved. One day while packing, my girlfriend came downstairs and I heard a loud-ish hissing upstairs. She had no idea what I was talking about and didn't notice it at all. I ran upstairs to check on it and it turns out she had packed some things tightly on top of some cleaning supplies. If it were up to her, the entire bottle of Lysol would've sprayed out and destroyed a lot of things in that box. I prevented that. So yeah I'm totally with you, noticing sounds that don't make immediate sense can save you trouble and it could also save your life, so as maddening as it can be it's also very useful and I won't try to stop noticing these sounds.
I feel the same way. I'm always "overreacting" no matter how much trouble or risk I avoid by reacting. It's pretty exhausting.
My wife is the same way with cotton balls and cotton pads. She will not touch them or be near anyone using them. She recently bought reusable makeup remover cotton rounds thinghy things which made makeup removal much easier for her.
She's always been like that, and we only recently discovered she most likely have autism.
My partner got me a GPU a while back (oh my god I looked it up and it was ten years ago aaaaaaaaa) that was an incredible deal for its power, but had a TON of reports of coil whine. I was delighted to hear nothing from it the first few days of playing! Then it promptly died. To death. To shreds, even. ah well, it happens, better now than out of return period. I sent it back for a replacement and got another one, TERRIFIED its replacement would be an auditory nightmare after being lucky the first time.
I got lucky the second time, and it still works to this day!
I feel you on that one. Cotton balls don’t bother me, but I know that’s a nightmare for my mum. That and just the idea of
The Idea that some might not wanna think about
chewing tin foil(I’m sorry to put that in anyone’s head if that bothers them oh god lemme spoiler that just in case) bothers her a ton but doesn’t really hit for me.
Electronic sounds can be a nightmare. I love CRTs but I can’t be around many of them because they hit my brain in The Bad Spot. One tiny benefit to my tinnitus is I’ve found a few CRTs that seem to have a similar/the same frequency so I can be around them when they’re on!