Alternatively, autistic (coded) behaviours just being a joke.
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there are two noises that fucking piss me off to no end, barely audible consistent droning. And irregular loud noises.
It’s super fucking annoying.
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Oh yeah I noticed it earlier, actually. Yeah the AC does whine a bit.
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THANK you! So why aren’t you going insane?
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I just decided to not let it bother me.
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YOU WHAT
“Why can’t you just ignore someone eating next to you, and also, why do you have to wear headphones and/or listen to metal all the time”
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Both. My wife is the super genius but sensitive to light, sound and smell. She wear special glasses, age has taken the edge off her sensitive hearing, and COVID-19 practically deleted her sense of smell. She’s never been happier. Her new favorite thing to do is walk around theme parks because the sounds and smells no longer bother her.
Does the impacted sense of smell mess with enjoyment of food though?
100%. She’s lost a ton of weight and is as skinny today as when we met 30 years ago. She says she just doesn’t really enjoy food any more and she can eat super spicy now. She’s turned into one of those suited guys from Fringe where they put on a ton of hit sauce on everything because they couldn’t taste anything otherwise.
Shitty USB chargers get to me. They all produce an electrical pitch.
I keep a spectral analyzer app on my phone so I can check if it’s a real noise or just tinnitus settling in.
Which one are you using?
I like AudioTool by jjbunn. But you’ll need an external mic if you want anything resembling accuracy.
THEY DO
Thankfully the ADHD part constantly forgets about the noise.
If only. 😞 My ADHD-I brain often just decides that that is the thing we are going to focus our attention on, because apparently it’s preferable to be bloody annoyed by some stupid sound than to get actual work done.
I remember how, as a kid, my room was next to the electricity meter which had this constant low hum and I more often than not just could not fall asleep, with my parents wondering how that could even be with “how silent it is”. And of course, if my parents or older siblings were watching TV in the evening in another room, that were some guaranteed sleepless hours as well.
Nowadays, I always sleep with earplugs and often even a sleeping mask, because even a few stray photons can completely ruin my sleep. I am thankful, that I’m not sensitive to the feeling of earplugs in my ears and find the pressure over my eyes soothing instead of stressful. But if I get any kind of inflammation of the ear canal or something similar, it’s right back to minor noises keeping me awake, urgh.
Kind of out of left field, so please ignore this at any point if it isn’t useful to you.
I have an acquaintance that has a similar issue. Not exactly the same, since light doesn’t bother him. But, as he’s tried ways to deal with sound sensitivity, over-ear active noise cancelling headphones have worked well when there’s some reason earplugs can’t be used.
Which, not everyone can stand the pressure on their outer ear, or be able to sleep with them on. So, again I hope the unsolicited bit of information is helpful rather than intrusive, and feel free to tell me to bugger off if you like.
Oh, it’s fine, I can empathise with worrying about giving advice, but it is much appreciated <3
I am usually walking around with noise-cancelling, over-ear earphones most of my waking time, ever since I realised I am autistic and not just a mess of a human being (only dived deep into the topic very recently, have gone undiagnosed up until now and am now on a waiting list for an official diagnosis in my 30s, but my current psychiatrist already agrees with my assessment, they are just not allowed to diagnose me.) Those earphones have been a lifesaver!
Unfortunately, sleeping with them doesn’t really work for me, as I am sleeping on my side, and even with small in-ear headphones, I found it just not working out the way I toss and turn from one side to the other. But I am sure your advice could be helpful to others, so don’t hold back :)
You don’t need autism to hear high pitched whining from machines. Summer people are just naturally more sensitive to higher pitches, while the older you get the less you tend to be able to hear them. To the point that some places that don’t want kids looting or ducking around will play high pitched tones over speakers that most adults can’t hear.
no but the specific sense of picking them out of literally anything. Active conversation? Music, background noise from a game or something? NOPE IT’S THE LITTLE NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND THAT’S ABNORMAL NOW.
Hypersensitivity is its own thing but the comorbidity rate with autism is huge. I’s also not always high pitches: personally I have issues with the air pressure, daylight, and many smells.
