The way that glassware feels when it first comes out of the dishwasher and you’ve just washed your hands.
Children.
I’ve heard that this is instinctual. We have evolved to find crying and upset children intolerable because it motivates us to do something about it.
Children are also exceptional and figuring out how to push our buttons because they instinctively find and repeat behaviors that get a reaction out of their caregivers when they desire attention.
Unfortunately the most motivating emotions are often negative ones.
do something about it
eyes the knife drawer
Loud music in restaurants
People reacting loudly at sports (sudden clapping, yelling, etc)
Velvet
Leather not letting sweat evaporate
Advertising
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Store Music
I hate it.
Holiday music. Too repetitive.
A crowd talking.
Basically, it can be summed up as, TOO MUCH FUCKING NOISE
(I just want some silence 🥲)
When hurricane Beryl hit us, Target was on generators with very minimal lighting and no music. It was such a great shopping experience, that I flagged down the manager and asked them to do this full time.
Of course they didn’t. But man, I miss that.
There’s a supermarket nearby that has a ‘quiet hour’ every day, mostly aimed at neurodivergent customers. I try to go at that time, it’s a much less stressful experience.
earplugs have been a game changer for me. i haven’t been shopping without them for the last six months.
Some noise I do like though, if a store is dead quiet it feels like you can’t talk to anyone or even ask a vendor a question without being the attention of everyone in the surrounding area. There is a bit of privacy to a bit of noise. Though I agree to much is terrible.
I have so many. Here are some top ones:
- Grinding metal utensils on plates/teeth
- Stepping on something wet
- Motorcycles / purposefully loud exhaust mods
- Most mouth sounds in general
How do people manage to BITE a fork and drag it out? How do they not immediately blow their brains out afterwards?
Idk it hurts my skeleton just thinking about it.
The only thing worse for me is imagining the feeling of biting down on a damp popsicle stick and pulling it slowly out of your teeth.
I don’t like you
I don’t blame you
sluuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrp
Hearing the sound of people eating. Especially if it’s louder than what i would consider normal.
At one office i worked in the guy on the other side of the cubicle wall from me was a loud eater and constant snacker. Drove me insane. Sound of people eating just completely puts me on edge.
I have this happening right now. He likes crunchy food but chews it weirdly slow so the sounds happen for longer.
Me too, it makes me so irrationally angry.
If someone has the TV volume too high, I cannot focus on anything else
That was last night at the family gathering. Why was the tv volume on at all? Everyone was shouting to be heard over everyone else. The amount of questions directed at me and me not able to string two thoughts together to reply intelligently because someone turned it on some bakeoff marathon and then hid the effing remote.
Thankfully, the family understands that I’m not anti-social. I just can’t sit in a room with the TV on and two grandchildren listening to iPads all at the same time.
I have plenty of tasks in my office or in the garage.
Mouth noises and ASMR stuff. Makes me want to break things. Condition’s called misophonia.
Barking. It drives me absolutely mad.
Unfortunately in the US people are OBSESSED with dogs. Everyone has one and so many people just leave them outside to bark and bark and bark and bark and bark and… :/
I have a cat. She is currently emitting no noise and is a moderate grey color.
I read “she is emiting a moderately grey color”
That too.
If you think of how light and color works that’s pretty close to what’s going on. She’s reflecting the light wavelengths that we perceive as gray and absorbing the rest. So kind of like emitting a gray color.
This is how you can easily differentiate people and assholes. Assholes leave their dogs outside.
Cats too. Assholes who lets their cats out looooove mosquitoes.
Yeah I used to go for a walk at my old neighborhood and one dog would start barking then the next and the next and soon I would have the whole neighborhood barking just by walking around the block.
Also my old neighborhood my neighbor will leave for work at 6:00 in the morning and his dog would woefully and loudly bark for a solid hour after he left.
I hate dogs (dog owners, actually)!
Where do I even start? The one that affects me most is that I absolutely can’t stand wearing any pants at all.
I hate the texture of all sorts of porridge and oatmeal with a flaming passion. Wearing a coat indoors for more than five seconds makes me want to punch something. When you’re at a beach, come out of the water, and your feet are covered in sand. (bonus points if you’re trying to put shoes on)
Sandpaper. Dry skin. Dry clay on my skin. A lot of plastic things. Body hair touching me. Dry lips. Sleeves that are too tight around the armpits. Neon colors. Those fucking bright lights that look like they’re made for the purpose of blinding people. Flashing lights. The sound of people chewing or even swallowing loudly. Nearly all beeping sounds.
I have questions.
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Pants - Do you also not like wearing any shorts? If you don’t have any problems wearing shorts, then how long does a short have to be to stop being a short and start annoying you?
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Porridge - What about macaroni or chilli ? Do you know that jelly thing with bits of fruit chunks in it? What about that? What happens if your cereal gets too soggy?
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Coats - Do you live in a warm/humid region? How do you cope with winters when it gets cold? Does a sweater feel different than a coat?
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I’m with you on the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing.
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Sandpaper is supposed to be irritating. But is there any correlation between your thing against Sandpaper & the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing?
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Dry skin? Is it because it reminds you of Sandpaper or sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach ?
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Dry clay - again, is it correlated to the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing ?
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Plastic things? Like plastic things just existing & minding their own business or plastic things that touch your skin or the ones that you’re in contact with? What about the kind used in hospitals for IV fluids? Or the so-called BPA free that is used in takeaway containers or food storage?
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Body hair touching you - WHOSE body hair? Your own body hair or somebody else’s body hair? Does it remind you of wearing a coat? What do you do when you are trying to get physically intimate with someone? Do you avoid the hairy body parts? Aren’t they the most fun?
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Tight sleeves around the armpits - yeah, I can imagine that. Now I don’t want to imagine it anymore.
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Neon colours? - okay. To each their own.
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Yes, people using those bright lights should have Gorilla Glue put in their eyes.
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Flashing lights - Do you also not like the small twinkling fairy lights? What about blinking festival lights? Do you also not like any flashing traffic lights? Do you ignore flashing traffic lights?
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Eating or chewing loudly is a sign that you were not loved as a child. I’m with you on this.
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Beeping sounds - what do you plan to do when you have to be in a hospital? Say you have to visit the dentist & there are beeping sounds from their machines, you’ll have to bear the beeping sounds along with your toothache.
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My wife hates eating noises. I never used to notice them, but she complains a lot.
She also eats pretzels and chews ice all the time. Now it fucking annoys me.
This is a specific thing called misophonia
Mask those sounds with music or some banal tv while either of you eat. It’s been a lifesaver for me.
Just stop eating, the both of you. Problem solved!
I’ve never eaten a noise before
Dry, dirty hands after working in the garden. I mean dry.
Sharp Scrape of utensil on plate.
A thick seam on socks at the toes.
Too-tight clothing.
Repetitive noise.
Sometimes people chewing. Or talking around chewing.
- Loud conversations. If you need to speak loudly at the person right next to you, you need to get your hearing checked.
- Excessive perfume
- Bright headlights
That’s why I only install dumb headlights. Less confrontations that way.
Dry hands. I absolutely have to moisturize at all times.
-Oil/butter on the cap or outside of the bottle/container it’s in. I don’t want to feel the oil when turning the cap or opening the container.
-Spaces that ventilate so hard the air feels dry and just makes you thirsty (most retail spaces).
-New car headlights that might as well be your brights.
-Standing in shower water. I need that water to flow down the drain… if it starts backing up, I’m not showering. I’m cleaning out the drain.
-How to describe this… my feet in the winter will be cold without socks, but with socks they tend to get warm enough to sweat which then makes them cold and now wrapped in a sock. There’s no winning.
