Dragging a guitar pick up guitar strings, and touching those hologram images.
I was gonna say high freq vibration noise, but those two also give me the creeps. I think I have whatever it is you also have.
Touching cardboard, I have realized how rough and dirty it is.
Stepping on crumbs with my bare feet.
Finally!! Somebody else who hates touching cardboard! :D
I have many sensory problems, but cardboard-touching is definitely the worst.
Nail filing, chalk on chalk boards, using the eraser on chalk boards
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
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.
Bass(Musical bass), the sound of metal cutlery scrapping against themselves, and the “sss” sound that seems exaggerated for sleep related podcasts.
I can’t stand chewing noises over headphones. its fucked up to eat when your mic is on dont do it
We have one of you at our zoom COVID pub group. We try to not chew the chips and peanuts around our you but we forget. But we do think about your issue all the time. Sorry.
Chewing gauze or tissue. Yes I had my wisdoms removed recently.
Felt fabric
Fibers snagging on a chewed or broken nail
Microfiber towels sticking to dry skin on your hands like velcro. Soggy sandwich bread. The way cotton balls feel and sound when you pull them apart. Non-skid on bare feet. Wooden utensils or popsicle stick wood on my tongue. Being touched by dogs with wet beards. Trying to sleep in bed with dirty feet. Synthetic fragrances.
I’m sure there’s more.
I kind of understand why these things bother you. They don’t really bother me, except the synthetic fragrances, but I can get the gist. It’s kind of weird.
Mouth noises and ASMR stuff. Makes me want to break things. Condition’s called misophonia.
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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When you’re at the beach or some body of water and the dirt, mud, or sand gets on your hands, you get out of the water and start to dry off. I despise the feeling when your hands dry out.
Dry hands. I absolutely have to moisturize at all times.
