Sensory problems with sound

[Hi-c@]

have problems w sound,specialty sudden sounds, like donks,and clunks,in maine or major bangs, car-motors/engine outside the aphartmen, assholy neighbors "fixing" their apartments or just clonking arund, don't know wich is wich all the time, it's a range betwen stuff that others wouldn't care about and things that makes everybody react with some level of irritation.

For me it generats anxiety, i haved moved sevreal times and got my main rom isoleted but it dosent do it,

one of the major part of the problem is that it seems so b based anxiety and i have hard time to understand that part of the same feelings i had for bullies in school is inside the problem.

The feeling is that i can't let my neighbors decide how i should live my day, similar to the wen teachers told me to just ignore the bullies (i know that my neighbor aren't doing this to bully me or in my direction in any way) but the feeling is the same, i have to listen to music when i really don't feel like it because someone else feels like clonking/donking/sounding abit. tried different earplugs but in contrast to the music, the lower noise i hear wen i use them reminds me more then ever of the sound sensitivity, my neigbers. Music has a larger tendensi to disctrakt me that why i use that insted of earplugs.

This migt even sound more strange , the distubtion isent consent (al the time) (and it almost makes it wors) i ofen stop the protection: music by headphones, and efter a short or longer time its starts again and wen it dose and the disturbing sound dosent stop shortly it's like not having ur umbrella abovu u in a case of a suden major rain. Im tootely "wet" by the feelings of anxiety, i didnt use the headphones cos i didnt feel like litsing to music and hope the problem wod stop in some min, but it didnt and im scrud again.

 

[Elemental]

Worst noise for me is the ride-on mower that gets used back of my home, about once a week. It's REALLY loud & as it goes up one way, the noise gets less then as it's coming back it's louder & louder until it feels like it's going through me. There was sweeping going on for ages outside yesterday & I found the property owner going all round my yard space so I politely asked if he would not do that; it's my own yard space & I'll look after it. It's too close.

 

[Hi-c@]

the ride-on mower sound oful almost as i feel abute vacuumcleaners, but i'm confronted with VC's alot more then w r-o-m's so i hate them more.
gr8 that u made it stop =), I tried to talk to one of my nigbergs and this was when he was doing wors stuff then now :
drilling in concrete wall several days a week, but he just yelled at me, and the company that i rent from more or less sed that they cant do anything as long as the distortion isn't "after hours"

 

[Elemental]

That's quite harsh, maybe you can get to moving somewhere quieter at some point though I know that's not easy? I have no noise complaint except that mower really so I'm very lucky. Some places I lived drove me nuts with traffic, music, door slamming etc.

 

[Hi-c@]

moved 3 times for this reason( the first tme i was luky 2 yers w no prob) . but it's hard to know in the showing of the new apartment, if it will be a problem. so the alternative wod b like a house that is not in my economical reach.

 

[Elemental]

I understand. I moved from a city to a small town hundreds of miles away & then my different rentals were within a couple miles outside of a town like now. This is about the best it's got tbh. I often get restless & think I can find better but that's not necessarily true.

 

[Datura]

Oh man, you would hate to live next to me. I come from a household of rock musicians, so things get loud. I also took out some pots the other day and had my own private jam session. I am very noisy.
But at least I am not living in an apartment, I would never be that inconsiderate.

With the recent change in my meds though I have noticed that my senses have changed. Abrupt sounds, even small ones, elicit a stronger startle response than before. When I am in a busy environment it is also as though somebody has remixed the entire audio track of my life. All of the background noise is louder, and much more to the fore. In a waiting room, which I never considered especially noisy I was suddenly picking up on all kinds of little footsteps, people typing, air vents, doors opening and closing, various simultaneous conversations... It was a veritable cacophony! This was accompanied by the increased photosensitivity I sometimes experience, where it hurts to look at light and can bring on a headache.

 

[Hi-c@]

ofc when i'm the one doing the disturbing noise it's not as disturbing for me,if i have to move furniture or use the hammer to put up stuff on the wall (this is except the vacumclener,drill machine that i hate even if i'm the one using it).

It's a very different feeling just listening to the base sound (true the wall) in music , then a more direct listening, the first one is i would say more irritating, ofc i don't want to tear that my wall

abute medicin, i'm wondring abute if energydriks coffe, makes it wors (i know that it givs me and other a higer anxaety level) but i'm wondering if esser for me to lose focus and detect/react on disturbance easier. i'm taking ritalina now 2 ( which means i take less energy drinks than before/day) but it doesn't seem to "cut it"

 

[Progster]

Yes, I experience this problem too. It's summer, but I can't leave my windows open because of the noise coming from outside. I also have to wear earplugs to sleep.

My neighbours have a dog, which they allow to roam at will. It never stops barking! Because of this dog, I had to move my work room from the front of the house to the back. Even then, I can still hear it and it still irritates me. I don't understand how this doesn't seem to affect other people. My partner complains about it, but it doesn't affect him to the same degree as it affects me. It may irritate him, but he can still go about his business, but I can't!

 

[Kari Suttle]

I have noise issues too, always have. I keep music and tv volume normal for me but to others its low. Normal house noises and neighborhood cars driving by will bug me at night, so i sleep with a box fan. Sudden sounds have always made me jump and it wasn't until i started work part time as a cashier that i started to get over this, since people drop stuff all the time at Walmart and only sometimes does it warrant my jumping and turning to the source of the sound to figure out what it was. At home just put headphones in and listen to music to block out noise if its bugging me, and at my cashier job i've learned to hyperfocus on the current customer im checking out and that will by default tune out everything else. I got constant panic attacks at work on the register until i figured that out.

 

[DogwoodTree]

Barking dogs for me, too...and the bouncing of a basketball...and when the kids start arguing with each other. And sound of someone who sniffles over and over without getting a tissue.

White noise works better for me than music does. YouTube has some really good white noise videos, like a rippling stream or ocean waves. That's what I have to use.

 

[Warmheart]

For me, it's the background noise of people chatting overloading my senses as I struggle to listen to a convo that drives me batty.

How about a comfortable, affordable, lightweight pair of foam earplugs? You can still hear a bit, but it is gentler, less abrupt/jarring. I am wishing you a sense of peace in your home environment.

 

[Hi-c@]

thx

 

[Dirtdigger]

Actually I can tolerate continuous sounds pretty good such as lawn mowers and car motors. It is the intermittent sounds like barking dogs, bouncing basketballs, loud car radios, nailing, etc.. I can even feel the sounds through my body. And here lately with that little asswipe across the street throwing his basket on the cement or pavement as hard as he can to see what kind of damage he can do to make me go into sensory overload has caused me to have depression and feeling pretty suicidal. I tried compromising with his mother and she got all up in my face and nasty because the kid wouldn't talk to me. It was especially bad when there was other kids over there with this little asswipe. He just turned his nose up at the police and continued on. I finally turned to the School Corporation today as a last resort and they have agree to help me after I told them I was Autistic with SPD. I will be in contact a little longer with the School Corporation. I've just really been out of it and had to endure this for almost 2 years. But the police will have to do something about loud car radios and dogs when they bark excessively since we have ordinances for both.


Because I feel certain sounds as well as hearing them, I even have to deal with the popping sounds from electronics cooling down in my bedroom. Those little sounds aren't very loud but they are painful if that makes any sense.

 

[BIMOG]

I spend almost all of my waking hours listening to music through headphones and I still get bothered by extraneous noises. Without the headphones and the music I'd go crazy.

 

[Progster]

For me, it's the background noise of people chatting overloading my senses as I struggle to listen to a convo that drives me batty.

How about a comfortable, affordable, lightweight pair of foam earplugs? You can still hear a bit, but it is gentler, less abrupt/jarring. I am wishing you a sense of peace in your home environment.

I have this issue with people talking at once too, I think because my brain doesn't know what to pay attention too, so it tries to pay attention to all the speakers at once. It's an unpleasant sensation, severe discomfort verging on panic. It's worse if it's happening on TV because all voices are the same volume, so I hate talk shows or debates on TV where they are all talking at once, they really overload me.

I can also hear vehicle breaks screeching from all over town. The car may be a mile away, but I can hear it as if it were bang next to me. I can hear other distant sounds loud and clear too, especially metallic ones like keys.

I hate noise