Does anyone out there have different reactions to similar stimuli? What I mean is that I can't stand a loud, screaming child, but I love trains, and so the sound of a train whistle doesn't bother me. In addition, I sometimes laugh out loud at extreme profanity, but I hate when people are too mushy toward talking to me or praise/celebrate me.
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Stimuli Responses
- Thread starter RJ Hood
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Yeah, I used to hate getting praised as a child, somewhere along the line that stopped, I'm guessing adolescence.
The last time I remember getting really upset by a sound was someone opening up a plastic foil wrapper on a chocolate bar on a YouTube stream when I had my headphones on, it was painful! Not a nice experience at all. That was the best part of a year ago now so this sort of thing doesn't happen very often with me.
The last time I remember getting really upset by a sound was someone opening up a plastic foil wrapper on a chocolate bar on a YouTube stream when I had my headphones on, it was painful! Not a nice experience at all. That was the best part of a year ago now so this sort of thing doesn't happen very often with me.
Absolutely. I'm VERY sensitive to highly audible low and high frequency sounds.
However ones that I anticipate, and those I expect and want to hear I can tolerate far better than those which are sudden and unexpected.
Whether or not it makes any sense, it's how I react to such stimuli for better or for worse.
However ones that I anticipate, and those I expect and want to hear I can tolerate far better than those which are sudden and unexpected.
Whether or not it makes any sense, it's how I react to such stimuli for better or for worse.
Yeah, that's pretty much how I am.
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