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I know we've done this topic several years ago, but my son has been clearing his throat every fifteen seconds for like a month now, and it's driving me nuts. What are sounds or things that just drive you insane? Wet socks, a certain smell?

I cannot bear hearing people eat, specifically with their mouth open. (I think it's called misophonia?) And I do not like people in my space bubble - the six-foot COVID rule was my happy place.

What are yours?
 
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Some are fine, I get it. I am friends with several. Good people, honestly.

But stereotypical hawk fans that check all those boxes. The kind you can’t even get through a conversation without some dumb ass, unprovoked comment.
 
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I have a weird ability to just completely ignore background noise. I'll leave the wipers on for a half hour after it quits raining if I'm driving by myself before I notice it. Usually I don't think to shut them off until a passenger says something.

So things like people clearing their throat, eating with their mouth open, etc, usually just don't even register with me.

The one exception is when someone sucks in their own spit like Gail the Snail in Always Sunny.
 
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Yes @Angie, it is misophonia.

Mine is the sound of liquid being poured, specifically the glugging of wine and mic'ed up liquid sounds in commercials. The glug-glug-glug-ahhhhhhhh you hear in soda commercials makes me want to commit a murder.
 
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Angie said:
I know we've done this topic several years ago, but my son has been clearing his throat every fifteen seconds for like a month now, and it's driving me nuts. What are sounds or things that just drive you insane? Wet socks, a certain smell?

I cannot bear hearing people eat, specifically with their mouth open. (I think it's called misophonia?) And I do not like people in my space bubble - the six-foot COVID rule was my happy place.

What are yours?
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Typing on a keyboard when it's not me doing it. The slapping of someone's jaw when they chew with their mouth open.

Oh! And the sound of mac and cheese being stirred in a pot. It's a very specific sound and it grosses me out.
 
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Al_4_State said:
I have a weird ability to just completely ignore background noise. I'll leave the wipers on for a half hour after it quits raining if I'm driving by myself before I notice it. Usually I don't think to shut them off until a passenger says something.

So things like people clearing their throat, eating with their mouth open, etc, usually just don't even register with me.

The one exception is when someone sucks in their own spit like Gail the Snail in Always Sunny.
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Oh my gosh, @Jeremy used to torture me when we were kids and stuck in the car on long drives by just humming, or clicking, or making whatever sound he thought of that day to drive me nuts. I've always been really sensitive to bad smells and background noise. :shrug: I've tried to trace the origin. I have no idea why on the smells.

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Yes @Angie, it is misophonia.

Mine is the sound of liquid being poured, specifically the glugging of wine and mic'ed up liquid sounds in commercials. The glug-glug-glug-ahhhhhhhh you hear in soda commercials makes me want to commit a murder.
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Oh, for sure. I can get that. I don't like hearing people swallow in those commercials, so I get that!
 
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Angie said:
Oh my gosh, @Jeremy used to torture me when we were kids and stuck in the car on long drives by just humming, or clicking, or making whatever sound he thought of that day to drive me nuts. I've always been really sensitive to bad smells and background noise. :shrug: I've tried to trace the origin. I have no idea why on the smells.



Oh, for sure. I can get that. I don't like hearing people swallow in those commercials, so I get that!
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Women apparently have much better senses of smell than men. It's linked to some hormonal difference (no misogyny).

I have a terrible sense of smell. I would be the worst OWI cop, because I have never, not once in my life, noticed the smell of alcohol on another person. I can only smell alcohol when I hold my nose up to it. My wife, on the other hand, can smell it if I've had literally one beer. My dad's wife is the same way.

I've always suspected that my poor sense of smell is somewhat related to growing up on a farm and spending long hours in hog barns as a child, as well as handling chemicals, cleaning up rotten grain, etc.
 
A guy I used to work with (and shared a cubicle wall with) would sniffle about every 6 seconds. Non stop.

My Biology 201 Professor Dr Dolphin would clear his throat constantly, even mid word. It was annoying the first couple weeks of classes but eventually you didn’t notice it.
 
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Al_4_State said:
Women apparently have much better senses of smell than men. It's linked to some hormonal difference (no misogyny).

I have a terrible sense of smell. I would be the worst OWI cop, because I have never, not once in my life, noticed the smell of alcohol on another person. I can only smell alcohol when I hold my nose up to it. My wife, on the other hand, can smell it if I've had literally one beer. My dad's wife is the same way.

I've always suspected that my poor sense of smell is somewhat related to growing up on a farm and spending long hours in hog barns as a child, as well as handling chemicals, cleaning up rotten grain, etc.
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That makes sense that we have better senses of smell. Janny and I had a pet rabbit during our first two pregnancies, and I'm what you could call a puker when pregnant (was hospitalized for a week with our youngest). Anything would set me off... but especially smells. I'd tell him that we needed to clean the rabbit's cage because the smell was awful and made me puke, and he wouldn't smell a single thing for two or three days, then he'd figure out that I was right.

He was a farm kid, though, too - so he probably also killed his olfactory sense in childhood. I'll have to be the one sniffing our kids when they come home late in high school.
 
I don't like hearing, seeing or smelling someone vomit. Our sons learned from an early age that Dad was the one to help them. (Bless him!) I worked as an x-ray tech and loved those emesis bags that a patient could fit right up to their mouth and the bag was white so you didn't see it - I never handed them an emesis basin. Usually I was gagging while they were vomiting. LOL. Crazy thing is I had a colostomy bag break open and the contents spill out onto my white shoes (had to throw those away at the end of the day) and that never bothered me.

I do not like touching wooden spoons.

Most other things that have bothered me I've learned over the years to somehow "tune out".
 
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JP4CY said:
As a dog owner, there is no more annoying sound than hearing a dog a block away bark for hours on end, when all you want to do is sit outside and relax.
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Or 6:00 in the morning, when you're not ready to wake up.
 
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I've never been formally diagnosed, but I'm pretty certain I have vestibular hyperacusis, which is when certain sounds make you nauseous and/or dizzy.

Repetitious sounds are like kryptonite for me. Foot tapping, pen clicking, car alarms all go beyond annoyance. One night last summer, a car alarm went off for nearly 30 minutes inside a neighbors garage while they were not home (no idea why, maybe a pet stepped on a key fob or something). I started getting dizzy and felt like I wanted to throw up. I had to get in my car and leave.

When we had our daughter, I would put tape or some sort of muffling device on the speakers of some of her toys, because I couldn't handle it. I told people that if they wanted to buy a loud annoying gift for her as a joke, I would return or donate it. My SIL didn't listen, bought some obnoxious toy, and then got pissed when I asked for the receipt.

Oddly enough, I don't have an issue with loud noises like concerts or sporting events. The variety makes it fine.
 
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People that refer to themselves in the 3rd person. No joke, I actually asked to transfer positions at a job because my boss did it 5+ times daily. I literally couldn’t handle it anymore.
 
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ScottyP said:
the sound from when they scrape the tartar from your teeth at the dentist office (scaling?) I cringe when that is going on and the hygenist things I'm in pain.
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Gave this a "Like," but actually I'm the opposite -- I cannot bear having my teeth cleaned with the little electric grinder thing, so I insist on the slower, old-fashioned manual scraping -- I have sensitive teeth and gums and I get sharp pain (even with numbing) from the drill-grind thing, plus the sound reverberates in my skull.
 
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RLD4ISU said:
I don't like hearing, seeing or smelling someone vomit. Our sons learned from an early age that Dad was the one to help them. (Bless him!) I worked as an x-ray tech and loved those emesis bags that a patient could fit right up to their mouth and the bag was white so you didn't see it - I never handed them an emesis basin. Usually I was gagging while they were vomiting. LOL. Crazy thing is I had a colostomy bag break open and the contents spill out onto my white shoes (had to throw those away at the end of the day) and that never bothered me.

I do not like touching wooden spoons.

Most other things that have bothered me I've learned over the years to somehow "tune out".
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I usually am the one who cleans up vomit in our house, while diapers made me gag.
 
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