Feelin a lot like this lately

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Some of that shit does it to me. I can't stand people smacking food, or sirens if they get too close.
A lot of this neurological stuff is poorly understood - I can't wear clothing with stiff tags, either, it feels like pins sticking in me and actually leaves a red rash, but I don't fit the ADHD profile.

Where's Nigel? She's usually got insights into these things.

Sensory sensitivities often coexist with ADHD but also occur independently of it. Sometimes they're related to sensory integration disorder, which is very poorly understood and may or may not be related to autism spectrum disorders and/or synaesthesia.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Some of that shit does it to me. I can't stand people smacking food, or sirens if they get too close.
A lot of this neurological stuff is poorly understood - I can't wear clothing with stiff tags, either, it feels like pins sticking in me and actually leaves a red rash, but I don't fit the ADHD profile.

Where's Nigel? She's usually got insights into these things.

Sensory sensitivities often coexist with ADHD but also occur independently of it. Sometimes they're related to sensory integration disorder, which is very poorly understood and may or may not be related to autism spectrum disorders and/or synaesthesia.

Funny you mention that, because my son has a wide scatter of symptoms that present kind of like Asperger's, but he's been tested and he doesn't have it.

When he was little, the doctors used to ask if he was sensitive to tags...he's not, I am. I never thought about it until they started asking me that and I found out it was related to funny wiring. Maybe some of us are like carriers, I don't know.

[trippinprincezz13]

I thought this was... well anyway:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06annoy.html

Very much this article. I used to yell at my brother when we were younger and it still drives me crazy. At work, I've had attorneys call to talk to my boss or leave a message and I can hear them eating over the phone and HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU DO THAT. I hate the sound of ME eating, but I can at least try to control how much noise I make. But there's no nice way to say JESUS FUCKING CHRIST CAN YOU NOT CHEW SO FUCKING LOUD and it's not something I want to start a fight over. But even last night my bf was driving me crazy and I had to get up and wash dishes in the other room until he was done eating so I couldn't hear anything. My reaction/lack of tolerance for it is getting worse. I either have to do this

As a young adolescent at the dinner table, Heidi Salerno tried to discreetly plug her ears or chew in sync with others so her own chewing noises would drown theirs out.

or sit in a ball of irrational anger until it stops.

That and at work if I'm not working on a dictation or on the phone, I need to have music on or the clock ticking, lights buzzing and computer humming would drive me crazy. But that might not be the same thing.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Phones ringing piss me off, but that's more of a Pavlovian thing.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Phones ringing piss me off, but that's more of a Pavlovian thing.

Agree...for every great call, you get at least 20 assholes.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Phones ringing piss me off, but that's more of a Pavlovian thing.

Agree...for every great call, you get at least 20 assholes.

Well, at work people call me for stupid shit, when I'm trying to fuck off here.

At home, people from work call me for stupid shit, always when I'm busy doing something.  Sometimes when I'm busy doing something with somebody, if you catch my drift.  Then they get all pissy when I don't answer or call back for an hour or so.

It's to the point where, when my phone goes off, I go into full potato Tourette's mode.

But again, that's learned behavior, not what Squiddy is talking about.  I get the same thing she gets, but only when people slurp on a straw.  And sometimes when my FiL saws through his food and his knife rasps on the plate.  WTF, man!  It's a steak, not a redwood!

The straw thing is so bad that I have to leave when people do it.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Phones ringing piss me off, but that's more of a Pavlovian thing.

Agree...for every great call, you get at least 20 assholes.

Well, at work people call me for stupid shit, when I'm trying to fuck off here.

At home, people from work call me for stupid shit, always when I'm busy doing something.  Sometimes when I'm busy doing something with somebody, if you catch my drift.  Then they get all pissy when I don't answer or call back for an hour or so.

It's to the point where, when my phone goes off, I go into full potato Tourette's mode.

But again, that's learned behavior, not what Squiddy is talking about.  I get the same thing she gets, but only when people slurp on a straw.  And sometimes when my FiL saws through his food and his knife rasps on the plate.  WTF, man!  It's a steak, not a redwood!

The straw thing is so bad that I have to leave when people do it.

Food-smacking gives me visions of what would make that noise in someone like Eldora's crack and other random horrors.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Food smacking doesn't bother me at all.

One thing that DOES bother me, though, is people interrupting me while I'm typing.  Even if they're not being rude.  Drives me bugshit, no matter what they're interrupting for.  Building's on fire, you say?  Fuck off, can't you see I'm busy?

[Elder Iptuous]

audible chewing makes all my neck and shoulder muscles clench up, and feels very much like confinement/claustrophobia anxiety.
i think that's not too uncommon, and i'm always paranoid about chewing too loudly around people because i don't want to make them feel the way i often do.

Protip: have a couple kids and it drowns out every sound of mastication possible at the dinner table.  at least you'll be pulling your hair out for a new set of reasons.

[Eater of Clowns]

Wow I'm the person you all hate for chewing noises.

I CAN'T HELP IT, I HAVE A BIG FUCKING MOUTH.  SHIT ECHOES IN THERE.

Every time I bite a potato chip, plaster crumbles from the ceiling EVEN IF THERE ISN'T A PLASTER CEILING.  If I eat cereal, you can watch ripples appear in your glasses of water.  Whenver I eat almonds the windows rattle.  GOD HELP YOU IF I EAT A CRUNCH BAR.

[Elder Iptuous]

Wow I'm the person you all hate for chewing noises.

I CAN'T HELP IT, I HAVE A BIG FUCKING MOUTH.  SHIT ECHOES IN THERE.

Every time I bite a potato chip, plaster crumbles from the ceiling EVEN IF THERE ISN'T A PLASTER CEILING.  If I eat cereal, you can watch ripples appear in your glasses of water.  Whenver I eat almonds the windows rattle.  GOD HELP YOU IF I EAT A CRUNCH BAR.

do you make that subtle back of the throat grunting noise that old men sometimes make while chewing?  that's like a force multiplier.  if you don't, you should pick that one up.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Crunching is tolerable.
IT'S THAT GODDAMN SMACKING. EW EW EW.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I'm gonna wrote a paper about your things, Squiddy, it's fascinating! I have a sensitivity to sounds, especially repetitive sounds, and I cannot deal with listening to someone eat in an otherwise quiet room, and oh my god the TV being on all the time and cell phone blinging (it drives me fucking CRAZY when someone has their phone on them and it keeps making noise... turn off the sound, fucko, you keep checking it constantly anyway and there are other people in the world who don't need to know you got a fucking text) and all that shit irritates the fuck out of me. But nothing near the level you describe, and plus I like music.

Apparently some 60% or so of sufferers also have tinitis (sp)
My ears ring in and out randomly and my mom's are so bad that she can't hear the squealing sound of her tv. Though I sure as hell can.

The problem I'm finding is the adrenaline. I can't keep this build up held in all day, it's causing other health issues and I'm losing my temper more frequently. Also the depression. Oooooh the self loathing.

Protip: have a couple kids and it drowns out every sound of mastication possible at the dinner table.  at least you'll be pulling your hair out for a new set of reasons.

FUCK THAT my kid makes enough noises!!

Wow I'm the person you all hate for chewing noises.

I CAN'T HELP IT, I HAVE A BIG FUCKING MOUTH.  SHIT ECHOES IN THERE.

Every time I bite a potato chip, plaster crumbles from the ceiling EVEN IF THERE ISN'T A PLASTER CEILING.  If I eat cereal, you can watch ripples appear in your glasses of water.  Whenver I eat almonds the windows rattle.  GOD HELP YOU IF I EAT A CRUNCH BAR.

You sir, are my new nemesis.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Wow I'm the person you all hate for chewing noises.

I CAN'T HELP IT, I HAVE A BIG FUCKING MOUTH.  SHIT ECHOES IN THERE.

Every time I bite a potato chip, plaster crumbles from the ceiling EVEN IF THERE ISN'T A PLASTER CEILING.  If I eat cereal, you can watch ripples appear in your glasses of water.  Whenver I eat almonds the windows rattle.  GOD HELP YOU IF I EAT A CRUNCH BAR.

do you make that subtle back of the throat grunting noise that old men sometimes make while chewing?  that's like a force multiplier.  if you don't, you should pick that one up.

the thought of that turned my stomach enough to push out a belch.

[Elder Iptuous]

Wow I'm the person you all hate for chewing noises.

I CAN'T HELP IT, I HAVE A BIG FUCKING MOUTH.  SHIT ECHOES IN THERE.

Every time I bite a potato chip, plaster crumbles from the ceiling EVEN IF THERE ISN'T A PLASTER CEILING.  If I eat cereal, you can watch ripples appear in your glasses of water.  Whenver I eat almonds the windows rattle.  GOD HELP YOU IF I EAT A CRUNCH BAR.

do you make that subtle back of the throat grunting noise that old men sometimes make while chewing?  that's like a force multiplier.  if you don't, you should pick that one up.

the thought of that turned my stomach enough to push out a belch.

The though of your belch made me wretch up a little bile that make a wet *pop* noise as it reached my palate.