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whats worse for you a consistent noise or an inconstant noise?

for me its inconstant noise like crying baby's and stuff like that. I have no problems with consistent noise, for example I like the sounds of a large diesel engine and can listen to one all day no problem.

It depends on whether the noise is expected and how loud it is.

Inconsistant noises like loud cheering or yelling are far more distressing than consistant ones. I personally enjoy the "predictability" of machine gun fire and air raid sirens.

inconsistent for sure, although I'd say whether or not the noise is expected is a much larger factor (they do go together though, since unexpected noise tends to be inconsistent)

I don't care for either, depending on the situation. I do have ear plugs I wear that lower the decibels by 10 to help. If they're unexpected noises I have more of a reaction to them.

Inconsistent and unpredictable loud noises, can also be something simple as the revs of a car, those never sound the same to me...

I can handle loud music as long as it isn't really high pitched treble or mega low bass. High treble noises sends me nuts and I have a meltdown. TVs I can handle and gaming consoles even if they are on in the background I find it soothing listening to the TV for hours on end it stops my anxiety attacks. Am/Fm Radios I can handle as well and I have the radio on 24/7 whether its talk back radio or 80s music. I also have the Uhf radio going as well which I can handle going in the background. Listening to airplanes landing and taking off, the sound of a classic airplane spitfire, hurricane, P51 Mustang, Fa18 Hornet, F1-11 and the sound of a V8 supercar Holden.

Unexpected noises are likely to derail any neurological makeup. Unless there are sounds that come from nowhere and take a long time stopping; ringing telephones, car alarms, backup beepers, power tools, police helicopters. sirens, engine exhausts (Doppler effect sometimes has me feeling my brain is going to fall out the back of my head), droning wings of flying insects, murders of crows cawing, the usual loud human vocalizations

The constant sounds like booming bass from several blocks away, TV turned up too loud and the music volume at some shops

Then there are some things that depend on time of day and proximity; during the day it is extremely annoying to have a freight train going by 10 feet away, yet at night and a few hundred yards away it is a comforting sound

It depends. I need consistent noise from my giant fan to sleep, so it doesn't bother me. However, something like a barking dog can drive me nuts. I also can get a little freaked out if I hear a sudden loud bang because it makes me afraid that it is gunfire. Having found a bullet hole in my house a few months back (it went through 3 surfaces in a line, and came from the sky, so it had to be one), I am now afraid that anything I hear could be some idiot redneck shooting off their weapon in the sky. I am not anti-gun, but I am anti-stupid.

silence is another thing, if I dont have a tv on or something else to make noise my hearing just keeps getting more sensitive. so any noise is way more intense

It depends on a number of factors such as pitch, volume, background noise etc. It alo depends on how I am managing that day, I have some days when I am even more hypersensitive and on those days even small things can push me into complete meltdown, on other days they'd be really uncomortable and make me jump but I wouldn't meltdown.
I'm a big fan of ear plugs, ear defenders and having an Ipod. I wear ear plugs every night to sleep, I always wear head phones on the bus and on a bad day I wear the ear defenders over the headphones because I can't deal with the loud noise plus the music where as with the ear defenders I can listen to quiet music without any background sounds adding too the volume else it's too loud. I also wear ear defenders when I need quiet and there is background sounds I can't cope with. I sometimes wear them when I have to walk by a road and it's a bad day, it helps to stop the cars being too loud and helps to stop me getting worked up.

Bear in mind that I've never been diagnosed and don't know if I have Aspergers or not. Some days I think it quite likely, other days I'm not so sure.

Most of the time noise doesn't bother me much. But sometimes I can be sitting somewhere with a lot of low level background noise, for example normal restaurant noises with people calmly talking at tables around me, and all of a sudden it feels like the noise level goes up by thirty or forty or more decibels. It suddenly becomes so loud and aggravating that I can't really distinguish between the noises I'm hearing and can't concentrate on what anyone is saying.

Is this the way noise usually affects people who are sensitive to it? Or is it like that all of the time?

It happened to me a few minutes ago with just music from one of the DirectTV music channels. The music level was quite reasonable for a while, but then it got much louder and very aggravating so I turned the volume to nearly off. It hardly sounded like music at all or like loud and very irritatingly shrill music from very damaged speakers.

I freak out when my boyfriend's snoring gets really loud.

Sometimes I try to tolerate it but it grates on my nerves and I start getting panic attacks, then I'd have to nudge him awake to stop it.