Sounds that you cannot STAND!! ! grrrr!! !

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There are more than a few I can't stand but the one that get me the most is the sound of a door getting slammed shut.

nail filing and sandpapering by hand (electric sanders go fast enough and have noisy motors so that the sound isn't the same and doesn't bother me)

also, the bass from music being played or TV being watched by the neighbors, no matter how quiet it is, when it filters through the walls -- I feel like my brain is always trying to figure out what song it is or what is being said, so it's just too distracting and awful

- The sound of shower water, vacuum cleaner, or any other lasting monotone noise
- Any loud unexpected sounds (making me startle)
- High-pitched human voices, especially if the person speaking is nervous or agitated (and, the worst thing is that it's my mother's normal mode of speaking)
- Many people talking around

The sound that bothers me the most at the moment is a rotating shelf at work screeching every time somebody rotates it. The sound is very, very high pitched. The strange thing is that others can't hear it. I asked many colleagues, whether the sound bothered them, and they didn’t hear it, even when I pointed the time it was to be heard. The high pitched sound hurts my ears even in the second floor (of an open area), where I work, and if I go downstairs and stand next to it, the sound becomes unbearable. The funny thing is that there are several people downstairs working besides the source of the sound all day without even noticing. I can’t understand…!

Generally I seem to be hypersensitive to high pitched sounds. Very low but loud sounds like motorbikes are also unpleasant, but those sounds are usually not painful in the same sense (like somebody sticking a sharp needle to your brain via ear). Low and loud sounds cause more like a feeling of high pressure being applied to the ear.

Metal on metal or metal on glass e.g. silverware against a plate.

Also, the sound of that six year old little girl who did black metal on America's Got Talent who received 14,000,000 views. Glad she went home!

when people slam the doors of a vehicle I am sitting in.

Vacuum cleaners, yes, I hate them too. Water running from the shower or simply from the tap (and when it's dripping it's even worse). Paper rustling.
But most of all - people chewing food, or slurping, or... well, any sounds they make while eating or drinking.

Vacuum cleaners
Weed eaters
Lawn mowers
screaming
whispering
babies crying
Lots of people talking at once
any high-pitched squeaking noise
brakes on cars or trains
the sound of people kissing
people eating or drinking loudly
dogs barking
balloons being rubbed together
when people have their radio up to loud and you can hear the bass from a mile away
any loud or unexpected sound
the worse of them all is the sound my rat makes when she tries to get a drink and her water bottle has gone empty. Instant rage right there.

wow,theres a lot of autists with hyperacusis here,the self is included in that.

am going to add babies/toddlers when they scream/do any sort of loud vocal noise,to this list.

having two nieces now-both two or under,have learned to understand children better,it took a long time to get to the point was interacting with them and giving a damn about them, but now its a lot easier to cope because am able to understand that they struggle to express how they feel and communicate as well and all the tantrumming and noise they do is because of the impact of emotional regulation and communication difficulties on them.
though am not a good influence on the older girl because she is picking her nose constantly which her mum shouts about,and is now head banging thanks to seeing auntie em do it to many times.

another thing am not a fan of and havent seen mentioned here yet, lawnmowers;especialy when some pillock seems to purposely time it with us going past them...its funny because used to be really into music-then had developed profound hyperacusis through brain injury which affected ability to listen to music at any volume at all,so when these boy racers go around in their scrap yard crapmobiles with their blazin pa systems booming out the latest piece of sht am sent smack straight to the kerb either in a vestibular hyperacusis drop,a epileptic seizure,or blind sensory overload with a head bang fest because its so bloody agonising.

one more thing...teenage girls.
or more dangerously,a gaggle of teenage girls.
just shut the feck up,please,for the love of humanity.
we have a high school several buildings away from us and we get them all hanging out,outside our carpark,the bedroom window of mine is ground floor based so am on a level with these individuals,they scream and scream and scream again-usualy it is to tell their mate something when theyre stood next to each other.
if we wanted fog horns outside the building we woud have moved to a bloody ship yard.

I have a relative that when she talks, her voice is so stentorian that it makes me feel like jumping out of my skin. her voice is like an air horn.

There are many noises that I can't stand but I'm just going to say the ones I have to hear on a daily basis:

Coffee bean grinder
Dogs barking
Slamming doors
People stomping when they walk
Dishes hitting each other
Putting a dish down on granite countertops
Squeaking doors

I have to say, by far the worst for me is people eating crunchy food. Oh my god I want to kill them! Aagh! Strangely, most other sounds I'm not so bothered by, unless they're particularly distracting. I think I'm a bit of a sensory seeker, because I like to have loud music (though I very rarely do for fear of missing something important like a call or urgent message)

Ticking clocks!
Also slamming doors
people sniffing or chewing gum
loud conversations on public transport - I cannot commute without headphones because other people's convos drive me nuts!

Two people whispering/gossiping behind or around me. God, i want to decapitate them with a piece of paper when i hear that.