Sounds I hate

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Ever watch Gage (Randolph Mantooth) on "Emergency?"

He seemed like the hypersensitive type. But he was a darn good paramedic!

My top two are kids screaming, crying or screeching, & cats meowing.

Doorbells. I don't much like the sound of people knocking on doors, because its always an unwelcome interruption, but the sound of a doorbell is like a Taser to me, even if its on television. I do often notice faint, hi-pitched sounds in my environment, that most people don't hear at all, but they're only a problem if they're regular and persistent.

Right now I am going insane from upstairs neighbors and their inconsiderate hip-hop thumping on my ceiling at ungodly hours of the night. Talk about your obnoxious noises you can't control. I complained to management and of course, its just become a ridiculous he-said, she-said melee of finger-pointing and deflection and nothing is being done to stop it. I can't sleep normally, even on the nights it doesn't happen, because of the anxiety of anticipating when it will start up again. Moving is not an option, or I'd be living in a house in the country. This is turning my living space into a torture chamber.

Dogs barking
Food chewing
Balloons popping
Joggers snaking up behind me and saying, "to the right" to let them pass. This makes me jump out of my skin.
Nails on a chalkboard
Some telephones, esp. the bell kind. They're too loud and startle me.
Some cell phone alarms. They're too loud and startle me.
Generally snoring doesn't bother me unless it's too loud then I have to leave.
Car hons honking. I yell profanities when I hear those while driving. They're very distracting.
Babies crying. This will make me leave the room every time.

1. Espresso machines operated by kids who don't know how to do so.

2. The cacophony of trendy restaurants and cafes which use the chrome, tile and steel noise-reducing strategies of your average high-school cafeteria.

3. Cars that go boom.

4. Cars without standard mufflers and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

5. Oblivious Bluetooth zombies and other loud talkers.

Chewing... I have to use major "mind over matter" to get through meals with my family and I actually encourage my kids to be noisy at the table because it helps mask the awful eating noises. My husband's chewing noises make me especially want to scream.

I have this very specific thing I hate which is both a sound/feeling thing... it's when a pencil eraser is low, and whoever is trying to erase winds up scraping against the paper with that bit of metal that holds the eraser onto the paper. If it's I who accidentally does it, I can actually feel it up my arm like an electric shock. If it's someone else, I imagine I can still "feel" it and it makes me shiver. It's a sound (when someone else does it), but also an imagined feeling.

Gardening and construction noises from the neighborhood make me want to go on a rampage.

I can also hear high pitches better than most people so things like cheap lights and cheap cables most people don't even notice can be "deal breakers" for me to even be in the same room.

I feel the same way on my job, Street Medic--but it's not as important as your job.

At least you've succeeded as a paramedic. If you could succeed as that, you could surely succeed in an academic setting--where many people are noise-sensitive and Aspie (or Aspie-like).

You don't have to allow eating in your class should you become a professor (though that might turn off some students).

Vacuum cleaners, gas engines (cars aren't so bad as long as they aren't loud, mostly it's things like lawnmowers and such), yelling, nails on a chalk board or similar noises.

I hate anything having to do with chalk or a chalkboard, sight, sound, or touch. I hate to just hear someone WRITE on a chalkboard. One day last week I was watching a movie, someone started writing on a chalkboard in the movie and I nearly fell out of my chair.

I also hate the sound of someone writing with a pencil. Or using sandpaper. I hate any sound that sounds DRY and/or reminds me of having to touch something that is DRY. I especially hate the sound of paper tearing.

I hate the way sounds all mix together in a noisy restaurant, people talking too loud, things clattering. That can send me into a rage.

I hate the sound of most pop music from at least the last 15 years or so, or any TV shows or movies that have a similar aesthetic.