I HATE Screaming Children, Crying Babies and Barking Dogs

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Screaming. Children. Drive. Me. INSANSE. I go absolutely batty whenever a kid throws a fit and starts to cry; I sincerely feel like walking over with a handy bottle of chloroform and a rag. And yeah, NTs do not understand it's not the child I hate, and that I do understand sometimes the child or infant can't help it (though a good fair few times the kid's just being a whiny idiot about something ), the sound just drives me up the wall! It's not really something I can help, the sound makes me want to bash my head against a wall repeatedly. Barking dogs aren't so bad for me.

Correct. Yes a dog or a baby can learn to not make noise, but they lack the cognitive function to understand that there are more effective means of communicating their needs.

A child knows better, and I presume "screaming child" means a snot-nosed brat that throws a tantrum to get what they want rather than asking politely and if told "no" deal with it.

I am most tolerant of a barking dog because at least a noisy dog has a value (scares off thieves...alerts you of something's going on outside).

How can infants possibly tell their parents what they want if they can't cry? Crying is the only way they can tell people what they want. As they get older, they cry less. An 18 month old can just walk up to the mother and climb up on the couch and snuggle with her for love, an infant can't do that so they have to cry to get their parents to come and hold them. When they start to crawl, they can crawl over to their parents if they are in the same room. I've seen babies crawling over to their moms or dads. A two year old can say they are hungry or they want water or juice, an infant can't say those words yet so they cry. A three year old can say their tummy hurts or their ears hurt etc. but not infants so they cry. Of course toddlers can still cry when they are in pain but they are able to use words still.

But infants and one year olds do make noise for no reason when they are happy because they don't understand they need to be quiet so people can enjoy their time. That's why you don't want to bring them to a play and when you are at a movie or at a school concert, you have to take them out to the lobby when they get disruptive and you can't get up in the middle of the play like you can at a movie so it's best to leave your baby home with a baby sitter. You can't just tell them to be quiet because they won't listen. They don't have that cognitive function yet to know they can't be so loud at those places. At least they do have the cognitive function to cry to let their parents know what they want. Ones who don't ever ever cry is something to be concerned about. It may be peace for the parents because it meant they won't intertupt them or wake them up at night but still something is wrong then if they aren't ever crying. That's something that happens in babies with Angleman syndrome because one of my teachers had a great niece with it and she was diagnosed with it at three months because she never cried. She was so happy all the time. My teacher told me people with it are happy all the time, I read kids with it are known as little puppets or something.

My mother told me lot of people get annoyed with babies when they start crying or get disruptive but they mostly get mad at the parents and get frustrated at them for not taking their child to the lobby or up to the front of the restuarant and wait until they are done crying and being so loud. That's why I have seen mothers picking their babies up in restuarants and leaving the table when they start crying. So it's not just aspies who get annoyed by crying or screaming babies, regular people get annoyed by them too. They also get annoyed by screaming children and they don't like seeing a child throwing a tantrum. My mother once told me a story when I was eight how my brothers and I were running around at the Red Lion restuarant and we upset this old lady there who was eating because we were loud and we ran around. She said I was eight when we did that and I had no memory of it but what's funny is my mother has no memory of that happening or even telling me this. We were just being typical children because we were probably bored because we were done eating and they weren't. I doubt my mother let us run wild because that isn't like her. I'm sure she kept telling us to sit down and stop running around and making so much noise but it was hard for us to listen.

Regular people also get annoyed by barking dogs, that's why you bring your dog in at night when they start barking because you be getting pounding on your front door or your doorbell being rang by angry neighbors.

I wasn't trying to imply that there is something wrong with an infant crying. I understand that's how each of us begin to learn to communicate our needs.

You are right that NT people are just as annoyed with crying infants. In a polite society, you do not go out with infants or young children until they have learned enough self-control to behave themselves in public.

Today, parents are either to lazy or misinformed to discipline their kids, and it shows. They also think they have a right to impose on other people trying to enjoy something by dragging their screaming spawn everywhere they go.

My parents (before VCR and color TV) didn't go to movies, concerts, parties, etc. until they could either trust my sister and I with a babysitter or until we could come along and behave appropriately.

And I remember many, many spankings for acting up. My sister and I learned quickly to mind our parents in public. I went to some very nice places long before I reached 10 years of age because my parents taught me there was a time and a place for certain behaviors...and I would get a whipping if I didn't abide by that rule.

When the kids across the street or next door start screaming or the dogs start barking I go crazy yelling of how annoyed I am then either my father or mother come into my room to yell at me for freaking out!

Not to mention sometimes I hit my head, which is NOT good!

Out of all those, I'd find crying babies the most annoying and stressful. Kids screaming and making a noise for no apparent reason also annoy me. Babies wailing and children running around in restaurants drive me insane, especially when the parents don't seem to have any regard whatsoever for the other people who have to put-up with their hellspawn.

People having ridiculously loud conversations is another one which really irks me.

I have neighbors next door to our apartment and their kids make noise when they play outside. It bothers my bf because it keeps him up when he tries to sleep because he works swingshift. Now he got laid off due to medical problems.
One of our neighbors in our apartment building has two young kids on the weekends with him and they make lot of noise too when they run out in the hallway.


I disagree with about not taking your kids out in public until they learn to behave. I mean are parents supposed to leave them with baby sitters when they go shopping or out to eat or to a movie or when they have to run an errand or want to rent a movie, etc.? You do bring your crying babies out to the lobby when you see a movie, same as in restuarants you bring them to the front of the restuarant. I know there are certain places you shouldn't bring them too such as plays, fancy restuarants unless they understand they have to behave and not be so loud.

Luckily they don't bother me, I just ignore them understanding I was a kid one time and I also ran around and made noise when I was little because I got bored or excited or I was just having fun. Same as when they play in their yard, I don't expect them to be quiet like they are mute. I know people be bothered if they made those noises late at night because they be trying to sleep. My mother didn't allow my brothers and I to play outside so late at night and she tell us to be quiet when we check into a hotel late at night. We both run down the halls and start making noise and our parents tell us "Shhh people are sleeping" they say the same in the hotel room too. They also didn't let us get too wild. I once had to deliver a mini frige to one of the hotel rooms at work and they had kids and they were all jumping around, making lot of noise and they were even up on the ledge. I knew our mother wouldn't have let my brothers and I get that wild in the room, even if it was day time. Those kids even broke something in there and left a huge mess. The room attendant was pissed and felt like she wanted to slap the parents for not doing their job. She was mostly mad at the parents than at their kids. I mean the family rented two rooms and one room was for their kids while the other room was for themselves. I told her they were just lazy parents or they just didn't care because it wasn't their home so they thought they can just take advantage of the hotel. Now they were left with something to pay their children broke.

I hate crying/screaming babies. It drives me nuts. When babies cry on the subway I always switch trains.

I hate screaming babies but I found much worse sound of demolition breaker or impact drill.

My dad told me there was home videos of me when I was little and all the kids would be running around playing and I'd be sitting there looking annoyed. I ALWAYS hated loud noises, I used to cover my ear whenever the teacher would yell at the class or student. I remember when I was young my ear drum busted.

Crying babies...they drive me nuts, so do screaming kids. I find both very annoying and cannot stand the noise itself.

Barking dogs scare me.

Those are three of the sounds I hate most in the whole world. I think I hated the sound of babies crying even when I was a baby; I fussed a lot but almost never cried. Also: car horns, shrill voices, anyone screaming or squealing, instruments played badly, the high-pitched buzzing some technology makes, pencils, and (this is the worst) people rubbing their hands together.

I remember having to watch The Scarlet Letter in English 11 and the whole beginning of the movie the baby cried, I had to walk out of the classroom.
I HATED that movie!! !

See, I was a QUIET baby:
and if you notice in the video my older brother is being nosy and it looks to me I'm getting annoyed by it...even as a baby I hated noises.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgToty7MsE0[/youtube]

It's in the summer that my neighbours leave their poor, crazy mutt outside - barking its head off pretty much the entire time... And in summer, my windows have to be open all the time or I broil, so there's no escaping the noise.

Well, if it happens again this year I may just take action - but I hate the thought of the dog possibly ending up @ the SPCA because of me... . I'm amazed that none of the other neighbours have complained about the racket, considering I'm three houses away and it still drives me insane!

Oh, and StewartMango/Nicole, you really did look stressed-out in that home movie! It's neat to have "footage" of it from that far back.

Screaming children. Whenever my brothers drop theirs off at my house with their wife, I lock myself into my room until they leave. I don't even like it when kids talk in a quiet voice. I hate the sound of a child's voice. I DESPISE children.