Annoyance from certain noises - audiophile related?

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I'm just curious if this phenomenon is related with the loving of nice sound. I'm just nervous when I hear certain noises and I feel like murdering someone. They have to be at a certain repetition and tempo to make me angry. If I'm calm and jobless it's more acceptable, but if I'm concentrated on working or listening to music, I get insane.

I dislike noises like:
-fast mouse clicking (someone playing)
-spoon hitting a dish repeatedly
-loud eating or breathing.. aaargh
-snoring
-hammerdrill through concrete
-certain voice frequencies and especially high pitched stubborn barks from small dogs, i feel like smashing their heads on concrete.

Usually I'm very tolerant, but the more the noise continues, the more rage I build and finally when I let it all go, it's very bad :D
On a recent hi-fi expo while listening, I was about getting mad to a guy who blew his nose every few seconds. Thank God, his friend made him a remark and they quit the hall.

You may think I'm insane.. But I just need silence when concentrated or something. I don't mind the lovely sound of birds, wind or riverfall though ,I would love their presence.

I will appreciate any similar comments from you :)
 
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Hey, thanks from the nice material. I've read about this case before. I suspect I might have a low level of this syndrome, because well.... I'm not antisocial, you know. I can stand eating and drinking people, but at a certain level.

By a certain lever I mean, I have to be with them, enjoying like they do. Then I don't mind table sounds. One exception - I can't stand eating with open mouth sound, maybe then the syndrome comes into play.

In the same time I can do similar activities related with the noises. If I was a dog trainer, I wouldn't mind the bark so much than if I was sitting on my desk and soldering.
 
i'm with you on the mouse clicking, along with everything else on the list. I mod all my mouse to click silently since they bother me so much when I'm listening to music on my pc. it's a bit tricky and the button does become more sensitive but if you bend the metal in the clicker certain way it does adjust the tension to where the mouse 'clicks' silently. now if i can get a low profile apple keyboard and cover it with a thick silicon sleeve i'll be in heaven :)
 
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I'm currently young, 20 years old.
Not sure if it got worse, it god a little better, I try to be more tolerant now. But the noises still annoy me.. The first question I get popped in mind is : "Okay, WHY the **** has he/she to do this noise?!" :) I can't understand why my best friend breathes so loudly sometimes, but I'm used to, it still annoys me though.
I tell him about it when we are watching a movie/listening to music, he's kind and he stops, but not for long and then here I go again :p.

I thank it may be partially related with my way of thinking. When doing certain activities, the brain just doesn't want the addition of some sounds. For example I don't like anything to interrupt my music listening - just everything annoys me. My mind seems to perceive other noises as parasites and is only focused on the music parts. I'm very concentrated when doing certain activities like working, reading, music listening and my mind is 100% on the activity. The same goes for movies - I especially dislike someone commenting while watching. Just keep your mouth shut and watch, aa'right?

But when I participate in an action with its own sounds - drinking, eating, partying for example, the sounds don't annoy me, I'm in the action too and my mind is on the same activity as are the others.
 
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Mouse clicking noises aren't too bad for me, but the rest of your list is right up there. They are classic annoying noises. But where is the crying baby?

He is only 20, so has yet to have the pleasure, perhaps.
From my perspective as a neurologist, but not a hearing specialist, I think it is normal to get annoyed with sounds like that. It is the reaction that is different and that is largely based on several factors such as sensitivity to sounds (hyperacusis), our ability to focus, tune things out or multitask (possibly difficult for the OP), socialized associations, and possibly most important is personality.
The violent themes of the OP belie his youth, and are reactive expression, based in current culture and his own personality. His self stated tolerance for other things helps him keep the lid on, as I suspect his excellent introspective abilities do.
 
For me its only the dogs next door. Small yappy things. They bark whenever anyone walks (or breathes, apparently) within 3m of the house. As they live 2.5m away from an oft-used footpath, they can get very irritating at peak hours.

I, too, ask myself why they have to make that sound. Don't they get bored, knowing there is nothing they can do about the noises from outside their world?
There was only one conclusion I could reach: they're stupid, and don't know any better.

I have a younger sister, so not much annoys me :)
 
I believe that most people have those same tendencies. If they bother you too much, in your own judgement, then you might want or need to try to find ways to mitigate the problem.

Carrying a large belt-fed weapon with you, everywhere, is only one option (smile).

Xanax is an anti-anxiety medication. Something like that might be worth trying, if the problem affects your life, or your livelihood, too much. (It is addictive, in the sense that "rebound anxiety" might occur after sudden cessation. But if it is needed and works then it would be worth using it. And gradual cessation could be used to avoid the rebound effect.)

Just thinking about it, as you have at least started to do, should be able to help, too. There might also be mental TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures) that you could develop that would help you. One obvious non-mental TTP could be to have some earplugs or noise-cancelling headphones available, when you are performing activities that don't require hearing.

Maybe you could make a recording with the things that annoy you the most, but recorded in ridiculously-dense quantities, and use that to try to desensitize yourself, even if it's just at certain times or for special occasions.

Maybe you could also even find a way to learn to steer the anger energy into your preferred mental activity at the time. or perhaps you could steer it into some other emotion, besides annoyance or anger, perhaps something like pity (because they're so unfortunate or stupid or inept, for example).

(And the concommitant million-dollar idea is... Take those most-annoying sounds, and a sound-sampling keyboard, and create the most anger-inducing song ever heard. (grin))
 
i'm right there with you, the loud eating thing sends me insane to the point where i have to say something. my Father makes even the most silent meals like risotto deafening!! and he cleans every last grain from the plate with his spoon, tapping and clinking the whole time, scraping every bit down into the bottom so he can get it aaaaarrgghh:headbash::smash::redhot::bomb:
 
Visited my best friend today and I talked about the noise issues. Being completely normal, very nice person, emotional and even much sociable than me, she shared about the dislike of the same sounds and the same effect they have on her.
We have very similar personalities and we are great friends, we have even fallen in love for (sadly) a short time.

I start to think that the lack of sleep affects the sensitivity. We both have this issue, because we are mostly hard working guys.
 
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