Definitely a low tolerance for noise here. I'm also not a deep sleeper it seems, so any little noise wakes me up

Yep...very very sensitive to noise here.

I live with my parents, and both of them are becoming hard of hearing. I'm constantly turning their tv's down...constantly asking them to use their "inside voices".

When we go to a restaurant, if there are any small children around (small as in, anyone younger than 16) I can sometimes barely stand it.

Went to a chinese restaurant last night, place was so quiet...until these two women showed up with their kids. The waitress just HAD to seat them directly next to us.

Immediately the four year old starts screaming....the women were saying "oh, isnt he cute?". (I'm holding my ears, wondering if they're bleeding and trying to not be rude and asking them if they could duct tape the kid's mouth shut.

Then the little baby starts to scream (I can excuse babies screaming, but not four year olds) That scream was no where near as irritating and migraine inducing as the older kid.

Isnt four an age where you can ask a kid to not scream?


I dont mind loud music all that much, but loud tv's, loud people, and my mom humming (the off tune humming of the insane) are all noises that make me want to stab myself in the ear with an icepick.

I haven't really figured this one out. I seem to have a low tolerance for some kinds of noises that I never had before. Lots of noises going on at once, like parties *shudder*, where lots of people are talking in different tones and volumes, and there is background music, clinking of dishes, chairs squeeching across the floor, etc.

Sometimes I can't talk on the phone, the voice through the receiver is like an ice pick.

Certain sounds like car horns, small yappy dogs, certain people's voices...aaaaarrrgggh!

I can still turn up the tunes and holler along, but I can't do background music if I'm doing anything that requires thinking.

Yes!! Music doesn't seem to bother me - if it's music I like and I'm controlling the volume.

The clinking dishes, chairs being drug across the floor, loud talking.........forget it!! I have to get out of there or risk tearing my ears off my head!!

And why do some commercials seem to be at a higher volume than the TV show I'm watching. I get the volume at a level I can tolerate and then the commercial comes on and it's twice as loud!! What is up with that??