Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anybody have any experience with noise and anger?
Loud noises can sometimes send me into an absolute rage. Its not all noises, I like music and even like it loud sometimes. But other noises such as ice-cream van chimes or church bells affect me very badly. I don’t know if its an ASD thing or a normal reaction to sounds I don’t like.
I used to just try and ignore it and carry on, but I think I am getting less tolerant as I am getting older. I used to just try and push through it and carry on, but now even the tannoy in a supermarket makes me have to leave my shopping and go home.
Mike,
Yes! I get really angry because our neighbours leave their dog outside to bark. I feel raging because the poor animal is distressed and it's being ignored! I also feel irritated when my daughter listens to the youtuber "ss sniperwolf", who I call ss shiterwolf. Her accent is so whiney that it actually causes me to rage internally which's exhausting. I politely ask my daughter to wear her headphones when watching her phone because otherwise I get very frustrated inside. I'm lucky in that I can escape to another room to calm down. I avoid shops at certain times because it can be pretty overwhelming. I'm lucky that I'm not experiencing panic attacks at the moment but I put this down to my diet, the fact I choose when to get shopping and that I am not working so I can concentrate looking after my Autistic daughter to the best of my ability.
I shopped today in the afternoon which was reasonably quiet except for some idiot wheeling a loud squeaky trolley around. My shopping was done pronto!!!