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Find certain sounds annoying!

autisticboy
21 days ago

I stay with my parents on the weekend and I find certain sounds really annoying. Normally I am able to grin and bear it but recently due to a meltdown my sensory processing is a lot harder and I get a bit angry when I hear certain sounds.

For example, when we all have ice creams in the evening on the sofa my Dad will wait until we’ve all finished- (to take the freezer chill off it apparently), and then crunch away on his ice cream which I find unbearable. Recently I’ve been putting my hands over my ears and I unfortunately make a big scene and Dad gets cross.

Does anyone else struggle with processing certain sounds? I also really hate the sound of tin foil.

Today we had a fry up and all the sounds of things beeping, bacon sizzling & heat from the stove meant I had to leave the room for a few seconds before coming back and feeling better. I think that is a bit different though as there’s other sensory processing going on such as the heat and smells and I get more angry with certain sounds all of a sudden happening. (Although how stressed I get by it depends on how I’m feeling).

I was reading online that a suggestion is to put some earphones in. I have Apple AirPods but am worried I would look rude putting them in out of the blue.

Any advice would be most welcome, thanks in advance! 

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  • 21 days ago

    Are your parents reasonable? Are you able to tell them that you need to be able to block out some sounds, and that you are not being rude and that it will help you not 'make a scene'.

    All you describe is really normal. Your parents could be educated on this, I hope.

    I just randomly found this on Google, but you could do a search yourself and ask your parents to read it. Do it at a time when everyone's tempers are good and no one is wound up:

    https://www.abtaba.com/blog/autism-and-sound-sensitivity

    I ask people politely to put their phones on silent if they get a million message notifications a minute. I've turned down washing machine beeps on other people's machines without telling them (not advised!)

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  • 21 days ago

    Are your parents reasonable? Are you able to tell them that you need to be able to block out some sounds, and that you are not being rude and that it will help you not 'make a scene'.

    All you describe is really normal. Your parents could be educated on this, I hope.

    I just randomly found this on Google, but you could do a search yourself and ask your parents to read it. Do it at a time when everyone's tempers are good and no one is wound up:

    https://www.abtaba.com/blog/autism-and-sound-sensitivity

    I ask people politely to put their phones on silent if they get a million message notifications a minute. I've turned down washing machine beeps on other people's machines without telling them (not advised!)

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