Nervous anticipation

I stand by the microwave so I can turn it off when it gets to 1 minute rather than having to hear the several loud beeps when it ends - is that the same thing?

I stand by the microwave so I can turn it off when it gets to 1 minute rather than having to hear the several loud beeps when it ends - is that the same thing?

I wait for my Air Fryer to finish.

I'm not sure whether,via your description, it's the same . I do know however that waiting for those beeps affects me in the same way as the pop up sound from the toaster.  Going maybe/probably very left field I wonder whether,in my case, it's a hyper-vigilance issue.

It could be the same thing and I do that too. But, it might depend on how tense or anxious you get. I get quite tense as the microwave approaches the beep sound and would turn it off, but the ITV X boom feels as if it is going through me. It is agonising. From what I have read about ASD, it wouldn’t be possible to measure how much more or less somebody is affected by something like that. I would love to get rid of all the beeps and lights from kitchen appliances, TVs & so on.