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?

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. 

I wish I could get rid of all the beeps and jingles too, even our washing machines sings a little song to tell us it's finished. However there are some I find quite comforting, like the BBC2 noise just before Newsnight comes on. There are some that are quite funny, like the fridge mooing at us and occaisionally baa-ing.

I wish I could get rid of all the beeps and jingles too, even our washing machines sings a little song to tell us it's finished. However there are some I find quite comforting, like the BBC2 noise just before Newsnight comes on. There are some that are quite funny, like the fridge mooing at us and occaisionally baa-ing.