Are you irritated by some accents/voice intonations? I think I have posted before about this, but I have an extreme aversion to 'up-talk' or the high-rise terminal (HRT). Teenagers, particularly girls, speak like this a lot, but so do many 20 and 30 somethings now. Every statement is spoken as if it were a question, giving off an air of uncertainty, as if they expect you to disagree with them. As someone with Aspergers, I like certainty and formal speech, but up-talk leaves me feeling confused and unclear. I get stressed when people talk like this, and end up not believing what they say, because it is so vague. I understand that language and accents change, but I can't help opposing up-talk. It goes against the way my brain is wired: certainty is replaced by endless questions, which are not meant to be questions.
. Yeah, the high rise thing is exactly what I mean - it can come across as patronising and overly sentimental. I know they can't help it; people without AS are born with the social brain, and it follows that they all pick up the latest social meme (to borrow a word from Richard Dawkins). As an observer, and someone who can speak quite differently (I have been told that I speak received English, even though my parents and brother don't speak it!), I am quite sensitive to it!