Noises that give you the RAGE

[ArtixLynx]

You know, the ones that don't just irritate you, but its almost instant RAGE when they happen.. there's just something about them that really gets to you.

I'll preface this by saying i'm Neurodivergent and particularly sensitive to noises, i'm aware they might not bother anyone else.

My biggest one is the sound of the dog licking things. carpet, himself... just that awful repetitive moist licky noise. UGH
Also his bark is another one.. think thats just because it makes me jump every time (usually barking at squirrels in the garden)

Beeping, couple of the kids games have a constant beep that i can't tolerate and they have to either go play elsewhere or use headphones... same with tv programmes where they're in a medical setting and there is the monitor beep.

Certain tones of roadwork/building noises, like stone cutting, or the drone of some of the generators they use... feels like its just living in the base of your skull.

Before anyone asks.. i've taken to wearing noise cancelling earplugs lately.. its sweet relief!

What are yours?

Some coffee shops are oases of calm but SOME have constant steaming, clanking, clattering, jarring sounds that get right on my nerves and make me vow never to go there again.

Noisy eaters and sniffing, just blow your nose 😡

Mine is grit on a surface. If I place a cup or bowl or whatever on the kitchen counter/windowsill/bedside table/etc, and you get that 'crunch' - however almost imperceptible it might be - it gives me instant, visceral rage.

We're doing a lot of work to a very old house that we're also living in, and I'm being slowly driven mad by the grit everywhere.

<insert 'I' instead of 'you' where appropriate!>

The (over) stirring of tea and coffee in a mug. It's the sounds of the spoon on the china. Does anyone remember the scene from'Get Out' where she keeps stirring and stirring her tea? UNBEARABLE!

Apple eating should be illegal in public, unless you are a horse

Loud people. Barking dogs.

Vocal fry
Radio interviews where someone's mouth is a bit dry so their saliva clicks and lightly smacks when their tongue touches their teeth/roof of mouth as they talk.
🤢🤬😡

Vocal fry is very trying. I’ve stopped listening to some podcasts because of this. And yes to weirdly high America women’s voices. I don’t know how some women can pitch their voices so high.

Being able to hear my neighbour's tv through the wall. For some reason it hurts my ears even though it's not horrendously loud.
Also my cat regularly makes a weird sound like she's eating quavers and it drives me up the wall. I get unreasonably angry when I hear it.
Both of these make me so angry but lots of noises drive me mad, just not quite 'I want to kill someone' angry.

Yup, both of these.

Vocal fry
Radio interviews where someone's mouth is a bit dry so their saliva clicks and lightly smacks when their tongue touches their teeth/roof of mouth as they talk.
🤢🤬😡

Very much both of the above, especially the radio thing. I hadn't worked out what was causing it but whenever it happens I have to switch the radio straight off!

People tapping their fingers on surfaces.
It makes me want to snap them clean off.

My husband chewing and swallowing

Most electronic noises are unbearable. I find certain tv programmes very bad too.

Radio that is on too loud
Brash and fast-talking radio presenters just talking rubbish for ages and ages
Vacuum cleaner (unless I'm doing it, then it's fine!)
Extractor fan in bathroom - I prefer to not have it on than listen to it
Other peoples' music choices (unless I love it and am in the mood for it)
Shrieky YouTubers my kids like to listen to, especially the one with an annoying shrieky fake laugh to match

Noisy eating!

A basketball bouncing constantly on a hard surface. Drove me insane during the summer evenings.

I could fill this thread all by myself. I’m so sensitive to noise.

doorbells that sound like they’re trying to wake the dead
whistling
sniffing, constant never ending sniffing
the gross snorting, hocking up a hairball that humans make when they have a cold or are coming to the end of a cold. I worked with a man who did this constantly. It was mostly the reason for me leaving that job.
sipping a drink followed by a loud “ahhhhh”. Every sip. It’s unnecessary.
Home appliances that beep when they start or end and you don’t immediately rush to empty them.
People with such low voices that they’re impossible to hear, everyone is straining to hear and they get lower 😡

Someone joining in with random bits of songs on and off, it’s like a badly tuned radio.
Badly tuned radios
The lack of noise of electric cars weirds me out

yippy yappy dogs

babies or children crying with no one comforting them. I’m not an overly maternal person but I want to run and cuddle them. I was terrible at cry it out method.

Mumbling

Fiddling with wrappers in the cinema or theatre

phones going off in inappropriate settings. How do you not know to turn it off???

Snoring when I’m awake with insomnia (looking at you DH)

Sloppy eating, slapping lips together, talking with food in your mouth, over filling your mouth.

Earplugs are my saviour in public places.

Barking dogs - particularly the high pitch yappy sound that smaller dogs make.
One of the reasons we won’t ever get a dog.

People munching and snacking their lips loudly when eating. Also people talking with their mouth full. It sounds as horrible as it looks.

Whistling. Absolutely gets my goat .
Husband sneezing, he actually shouts achoo at the same time . So the natural sneeze with a shout to accompany it. Winds me up. However,
I can find him anywhere in the supermarket.

And YY to the poster who said people watching videos etc at full volume in public. I was in a packed waiting room for 1 1/2 hours recently, and the man sat next but one to me was watching some sports podcast (not even an actual game) for all that time at full volume.

It gave me the complete rage, but the waiting room was one of those tense feeling ones where nobody speaks (although packed), so although tempted to ask him to turn it down I got the impression he'd have told me to sod off and then I'd have seethed in not just fury but awkward fury for the rest of the time.

Another ND here
Emergency vehicles
Repetitive banging
Lawnmower and leafblowers
Aeroplanes, especially military ones. They can actually make me cry.
People singing
Dramatic sneezers
Jazz music
Lots of people talking at once, especially in an echoey room.
Cafes where they bang and clatter
Long continuous mouth sounds like humming

Mouth noises, particularly DP and DD. I sit for meals with them but by the end by of the day just that clicking sound people do before they speak goes through me and makes me cross.

Engine running on vehicles. Next door are very sociable and so many evenings a couple will be leaving and one goes back in and the driver leaves the engine running. For ages. I hate it so much, such an intrusive sound.

Other next doors ridiculous whooping laugh coming through the walls at all hours.

The pedestrian sounder on our electric car. Sounds like ghosts .

@smooththecat that's my Mum- DH says she sounds like she's addressing a rally when she's just speaking

Vocal fry and the way some people speak where every sentence sounds like a question. It makes my scalp crawl.