How would you feel about someone sniffing every 5 seconds?

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If you were stuck on a flight or bus with them?

A few years back DD (she's 10) developed a sniffing tic. We ignored it (with a lot of difficulty, it massively puts me on edge) and it went away. But it's back. And it's bad. At the moment she's sniffing every 5 seconds or so.

In a month we're going to a holiday flight then bus to destination. If you were stuck on a flight/bus with a 10 year old sniffing every 5 seconds how would you feel? In the car today and I almost wanted to get out and walk miles home rather than stay in the car.

you cannot be serious? If a child is sniffing a lot, it is not up to you to parent them, and if make sure you knew that and didn’t interfere again.

the child has a disability. Parent your own. Leave others alone. Or someone will step in.

It would infuriate me and give me the rage. Dh sniffs and it leads to huge arguments.

Wouldn’t bother me, I don’t tend to tune in much to the world around me!

As for one of the comments saying ask them to stop….. reaaaallly!? I am not educated in tics but surely asking someone to try and suppress them will just make worse!?

Its not general noise - its repetative noises like sniffing, slurping and noisy eating that do my head in. But as I've said, its my problem and not theirs. I have learned to deal with it over time - headphones are a godsend!

You wouldn’t go back to reading your book and being completely unbothered though, as you said

It would wind me up and I would end up focusing on it and wind myself up more.

If you could be completely unbothered, why say anything I the first place? How sad. 😂

Unbothered by the irrational parent. Sniffing would still annoy me.

If you are worried by it, could you try giving her something to suck like boiled sweets? It might stop her sniffing while she's on the plane or bus.

But you would be focused on the sniffing and you’d be wound up, you said so, so how would you go back to your reading? 🤔

I have had this tick several years times in my life and trust me I know how irritating it is to other people. Unfortunately there js literally nothing which can be done to stop it. Mine is caused by anxiety and has nothing to do with a blocked nose. It actually gets worse when I know others are irritated by it. If I could just turn it off I would.

On the other hand people can't help their reactions it's part of being human. That being said we all have a right be in a public place so it shouldn't put you off going somewhere or make you feel guilty. A month is a long time and a tic could disappear in that time.

I have misophonia so this would absolutely drive me crazy

Oh I have this too which makes it even harder knowing how some people feel. Headphones really help but there is a lot of noise on flights in general so there would be other things to focus on.

I’m mostly relieved it’ll be ok.

the thing is I do get how annoying it is. I can’t sit in the same room as her when she’s at her worst but there is literally nothing I can do.

Murderous - sorry! But maybe it won't be that noticeable with all the other noises going on?

Tics are related to a lack of magnesium in the diet. Also, taking antihistamines relieve symptoms (so if she did have hay fever, this would be a 'two birds with one stone situation'). Love the advice on sucking on a sweet. You also can create a 'placebo' effect with something/object/clear nasal water spray (idk) to help her think she is treating the sniffs (I find it good to be open and honest with symptoms).

We struggle. There's music played everywhere these days, in all kinds of shops, and it has meant that as a noise sensitive autistic person I can't really go shopping any more because I get very stressed and upset after a short time. It's crap. It's even in Tesco so I can't go food shopping either.

We live in a noisy world but it doesn't need to be as noisy as it is, it's just that the NTs don't give a shit about us. If they did we wouldn't have music everywhere and people shouting into video calls in public spaces.

And if we didn't, I would have more bandwidth to be able to cope with people with tics as being discussed on this thread.

Tried anti-histamines and nasal spray. They did nothing except make her more aware of it which made it worse.

can try magnesium though.

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TruthorDie · Yesterday 18:52
Totally and utterly infuriating. I have been know to offer tissues but fantasise about punching them in the nose really hard”

Its a child!

@Boxina I'm sensitive to sounds too and find the music everywhere a nightmare. I've recently got a pair of AirPods (wasn't sure id like the feel of them in the ear but they're fine!) and they have a noise cancelling setting. It's amazing! Like I can't hear the music in shops at all! And they can have a setting on where if someone talks to you it can tell and changes them automatically so you can hear the conversation but then goes back to noise cancelling!

Honestly a game changer and make shopping and also trapped in the car with loud kids a LOT easier.