When hurricane Beryl hit us, Target was on generators with very minimal lighting and no music. It was such a great shopping experience, that I flagged down the manager and asked them to do this full time.

Of course they didn’t. But man, I miss that.

earplugs have been a game changer for me. i haven’t been shopping without them for the last six months.

Some noise I do like though, if a store is dead quiet it feels like you can’t talk to anyone or even ask a vendor a question without being the attention of everyone in the surrounding area. There is a bit of privacy to a bit of noise. Though I agree to much is terrible.

I’ve heard that this is instinctual. We have evolved to find crying and upset children intolerable because it motivates us to do something about it.

Children are also exceptional and figuring out how to push our buttons because they instinctively find and repeat behaviors that get a reaction out of their caregivers when they desire attention.

Unfortunately the most motivating emotions are often negative ones.

I have questions.

1. Pants - Do you also not like wearing any shorts? If you don’t have any problems wearing shorts, then how long does a short have to be to stop being a short and start annoying you?

2. Porridge - What about macaroni or chilli ? Do you know that jelly thing with bits of fruit chunks in it? What about that? What happens if your cereal gets too soggy?

3. Coats - Do you live in a warm/humid region? How do you cope with winters when it gets cold? Does a sweater feel different than a coat?

4. I’m with you on the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing.

5. Sandpaper is supposed to be irritating. But is there any correlation between your thing against Sandpaper & the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing?

6. Dry skin? Is it because it reminds you of Sandpaper or sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach ?

7. Dry clay - again, is it correlated to the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing ?

8. Plastic things? Like plastic things just existing & minding their own business or plastic things that touch your skin or the ones that you’re in contact with? What about the kind used in hospitals for IV fluids? Or the so-called BPA free that is used in takeaway containers or food storage?

9. Body hair touching you - WHOSE body hair? Your own body hair or somebody else’s body hair? Does it remind you of wearing a coat? What do you do when you are trying to get physically intimate with someone? Do you avoid the hairy body parts? Aren’t they the most fun?

10. Tight sleeves around the armpits - yeah, I can imagine that. Now I don’t want to imagine it anymore.

11. Neon colours? - okay. To each their own.

12. Yes, people using those bright lights should have Gorilla Glue put in their eyes.

13. Flashing lights - Do you also not like the small twinkling fairy lights? What about blinking festival lights? Do you also not like any flashing traffic lights? Do you ignore flashing traffic lights?

14. Eating or chewing loudly is a sign that you were not loved as a child. I’m with you on this.

15. Beeping sounds - what do you plan to do when you have to be in a hospital? Say you have to visit the dentist & there are beeping sounds from their machines, you’ll have to bear the beeping sounds along with your toothache.

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How do people manage to BITE a fork and drag it out? How do they not immediately blow their brains out afterwards?

I have a cat. She is currently emitting no noise and is a moderate grey color.

This is how you can easily differentiate people and assholes. Assholes leave their dogs outside.

Yeah I used to go for a walk at my old neighborhood and one dog would start barking then the next and the next and soon I would have the whole neighborhood barking just by walking around the block.

Also my old neighborhood my neighbor will leave for work at 6:00 in the morning and his dog would woefully and loudly bark for a solid hour after he left.

At one office i worked in the guy on the other side of the cubicle wall from me was a loud eater and constant snacker. Drove me insane. Sound of people eating just completely puts me on edge.

YES. This stuff just feels sticky. As if it’s latching onto my skin and creating the same feeling I get when someone is rubbing two pieces of Styrofoam against each other, only this time literally palpable.

Is it like hungryphrog’s thing about Sandpaper or the sand-on-your-wet-skin-at-the-beach thing? Or is it like hungryphrog’s Coat thing?

Finally!! Somebody else who hates touching cardboard! :D

I have many sensory problems, but cardboard-touching is definitely the worst.

Crumbfoot!!!

I hate it to the point that I vacuum and wipe the floors in the common areas by hand everyday.

Thankfully, the family understands that I’m not anti-social. I just can’t sit in a room with the TV on and two grandchildren listening to iPads all at the same time.

I have plenty of tasks in my office or in the garage.

That was last night at the family gathering. Why was the tv volume on at all? Everyone was shouting to be heard over everyone else. The amount of questions directed at me and me not able to string two thoughts together to reply intelligently because someone turned it on some bakeoff marathon and then hid the effing remote.

I kind of understand why these things bother you. They don’t really bother me, except the synthetic fragrances, but I can get the gist. It’s kind of weird.