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[rootofnewt]

when the plug falls out of the power port, my laptop makes a high-pitched whine. it's just the sound of the laptop when operating from the battery. other appliances have similar noises.

and they drive me insane.

i seriously get panicky and have a tendency to beat my head against the wall. i get angry. right now, i'm not near a wall, so i catch myself rocking back and forth with this high pitched whine ricocheting around the inside of my head. i hate it i hate it.

it hurts.

it hurts in a way that strobe lights do, but those aren't quite this bad. i just can't look at those without getting this same feeling. and flourescent lights make this same sound. and they flicker. they're evil. i can't hear anything else. the sound increases to a scream in my head.

i can't concentrate, i'm getting a headache, and i want to explode. i might explode. that's what this sound does to me.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Casey can be like that. He had to leave a bank, once, because of whining monitors. I'm sorry, how horribly icky.

aaaaaaaah

[jkatj.livejournal.com]

Plug it back in!!!!!!!!!!

[michellew.livejournal.com]

We are freaks. I know exactly what sound you're talking about and it's just vile.

I think flourescent lights should be freakin' outlawed. I'm trying to start a movement, but they're just too damned cheap. Sigh. This is what happens when the market decides stuff. It's never good.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

yeah. and you want to go back to school, which means you'll get to have fun with it. i reminded scheduling services that fluorescent lights made me ill (UV reactions) and they were able to put me in older, fluor-free classrooms (or classrooms with shields over the lights, the newer classrooms had open grids). pissed off the professors who wanted to be in new classrooms, but hey... the university has disability support services for a REASON. and the professors didn't know it was *me* who made the request, so all was well.

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[ashbet]

You mean I'm not the only one who can hear that??!!

**feels like less of a freak, kinda**

I can hear a turned-on computer monitor from 30 feet . . . and flickering flourescents drive me nucking futs . . . I'm always the one walking over and turning off the stereo because it's making too much noise when nothing's playing!

Sorry your head hurts, sugar :/

-- Andi

[krasota.livejournal.com]

yep. empty stereo white noise drives me nuts. if you read this entry on the web, you can see you're not alone. ;)

refrigerator hum is nasty, too.

and power lines. AAAAUGH.

see, i think women tend to have more sensitive hearing than men, anyhow, but those of us with certain neuro problems (migraines, epilepsy, fibro) tend towards hyperacusis, too, making it a double-whammy.

:)

[mollyoreilly.livejournal.com]

Must be nice to see (from your comments) that you're not the only one!

I haven't noticed lights bothering me, but the computer-being-on noise and (most especially) the stereo's white noise when nothing is playing drive me absolutely bonkers. Brock thinks I'm crazy, because he wants to listen to music while we go to sleep- which is fine- but he can't understand that the white noise the stereo makes after the music is over will wake me up!

:) Laura

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

what you need is a light timer--the kind you use when you go on vacation. put the cd in the stereo on repeat, but set the timer to turn OFF power at a certain time. no white noise for you, but you both still have music.

i HATE the stereo's white noise.

and i go nuts with white noise generators (the specific ones used to reduce noise, etc). literally go nut, that is... i get panicky, start rocking back and forth, develop insta-migraine, etc.

tell brock that he married you because you're crazy and now he has to live with his decision. ;) and get that light timer.

eeeeevil

[dkchapman.livejournal.com]

flourescant lights are the product of hell. not only can i hear them, and they flicker, they screw up my vision so bad that anything that projects any sort of light (be it a tv, a computer monitor, the laptop screen, reflections of light off anything) flickers and makes me nauseated as well.

i can't deal with sounds that are barely there. that radio either be on or off. if it is idly in the background, don't be shocked when i wig out on you and snap.

motors - engines - fucking traffic kills me for this reason. the humming of a mack truck is the worse. my own car's engine is bad enough that i really do have to have the radio on and loud enough to drown it out or i'll get carsick from the sound.

ugh, can i go puke now?

Re: eeeeevil

[dkchapman.livejournal.com]

christ you can't edit your own reply? that sucks.

i forgot though, the other thing that is evil beyond belief is that one icon picture thing you have that is like multiple pictures that keep swapping out. is that your idea of a twisted joke to see how fast you can trigger my upchucking reactions?

man jos i knew you were evil, but this tops it.

Re: eeeeevil

[krasota.livejournal.com]

if i wanted to trigger your upchucking reflex, i'd fix you some eggplant in fish sauce.

or i'd use this icon.

;)

but yeah, the stuff that triggers you (noises) triggers me, too.

especially stereos which are on, but not playing anything. AUGH.

[ismene.livejournal.com]

Oh god. These things kill me too. I was in the photo lab the other night, knew I had to be there till late, and someone switched on the TV attached to the video editing computer and it had that whine. Quite loudly, too. I'm amazed I'm the only one who could hear it.

Fluorescent lights bother me, but only if I'm exposed to them for lengthy periods of time. I can deal with them for a couple of hours and tune them out, but I know that being around them all the time in high school contributed to my headaches.