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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

[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.