Guest guest Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 Footsteps make me " crazy " too. It is not so much the noise of the footstep, but the anticipation of the next footstep, and the next footstep... and the next footstep... The repetition definitely has something to do with creating the discomfort. bocalynne > > I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard heel > strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable even > thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that does not > hurt except for animals' footsteps. > Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never have - people > don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience that I'm > reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew about it > and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even admits that > he didn't fully understand until much later in the relationship - > Adah > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 I didn’t think it was possible for anyone else to hate the sound of those awful sports jackets! Remember back a few years ago when that was ‘a thing’...with the jogging pants and matching jacket...with the shiny, noisy material. OH MY GOODNESS!!! I was just starting college when that whole trend hit, and it almost literally drove me insane. If I was in class taking a test and the person in front of me had one of those jackets on...I could hear each and every time they moved...even a little bit. The swishing... My friends would wear them, and I couldn’t concentrate on anything the whole time we were out. One of my friends had a pink and green one. It was a sorority jacket, and she insisted on wearing it at all times. I learned to ‘tolerate it’ but I never, ever got used to it. How very, very interesting! Shon K! From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ] On Behalf Of Pia Levensteins Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:22 PM To: Soundsensitivity Subject: RE: Re: Footsteps anyone? and those jackets that shush when it rubs together!! > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity >To: Soundsensitivity >Subject: Re: Footsteps anyone? >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:07:37 -0000 > >When you're out in public, is it easier to handle the footsteps if >you're with someone instead of being alone? I've found that even if >the person I'm with is walking loudly, I can tolerate it better than >if it's a stranger walking loudly. Unless of course, it's my husband >walking loudly. The sounds he makes are intolerable. Sad. > > > > > > Yes, me too. When my mother was in the hospital many years ago, my >hyper > > older sister was pacing back and forth in her heels and I literally >picked > > her up by the neck and swung her back and forth!!! > > > > > > > > > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity > > >To: Soundsensitivity > > >Subject: Footsteps anyone? > > >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:25:41 -0000 > > > > > >I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > > >footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard heel > > >strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable even > > >thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that does >not > > >hurt except for animals' footsteps. > > >Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never have - >people > > >don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience that >I'm > > >reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew >about it > > >and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even admits >that > > >he didn't fully understand until much later in the relationship - > > >Adah > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 The flip-flop must certainly have been invented to torture people with SSSS!!! bocalynne > > High heels yes, as well as shoes that have had those metal bits added to the > heel and toe (why??). If the shoes are new and the heels haven't worn down > the noise doesn't affect me too much. > > Flip flops - horrible. Two problems - 1 the slap as they hit the bottom of > the foot 2 - the fact that people tend to drag their feet when wearing them > (fgs pick your feet up!!!) > > > > > >I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > >footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard heel > >strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable even > >thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that does not > >hurt except for animals' footsteps. > >Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never have - people > >don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience that I'm > >reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew about it > >and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even admits that > >he didn't fully understand until much later in the relationship - > >Adah > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 hi everyone, i have not been here in a while but wanted to check in and noticed messages about flipflops which i refer to as " shuffleshoes " .........anyone who drags their feet, can't or just doesn't pick up their feet. i have even noticed that i'll say quietly but OUT LOUD, PICK UP YOUR FEET OR BEFORE I BLOW THEM OFF. i'd never hurt a person but i'd sure love to " blow those flip flops off their feet " .................especially the ones who drag their long pants along the ground while thier sliding in their shuffle shoes. i've noticed that some of the things that are bothering me " now " and not even a few years ago are from " one person " who is now 21 and i remember one day, asking her to stop BOUNCING A BASKETBALL outside the front door on a sunday morning and she wouln't stop and her mom wouldn't make her stop and it became " her thing " to drive me crazy and now, it does. seems like whenever i'm in a store now, a kid with a ball will find me. also, this same kid eats with really bad (no) manners and LOUD silverware clinking like a " chainsaw " on the plate and you can hear every " cut " every bite, i think the fact that the first time i asked her to stop, she wouldn't and her mom wouldn't make her, really made me mad and probably has something to do with why it " all of a sudden " bothers me to hear ANY ball bouncing. i also noticed people talking about the stereo and not hearing music but the " boom,boom,boom " ........that will also put me in a RAGE. i track it down and let them know, if i can hear it in my apt., it's TOO LOUD. i try to be nice but it's hard. there are also commercials with songs, one is el polo loco, there are quite a few and i can't grab the remote fast enough to change or mute the t.v. i live in so. cal. so not sure if you're familiar with the commercials but there is one and this little jerk says " one line " ... " you're killing me larry " in his whiny little voice, 2 or 3 times during the commercial, it drives me insane. oh, and the new commercials for oreos where these people are " licking the cookies " in a race, MAKES ME SICK. all for now..........oh yeah, i read something about dateline.......I'LL GO ON. donnie > > > > High heels yes, as well as shoes that have had those metal bits > added to the > > heel and toe (why??). If the shoes are new and the heels haven't > worn down > > the noise doesn't affect me too much. > > > > Flip flops - horrible. Two problems - 1 the slap as they hit the > bottom of > > the foot 2 - the fact that people tend to drag their feet when > wearing them > > (fgs pick your feet up!!!) > > > > > > > > > >I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > > >footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard heel > > >strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable even > > >thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that does not > > >hurt except for animals' footsteps. > > >Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never have - people > > >don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience that I'm > > >reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew about it > > >and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even admits that > > >he didn't fully understand until much later in the relationship - > > >Adah > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Now that I have moved into a cubicle and Thank God have my headphones I am sitting near a radio sing-a-longer. My God there will always be something. She hums along really high pitched. And those people who hum on the subway...jingle the keys or change in their pockets. Certain voices. Some poor husbands have to listen to their wives talk and talk and talk. I know they are not listening to a thing their wives are saying...then the foreign languages. I am guilty of that if I ride the subway with my sister and we speak Estonian so I keep it to a minimum. Now they give out free morning newspapers on the subway and you hear a lot of paper noises. The people who have to open the paper, fold it just so and shake it to read one line and then they move on to the next page and have to open, fold and shake again, and on and on it goes. I open the paper quietly and do not fold it or make any noise. > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity >To: <Soundsensitivity > >Subject: RE: Re: Footsteps anyone? >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:02:48 -0400 > >I didn't think it was possible for anyone else to hate the sound of those >awful sports jackets! Remember back a few years ago when that was 'a >thing'...with the jogging pants and matching jacket...with the shiny, noisy >material. OH MY GOODNESS!!! I was just starting college when that whole >trend hit, and it almost literally drove me insane. If I was in class >taking >a test and the person in front of me had one of those jackets on...I could >hear each and every time they moved...even a little bit. The swishing... > >My friends would wear them, and I couldn't concentrate on anything the >whole >time we were out. One of my friends had a pink and green one. It was a >sorority jacket, and she insisted on wearing it at all times. I learned to >'tolerate it' but I never, ever got used to it. > >How very, very interesting! > > > >Shon K! > > > >From: Soundsensitivity >[mailto:Soundsensitivity ] On Behalf Of Pia Levensteins >Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 3:22 PM >To: Soundsensitivity >Subject: RE: Re: Footsteps anyone? > > > >and those jackets that shush when it rubs together!! > > >From: " adah_123 " <asiganoff@... ><mailto:asiganoff%40sbcglobal.net> > > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity ><mailto:Soundsensitivity%40yahoogroups.com> > >To: Soundsensitivity ><mailto:Soundsensitivity%40yahoogroups.com> > >Subject: Re: Footsteps anyone? > >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 19:07:37 -0000 > > > >When you're out in public, is it easier to handle the footsteps if > >you're with someone instead of being alone? I've found that even if > >the person I'm with is walking loudly, I can tolerate it better than > >if it's a stranger walking loudly. Unless of course, it's my husband > >walking loudly. The sounds he makes are intolerable. Sad. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, me too. When my mother was in the hospital many years ago, my > >hyper > > > older sister was pacing back and forth in her heels and I literally > >picked > > > her up by the neck and swung her back and forth!!! > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity ><mailto:Soundsensitivity%40yahoogroups.com> > > > >To: Soundsensitivity ><mailto:Soundsensitivity%40yahoogroups.com> > > > >Subject: Footsteps anyone? > > > >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:25:41 -0000 > > > > > > > >I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > > > >footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard heel > > > >strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable even > > > >thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that does > >not > > > >hurt except for animals' footsteps. > > > >Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never have - > >people > > > >don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience that > >I'm > > > >reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew > >about it > > > >and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even admits > >that > > > >he didn't fully understand until much later in the relationship - > > > >Adah > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 I don't have SSSS, but I think of it as if someone tickles you. If you try to tickle yourself it doesn't have an effect, but if someone else does it--it is very ticklish. This is what I think. Kathy Howe Re: Footsteps anyone? >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:27:38 -0700 (PDT) > >My 9 yr old is really having issues with the flip flops. She also can't >stand the sound of me walking on the wood floor barefoot. She hears my >feet sticking and asks me to put on socks. I try to be as accomodating as >I can, but don't always think of wearing socks or wearing tennis shoes >instead of flip flops. One thing that I don't understand is how she can >wear flip flops and it doesn't bother her. The same with eating, she can >eat popcorn, chew gum, etc. but she says she doesn't hear herself and it >doesn't bother her. I do not have ssss myself, so if anyone could explain >why they think their own noises don't bother them I'd appreciate it. > > As far as contributing to Dateline, my daughter won't even tell her >closest friends much less go on a tv show. However, I may be able to >contribute information on how it has affected our family. > > Robin > > >--------------------------------- >Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates >starting at 1¢/min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 that's interesting, you asked me if my parents ever gave me a hard time about making noise while walking, YES, my mom would say, " pick up your feet " and I DID. back then, we listened to our parents and we " did " what we were told, THE FIRST TIME. we were taught from a young age, table manners so when i'd hear or see other people eating like " pigs " , it made me sick and still does but it's WORSE now. i can't even be in the car or with anyone chewing gum let alone " snapping it " ..............even watching it come out of their purse, like many have said, the anticipation of what's coming, IT'S AWFUL. i'm finding that when someone uses the same word over and over, that bothers me too. i'm in my car, listening to talk radio and this guy says a word that NO ONE would even know what it means to impress people who are listening (he thinks)and then, he says it over and over and i'm telling him LOUD " why don't you say that 15 more times " i'm pretty sure all this stuff comes from people and things in our past but why can't we just " handle it " like other people, that's the 'MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION'...........donnie > > > > > > > > High heels yes, as well as shoes that have had those metal bits > > > added to the > > > > heel and toe (why??). If the shoes are new and the heels haven't > > > worn down > > > > the noise doesn't affect me too much. > > > > > > > > Flip flops - horrible. Two problems - 1 the slap as they hit the > > > bottom of > > > > the foot 2 - the fact that people tend to drag their feet when > > > wearing them > > > > (fgs pick your feet up!!!) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I'm wondering if anyone else has problems with the sound(s) of > > > > >footsteps. Clicking high heels, flip-flops, shuffling, hard > heel > > > > >strikes, walking on gravel . . . I'm getting uncomfortable > even > > > > >thinking about it. I cannot think of any footstep sound that > > does not > > > > >hurt except for animals' footsteps. > > > > >Also RE: telling people about sound sensitivity. I never > have - > > people > > > > >don't " get it " or I'm afraid that I would have an experience > > that I'm > > > > >reading from many of you out there: like my siblings who knew > > about it > > > > >and used it as a weapon when I was a kid. My husband even > > admits that > > > > >he didn't fully understand until much later in the > relationship - > > > > >Adah > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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