For a Start

[Guest guest]

Hello,

I discovered this group by googling the terms "noise anxiety" "noise annoyance". After reading some of the posts, I mentally exclaimed "Yes! That's me! I'm not alone!"

Reciprocal support and solace seems to be what I want to exchange from this group affiliation.

I am 56 years old and my selectivity and sensitivity to certain sounds seem to be increasing as I get older.

To get started, I'll list some of the more acute auditory triggers that typically evoke a rage response from within:

^wide variety of mouth sounds (including, but not limited to: slurping, smacking, chewing food with mouth open, gum popping or chewing- Oh, God!)__

^obnoxious clatter of wrist jewelery on work surface while wearer of said jewelery is typing on keyboard__

^grating staccato sound of certain computer keyboard keystrokes (many Dell models seem particularly loud)___

^sounds that have the following combined characteristics: unexpected (acute startle response), low frequency (therefore less likely to indentify and localize, and thus more disturbing) staccato (violent strikes)___-examples: doors shutting in adjoining apartments- especially above me__ car doors slamming unexpectedly.

I current live in a ground floor apartment and at times I feel as though I am being auditorially defecated upon from the activity in the apartment above me.

Enough for now, just want to say Hi.

Bye for now.