starting to think i may have this issue...

January 24, 2012

Im a 25 year old male, and found myself looking into this after my mom sent me a

link to the ny times article about sound annoyances. I had confided in her that

i have these " triggers " the last time i was visiting home and it seems that she

has been busy doing research that I never thought to look into.

For me its a few things, that almost always seem to show in a work environment

or a relationship. I used to work in an office where at lunch the designer at

the desk near me would eat yogurt and apples during lunch, the apple was bad,

but the scraping of the empty yogurt container bottom would drive me nuts, i had

to CRANK the volume of my headphones to try and drown it out and calm down. My

current boss walks around the office clicking his pen, this also makes me crazy.

I feel like im boiling inside, and i just want to explode or quit and walk out.

My last relationship ended recently, we had our normal issues, my issues didn't

help, she never understood why i could be around her when she was brushing her

teeth, and often make fun of me for it, using it to try and playfully annoy me

before bed and getting upset when i wouldn't find it as amusing and force myself

out of the room.

Something im curious about is noise in public places, sometimes when we would be

out to eat and in a crowded restaurant I would get really visibly uncomfortable

because i thought she was talking extremely loudly.

I guess after our break i was kind of forced to take stock in all these things,

and am looking to try and fix these issues as they seem to be effecting my life

more than i had thought. It is also nice to know there are others out there that

have similar issues.

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