You can watch, and I will wipe mud all over you when I finish.

Oh, how charming.

*Wipes muddy body all over the willis*

EMBRACE MY DIRT!


My internet was being a butt.

>8|
...fine. But you must shower.

Kick it in the pants.

*Puts mud on you*

Why dontcha come an wash my back bby?

Don't think I won't >:o

urgh someone brought up the topic of sound sensitivity. I definitely has it.

I think I might too, if the alarm at school is enough to make me feel dizzy and disoriented to the point of nausea...

Yes, you definitely has. We should go to the ear doctor together one day! XD

Indeed, find out what's wrong with us.

Even loud, grindy music makes me feel a little sick if it's really shrill.

Certain sounds and tones will upset me, like the loud, sort of high voice people tend to talk in...

Roo, it's always a disoriented and nauseous feeling. Like it throws me physically off balance to hear something that's too loud or too screechy. Always the high pitched sounds similar to alarms and grinding metal. Occasionally it might be a person speaking if they have a higher pitched voice and they're talking into a microphone and there's that residual echo type thing going on or the sound seems to linger. Loud cat noises to a smaller degree make me feel slightly like my ears are ringing.

I don't have that problem. It's things that are less screechy. Like, I can't be around my family talking for long because they have just the right sound and volume to bug me. And the sounds of people eating or whatever, or a group of people clapping somewhat softly.. I can't stand it.

Those things don't do more than annoy me, the eating only bothers me if it's the only sound in the room and your family members are loud and have high voices so they are borderline puke inducing but not carried on for long or consistently enough to really affect me.

I also sometimes have that same nauseous/disoriented feeling with music that is really repetitious if it carries on to long. It's something that I have to watch out for when I listen to techno and electronic music, which I generally like but will make me start to feel kind of like I have vertigo if it goes on for more than ten or fifteen minutes at a time. I don't know if it's just sensitivity to certain frequencies or what but I notice after I listen to a band like Terminal Choice or E-Nomine sometimes my ears will ring and if I listen to their longer stuff or back to back songs I'll feel dizzy.

You are definitely weird. o_o

Those lightly poppy/smacky sounds make me angry and enough of it will make me kind of ill. Not dizzy or nauseous, but more like my insides are scrunching up and I feel anxious.

It's definitely a physical response for me and not an emotional one, how much I like the music has no influence whatsoever it's just that anything on the grind/screech-ish sound level makes my ears ring and my head hurt, it's almost exactly the same as my reaction to heights, that feeling of being really off balance. I can be enjoying the music and then suddenly just feel like my whole biorhythm has been knocked out of sync. With really screechy grindy songs the effect is instantaneous.

I don't know if that's so weird, I don't like those sounds much either, they don't make me angry or upset but they will get on my nerves. At worst I find those things mildy annoying to intolerable depending on the situation and how I'm feeling that day, I think my least favorite annoyance noise is when someone makes that sound where they make a "Pop" by sucking their lips in and releasing them. Once or twice won't bother me but repeating the noise consistently is just obnoxious enough that I want to yell at the person to knock it off before I come over there and smack them.

But it's not even like "annoying". It is a physical thing in a way, but with a weird tie to emotional/mental response. The wikipedia thing covered it pretty exactly, I think...

o no I like making that noise.

And when you do it while I'm trying to concentrate on something I want to punch you.

It's my "AAAAAAAHHHH," drinking noise equivalent.

Is it this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia

If so then that is not what I have, I have something else that has no connection to an emotional/mental response things that bother me don't make me feel sick and vice versa. I think it might be something wrong with my inner ear.

Pfft.

And yes, that describes it pretty well, I think.

That's more like what I have.

Indeeed. Off to the doctor we go..

....although if that is my problem, which I suspect is the case.

Well, still better than nothing.

Those are my symptoms to the letter.

And I don't know if it's bad enough that I'd want to pay to get it treated.

Yech. >:s How pleasant.

Indeedly, so it's all about sound pressures and frequency tolerance.

Someone tried to tell me it was completely psychological, even so that makes no sense, my feelings of unbalance have nothing to do with emotions/mentality.

Your lip popping is obnoxious but it won't cause me to puke on you. Terminal Choice is a band I like to listen to, but more than one or two songs will make me feel sick.

>:c no you~

but srsly
No, that's definitely not purely psychological...

No, I'm pretty confident it's an inner ear or ear to brain problem. But she was all "That's not a normal reaction and nausea and being upset are because you're probably associating the sound with something you don't like, you should talk to a psychiatrist not a doctor!"

Nah, I'd go to a doctor about that first.

Indeed, it feels just like my thing with heights and I'm kinda sensitive to feeling off balance and disoriented. Not to mention I pretty frequently feel like my ears need to pop or something. All stuff that can be caused by a screwy inner ear.

These problems developed some time after that one girl broke a bottle over my head during that sleep over some years ago. I thing she might have knocked something loose. Prior to that event I'd never really had any issues.

o _o Yeah, that'll do it.

I dunno what the cause of mine would be...

Who knows, stuff of that nature might just be normal for some people, even if it's not....typical.

But yes, I have suffered a head injury and I'm exhibiting symptoms of vestibular hyperacusis. DOCTOR is definitely more appropriate that PSYCHOLOGIST.

Indeed.

I wouldn't consider it normal. :s

Well most people I know have some kind of deeply averse reaction to at least one thing, be it a smell, a sensation or a sound. My friend Amber says that the smell of most perfumes make her feel really angry and irritable and smothered and my friend Brandon absolutely cannot tolerate the sound of coughing or multiple people talking at once. He has to leave the room because it unsettles him. One of my other friends won't touch woolly things or tolerate physical contact with them because the texture makes her feel itchy and gross.

...and none of that is normal.

But I wouldn't really consider it abnormal, aside from that one thing that bothers them there's nothing really wrong with any of them, I wouldn't say they need help.

To be bothered to such an extreme degree by a perfectly normal thing is an issue all on its own. It may or may not be tied to deeper problems, but it's definitely not the same as just disliking one particular thing and is not typical.

Roo, maybe you should get it looked at sometime then. But do you see a doctor or a therapist?

No idea. I wouldn't bother, though, at least not on my own. It's annoying and can cause issues, but it's not usually bad enough to interfere with day-to-day function.

Roo, but if were going to live together I'm gonna be eating around you, and whistling A LOT.

Depends on how loudly and what's going on at the same time. I always have to have background noise if I eat with another person, like watching tv together or something, because I cannot hear that. Can. Not.