Scratching paper.
It makes my skin crawl.
Microfiber towels sticking to dry skin on your hands like velcro. Soggy sandwich bread. The way cotton balls feel and sound when you pull them apart. Non-skid on bare feet. Wooden utensils or popsicle stick wood on my tongue. Being touched by dogs with wet beards. Trying to sleep in bed with dirty feet. Synthetic fragrances.
I’m sure there’s more.
I kind of understand why these things bother you. They don’t really bother me, except the synthetic fragrances, but I can get the gist. It’s kind of weird.
This whole thread shoulda come with a trigger warning, lol
Chewing gauze or tissue. Yes I had my wisdoms removed recently.
Many many things! Notably though: having anything on my hands (I cook and bake by stocking paper towels and an empty sink and reminding myself constantly I can stop and wash at any time), anything too tight clothing wise (this is so much stuff it sucks), strong perfumes, the scent of peanut butter, feeling a glass that has not been cleaned (it feels ugly)
Anything kinda powdery like flour, chalk in general, or things like dried mud or clay. Can’t stand them, especially on my hands and feet.
Yep! I do pottery and absolutely despise how my hands feel covered in dry clay.
I was considering you an outlier. Turns out you aren’t.
Agreed on chalk and similar feels.
In Germany we have sweets called “Traubenzucker” (according to my quick web search they are dextrose sweets) which also have this feel and it’s even worse in the mouth.Biting into meringue is also quite uncomfortable to me.
Loud music in restaurants
People reacting loudly at sports (sudden clapping, yelling, etc)
Velvet
Leather not letting sweat evaporate
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Each line needs to end in a double space for the newline to work.
Example.Oh jeez, that’s incredibly annoying.
Your edit looks like double-enter style. That works without the double-space, but makes two newlines. Bug or feature…
Or use a \ at the end of a line
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When hurricane Beryl hit us, Target was on generators with very minimal lighting and no music. It was such a great shopping experience, that I flagged down the manager and asked them to do this full time.
Of course they didn’t. But man, I miss that.
There’s a supermarket nearby that has a ‘quiet hour’ every day, mostly aimed at neurodivergent customers. I try to go at that time, it’s a much less stressful experience.
Some noise I do like though, if a store is dead quiet it feels like you can’t talk to anyone or even ask a vendor a question without being the attention of everyone in the surrounding area. There is a bit of privacy to a bit of noise. Though I agree to much is terrible.
earplugs have been a game changer for me. i haven’t been shopping without them for the last six months.
The way that glassware feels when it first comes out of the dishwasher and you’ve just washed your hands.
Fibers snagging on a chewed or broken nail
-Oil/butter on the cap or outside of the bottle/container it’s in. I don’t want to feel the oil when turning the cap or opening the container.
-Spaces that ventilate so hard the air feels dry and just makes you thirsty (most retail spaces).
-New car headlights that might as well be your brights.
-Standing in shower water. I need that water to flow down the drain… if it starts backing up, I’m not showering. I’m cleaning out the drain.
-How to describe this… my feet in the winter will be cold without socks, but with socks they tend to get warm enough to sweat which then makes them cold and now wrapped in a sock. There’s no winning.I hate things on my face. Glasses, masks, creams, etc. Covid mask requirements drove me crazy. Still followed them because I’m not an idiot or an asshole, but, boy was I always happy to get the fuck back to my car or home so I could remove it.
I also hate cacophonies. A single loud sound is annoying but not unbearable. Being in a crowded space where hundreds of people are talking, even at a normal volume, however, is maddening. I used to have recurring nightmares about people coming up to speak to me and when they opened their mouth, it was just that murmuring sound of a large crowd. Shit gives me the willies. 😬
Ever been to a busy gun range? Within 20-minutes my entire body is vibrating. I wouldn’t shoot if I didn’t have my own range in the boondocks.
An indoor range? Never. Plenty of outdoor ones. Mostly as a cub scout, so it was all super low caliber shit (.22s and shotguns). that wasn’t really all that loud. Loudest thing I ever fired was a random 30 ought 6; only ever knew it as that. Even with ear protection, that thing hurt to shoot.
being indoors, surrounded by concrete and firing guns tho? I can only imagine it being pretty bad.
Stickiness anywhere on my body, but it most often happens when I eat something sticky with my hands like a caramel or something.
Having something stuck between my teeth.
Eating noises
I wouldn’t mind it being legal but oh my god I can’t stand the smell of weed
