Ok, so throughout my entire life I've had this strange reaction to a seemingly normal noise that, now that I think about it, I really haven't encountered in anyone else.
It's the noise that is made when someone is writing with a dry marker, or when someone is rubbing their hand on a certain kind of extremely soft and fuzzy cloth. It makes me purse my lips, my arms feel numb, and it forces involuntary shudders throughout my body.
I haven't really thought about it much...it's always been the thing that people do to annoy me and we laugh about it, but I just experienced it a few minutes while trying to write with an old marker and it got me thinking. Is it something that happened in my past that makes me hate that noise? I'm guessing maybe some people are just born with that kind of reaction to certain noises?
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I'd wager it's sort of a "born with" problem, because I can't imagine a conditioned response from childhood lasting into adulthood without reinforcement. And I've been conditioned with an auditory trigger before.
Not everyone has to react to high pitched noises.
I mean I know other people have their unique triggers, I'm just curious as to why your trigger is latex rubbing and my trigger is a dry marker.
I once got one of my teeth fixed at the back of my mouth, and it ended up sticking out ever so slightly more than it was supposed to. I got exactly the same kind of noise in my jaw and reaction when I was eating and ground my teeth a certain way. Part of the reaction is opening my jaw, so this was a good thing at the time to protect it. My theory is that they are built in reactions to the noises teeth make when they are being damaged, as a kind of backup in case all the nerves that are the primary means of protecting them aren't working for whatever reason.
Why different people react to different ones to different degrees though is a mystery to me.
Weird thing is I never used to get it even with fingernails on a chalkboard, I know because I would do it to piss people off. No idea when it started either, probably early-mid teens. The only part of the reaction I get is shivers down my back though.
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High-pitched noises and noises with a certain...texture, lets say, do set a lot of people off, though. Its interesting, because you're 'supposed' to lose sensitivity to such as you age.
The sound of a quill or fountain pen being used makes my skin crawl, for some reason the scritching sound just bothers the bejeezus out of me. I get the same reaction from more typical creepy-crawly sounds like nails on a chalkboard or metal scraping on concrete.
Well it's a lot easier to tolerate something when you're the one who did it, but you still might have been immune. For me the sound itself doesn't bother me so much, but I have a weird thing about fingernails so it makes me think about the actual act and my fingernails feel vulnerable.
Yay, I'm not the only one.
Just about any complicated system that relies on a large number of interior and exterior interaction and depends on a large number of variables has its own quirks. That's what I'd chalk it up to.
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