Alternatively, autistic (coded) behaviours just being a joke.
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Oh yeah I noticed it earlier, actually. Yeah the AC does whine a bit.
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THANK you! So why aren’t you going insane?
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I just decided to not let it bother me.
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YOU WHAT
Shitty USB chargers get to me. They all produce an electrical pitch.
I keep a spectral analyzer app on my phone so I can check if it’s a real noise or just tinnitus settling in.
Spectal Analyzer Pro. There’s a free version too.
It’s practically abandonware at this point.
SERIOUSLY. I have an mx ergo, and for some reason the FUCKING IDIOT hardware designers at logitech decided that it NEEDED a soft blinking charge indicator, which sucks doubly as much as whine from a basic LED flashing because now it ramps up and down, continually, until charged.
Thank god i only need to charge it like once every 4 months or so.
Back in high school, as part of my IEP, I was “allowed” (by which I mean forced) to take my tests in a different room from the other students. This other room was the resource teacher’s classroom, and she tried to be “accommodating” by removing all of the very distracting flyers from her walls and making the room into a sterile white box which I was not allowed to leave until my test was finished. In addition, the room was completely silent with the exception of a printer, which had a blinking LED in standby mode and occasionally woke up the WiFi chip to check for new print jobs. It whined like ANYTHING. If tuning out a constant whine that alternated between two pitches every half second wasn’t hard enough, every ten seconds, it would go up to a third, higher pitch, warble for a second or so, then go back to the first two.
I was stuck in that room for an hour every day after school because no one could figure out what was taking me so long to finish my exams (even after I told them). (They wouldn’t let me unplug the printer during that hour, naturally – what if the resource teacher suddenly needs to send a print job to it from across campus, while coaching the volleyball team?) It’s been four years since I graduated and I’m still mad.
(Oh, right, I forgot to mention – the resource teacher was also the volleyball coach, so she couldn’t stay to monitor my tests. The person who did was a middle aged lady who spent the entire time on her Chromebook and occasionally interrupted my test to show me a Facebook meme. She didn’t even look at me apart from that.)
it doesn’t stop the noise, unfortunately. I would have to figure out what’s causing it first and then probably glue it down to prevent it from moving at all. That might not even work.
Both. My wife is the super genius but sensitive to light, sound and smell. She wear special glasses, age has taken the edge off her sensitive hearing, and COVID-19 practically deleted her sense of smell. She’s never been happier. Her new favorite thing to do is walk around theme parks because the sounds and smells no longer bother her.
100%. She’s lost a ton of weight and is as skinny today as when we met 30 years ago. She says she just doesn’t really enjoy food any more and she can eat super spicy now. She’s turned into one of those suited guys from Fringe where they put on a ton of hit sauce on everything because they couldn’t taste anything otherwise.
Idk why folks are complaining… The movie the predator told me that autism’s the next step in human evolution.
I really feel like I should /s this comment.
I feel it’s more like species specialization. Like ants.
Some humans can do complex math, some get angry and kill people when their sports team loses.
Considering how hard it is to date outside the spectrum pool, I think over time we will see significantly more specialization and separation with definite physical markers and cultures.
I remember how, as a kid, my room was next to the electricity meter which had this constant low hum and I more often than not just could not fall asleep, with my parents wondering how that could even be with “how silent it is”. And of course, if my parents or older siblings were watching TV in the evening in another room, that were some guaranteed sleepless hours as well.
Nowadays, I always sleep with earplugs and often even a sleeping mask, because even a few stray photons can completely ruin my sleep. I am thankful, that I’m not sensitive to the feeling of earplugs in my ears and find the pressure over my eyes soothing instead of stressful. But if I get any kind of inflammation of the ear canal or something similar, it’s right back to minor noises keeping me awake, urgh.
Funnily enough, I was sleeping with music since I was a kid, so if noises (or my tinnitus) is bothering me, I just have to drown it out with music. In fact, my tinnitus has the silver lining that it drowns small sounds, and I’ve mostly learned to ignore the tinnitus itself.
Kind of out of left field, so please ignore this at any point if it isn’t useful to you.
I have an acquaintance that has a similar issue. Not exactly the same, since light doesn’t bother him. But, as he’s tried ways to deal with sound sensitivity, over-ear active noise cancelling headphones have worked well when there’s some reason earplugs can’t be used.
Which, not everyone can stand the pressure on their outer ear, or be able to sleep with them on. So, again I hope the unsolicited bit of information is helpful rather than intrusive, and feel free to tell me to bugger off if you like.
Oh, it’s fine, I can empathise with worrying about giving advice, but it is much appreciated <3
I am usually walking around with noise-cancelling, over-ear earphones most of my waking time, ever since I realised I am autistic and not just a mess of a human being (only dived deep into the topic very recently, have gone undiagnosed up until now and am now on a waiting list for an official diagnosis in my 30s, but my current psychiatrist already agrees with my assessment, they are just not allowed to diagnose me.) Those earphones have been a lifesaver!
Unfortunately, sleeping with them doesn’t really work for me, as I am sleeping on my side, and even with small in-ear headphones, I found it just not working out the way I toss and turn from one side to the other. But I am sure your advice could be helpful to others, so don’t hold back :)
Reread your comment and this may not be for you due to the tossing and turning, but in case it helps someone else: Have you tried changing pillows?
Specifically, I’m thinking of buckwheat hull pillows. I sometimes make a depression to fit the headphones, even the big over-the-ear style. It’s the only way I can sleep in them.
