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We all respond to different stimuli in different ways.
My sister, for example, has Aspergers and as a child abhorred anything loud.
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I have tinnitus which is quite annoying, and no matter where you are it is with you every waking moment.
No cure. I have learned to switch out and ignore it. What else is to do?
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sounds like a problem to me. I have not met anyone else who has had such the issue you describe. This can only mean you are wierd. Go see a doctor. Oh, you might wanna try grabbing two lemons and go to the nearest pool, sit on the bottom as long as you can with the lemons by your ears, this is an old remedy that my grandmother gave me for being weird.
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The sound of teeth grinding makes me want to slap on the ninja-wear and take a person out. Automatic, full constriction of all muscles. Imagine a camera pointed taking that perfect timing picture.......
Also when those cars go rollin' by with the bass up way too damn loud for the 'burbs even, I can't do anything but seethe. Goes right through my head.
I had about constant swimmer's ear as a kid and sometimes have to tilt my head and stand closer to people after asking them "What?" 
All this seems pointless......but it sounds (heh pun) to me like you're taking out other life frustrations on noises and the focus on them becomes worse and worse as time goes on, because they're there to focus on while other things don't get fixed. It will take a lot for you to let go of that. Your area you live in probably dictates that you must live in an apartment which means the noise doesn't go away.
There is nothing you can do about it. You can't control this one, only on your end.
Get to a doc if you can and get your hearing tested to see if something else isn't going on there physically, then hit the psychological end of it.
Not a doc myself, so you can just laugh at me if you prefer. 
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| Philosophos wrote: | Sometimes it does, mostly it doesn't.
But I grew up in a city, and so am able to tune out noise fairly easily. Many rural folks I know can't do that. |
I'm the same way...must be a city thing. I don't hear anything, people talk about last night's thunderstorm or the cops showing up next door and I'm like "What?". Funny thing is, its silence that gets me. I've been so surrounded by noise my whole life that if the AC shuts off or the sprinklers stop it's like the world disappeared or something.
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I have to wear earplugs at night or I can't sleep well. Any noise bothers me at night, although not as badly as it used to. In the daytime, I can ignore most noises, except for a few. It irritates me when someone in the apartment turns up their TV or radio too loudly, or when some dumbshit parks in the alley below with their radio on loudly. It usually doesn't last long, though, so I can more or less tolerate it. My landlord is very strict about his tenants keeping the noise levels down.
| Quote: | | If you heard a dog barking constantley would it get to you, if you lived in an apartment on the 2nd floor and the front door on the 1st floor was pretty heavy and it was loud whenever it slammed and it shook your apartment would you ask the people to try and close the door slowly |
Maybe you should ask the landlord to install a new closing mechanism on the door so it doesn't slam shut. Not sure if you can do much about the dog, though. It might constitute disturbing the peace and you can call the cops, but I doubt they'll take you seriously.
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| ApostateLois wrote: | | Not sure if you can do much about the dog, though. |
Two words: rat poison.
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would you be happier if you were deaf?
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I live right between I-95 and US1, about a half mile from both. I crack the window so I can hear the traffic while I sleep. I don't know how people can function in silence.
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| Hit_me_up024 wrote: | | would you be happier if you were deaf? |
it is very fucked up to say and I have probably taken many years off my life with the stress I've gone through the last few years, but if I was deaf it would probably solve some major problems in my life, but no I dont wish I was deaf |
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| FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | I live right between I-95 and US1, about a half mile from both. I crack the window so I can hear the traffic while I sleep. I don't know how people can function in silence. |
so if you were living in a major war zone and there was a 4.0 earthquake going on you'd be able to sleep? |
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| KL79 wrote: | | FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | I live right between I-95 and US1, about a half mile from both. I crack the window so I can hear the traffic while I sleep. I don't know how people can function in silence. |
so if you were living in a major war zone and there was a 4.0 earthquake going on you'd be able to sleep? |
I don't know if I would go that far. But whenever I hear my neighbors talk about the thunderstorm or the sirens or the loud party down the block the next morning I never know what they're talking about. I didn't hear a thing.
It's like Phil said. We have city ears. We don't hear noise, we hear quiet. The more quiet, the more deafening. And sneaking. If you kicked in my door I would barely turn over. But pick the lock or tiptoe around...I'll spring out of bed ready for war.
I can't sleep in silence. It makes the walls close in on me.
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I cant sleep without music or the tv on
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| FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | I live right between I-95 and US1, about a half mile from both. I crack the window so I can hear the traffic while I sleep. I don't know how people can function in silence. |
Interesting, I as well, live between 1-95 and US1, a half mile to the former and 2 to the latter. Which state you in?
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| aitm wrote: | | FlatEarth1024 wrote: | | I live right between I-95 and US1, about a half mile from both. I crack the window so I can hear the traffic while I sleep. I don't know how people can function in silence. |
Interesting, I as well, live between 1-95 and US1, a half mile to the former and 2 to the latter. Which state you in? |
I'm right up the road from you between Daytona and St Augustine. There's a 95/US1 merge about a half mile up, so both highways are literally like 6 blocks from my house in either direction. In the daytime you hear all the local US1 stuff, and at night you hear the speed demons on the highway.
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