For about a year and a half now, I've been very sensitive to sounds like whistling, and repetitive motions like the sight of someone sitting in class, jiggling their leg out of boredom. Those are my two biggest triggers. They both induce similar reactions in me. I feel almost threatened by these things, even though I am aware that these actions cannot physically harm me. ...And yet, these stimuli conjure up a feeling of terror. It's absolutely a fight or flight response. If I cannot fight (I ought not fight. Punching people is not a nice thing to do, no matter how badly I might want to or feel I need to), I must somehow protect myself from either stimulus.

In the case of whistling, I usually end up:
A) attempting to endure it, and end up inflicting upon myself the desire to hurt the whistler- I usually hit my head or leg hard with my hand; B) Immediately lashing out at the whistler by yelling at them to stop; C) Furiously and expressively stomping my feet and/or throwing a punch at the palm of my other hand before high tailing it out of the room.

My responses to leg jiggling are not much better:
I feel threatened and get angry, and I'll make every attempt to cover my eyes in such a way as to block the motion while still maintaining visual contact with the prof/whoever is speaking. If this fails, as it often does, I might grab the skin of my upper arm in a tight fist until it stops, and I'll display typical panic symptoms.

As for whistling, I've done research online and it sounds like a condition called misophonia. There is a numbered scale that describes the varying intensities of people's experiences. Let's just say I've got it bad.

I haven't found a similar condition concerning visual annoyances.

Anyone else here experience this problem as a part of their daily lives? I'm more than eager to hear any insight this forum may have to offer.