Schatje,

First, welcome to PC! I’m really glad you found the site and joined!

Second, I don’t have a problem with stimulation, per say. If I like what is on the TV, radio etc. If it’s something I hate, yea I freak out. I don’t know what it is, but something about Elvis Presley’s voice really irritates me. We went into the cell phone store to get new phones for everyone in the family last Christmas, and they had it BLARRING I was like a caged lion, the clerk asked what was wrong and I had to ask that the music be turned down, I couldn’t take another second. A music group that I like, that level wouldn’t have phased me a bit.

A baby crying in a store, I mean WAILING, that goes right to my spine too. My husband and I worked second shift at the same place and we’d stop at an all night department store or grocery store to do our shopping. It never failed that there was some poor kid so tired that they just screamed, while mom was looking at clothes at 1am! I couldn’t take it, I’d have to leave. Movie theater, restaurant any public place a kid crying (tired crying specifically) just drives me up a wall. A kid can be laughing and screaming while playing and that doesn’t bother me a bit. I can even deal with a whiney kid, but that tired cry, I just can’t take it. This must be an age thing, I’ve got four kids, and they didn’t drive me nuts.

White noise makes me insane as well. I can’t believe that people actual purchase machines to make that noise for them! I’m not kidding I’ll be fine and a radio will go static or something and I’m just… I can’t even describe it.