word sensitivity

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, you might want to look back through the archives, I bet you would find this helpful. I know in the past we've had some post sessions about words being funny. For me, i am very sensitive to words both spoken and in print. They can be just as painful as hearing a trigger noise. I go nutso. It's like sandpaper on my skin or against my poor little brain. Or they can be so soothing, I feel so relieved to see or hear them and I just turn them over and over in my mind, petting them in a way. Look back through b/c I know other people posted too about words that offend or comfort them. You're not crazy. It's a lot of us too

Tammy

To: Soundsensitivity Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 3:08:56 AMSubject: Re: All these years I thought I was just a bitch

Welcome!

I was interested to hear about your problem with the way words are pronounced. I've been like this for a long time, before other noises really started bothering me...this morning though I came across a word I don't like in text (it was on Twitter) and felt really ragey. I'm not sure if this is me being weird, or if it's related, because I mentioned it to my boyfriend who responded with something like "It's not even sound! Is that what the mailing list thinks you have this week?" I might just be easily annoyed, I suppose, but really?.

(Hmm...sorry for the rant.)

In response to some other things, I eat pretty much anything and everything, and we seem to have the same sort of problems, but I think yours are a bit more developed. I do occasionally suffer from mild anaemia (I'm a blood donor, when I can) even though my diet includes all the recommended food. I also get a strange blister form of eczema, and I think both the 4S and eczema get worse when I am stressed, which is happening a lot at work lately.

My maternal grandfather often stands in our kitchen doorway, jingling his keys, spare change, or opening and closing the drawers in our kitchen. He just can't seem to stop making noise! I'm not allowed to say anything, though, just like I'm not allowed to speak up about my father's eating habits.

I don't know if I've said anything that answers your questions or helps anyone else...^^; and sorry for jumping in with a question of my own.

Take care!

Hi, I'm new, female, and very private. I stumbled upon a forum discussing these issues whilst looking up stuff on the supplement SAM-e and was astounded.I have HATED eating sounds since I as a toddler. I can remember throwing food at my sister when she chewed her food. I'm not religious now, but part of why I hated church is because we always sat behind this old woman that would mess with her dentures making this lip smacking sound. I was probably 9 and would put my coat over my ears I hated it so much.When old men jingle change in their pockets I want to stab them!I can barely sit through dinners with my niece because she refuses to chew with her mouth shut. Incidentally, she is my sister's daughter and now my sister can't take this sound either.The sound of nail clippers destroys me as does cracking gum. My sister is the same now and literally took clippers out of someone's hands on the NYC subway and tossed

them out the door! Probably not wise, but I understand.Plate scraping, silverware clinking, throat noises, breathing, it all bugs me. I have a thing about really badly mispronounced stuff like "nuclear", or when people put an "r" in the word "wash" I immediately hate them.I'm afraid I'll never love anyone because of this. I didn't realize it but I only put myself in situations where loud music is so I don't have to hear so much else. I didn't drink much growing up but yeah vodka helps.I am a musician and I do have other health problems.I seem to have a wheat/dairy intolerance like autistic people do and wonder if there is some sort of connection there.I would like to know if any of you are vegetarians, vegans, follow a paleo diet (all meat), raw food, gluten free, diabetic or suffer from low blood sugar? I get ten times worse when I have low blood sugar but I don't have diabetes. Foods high in estrogen

make me worse as well. Meats with hormones, supplements that have estrogenic properties (tumeric, msm, licorice root, ginseng), but I don't know if that's just hormonal and nothing to do with this or what.I'm not in therapy, but now knowing about this as you all view it, I may have something to work with.No insurance though =(.