I hate loud noises. Hate, hate, hate, HATE loud noises. Especially when there's nothing I can do to make them stop or leave the situation--I slowly start losing my shit and I can't handle being around it. Partly because I just generally hate loud noise and it makes me uncomfortable and I can't think or concentrate, and partly because it emphasizes my hearing loss, which embarrasses me. Mostly, though, I just CANNOT STAND LOUD NOISE. I can tune a lot out or listen to music or watch TV or something and distract myself but when the noise is loud enough, I can't do anything but just sit helplessly and feel my nerves frazzle and fray until I completely lose my mind.
I. HATE. LOUD. NOISE.
Boything and Housemate have friends over and they're playing 'Halo'. They do this a few times a month and I know I have zero right to complain because they don't do it often, but whenever they get together they scream and shout at each other so loudly that sometimes the neighbours come over to complain and once we got a call from the superintendent of the complex because people had complained to HIM about the noise they make. I can't go anywhere and just get out of the house and no amount of TV or computer sound will drown them out. I had to sit in the middle of their SCREAMSHOUT FESTIVAL OF HORRIBLENESS while I was eating lunch because we're not allowed to eat upstairs and they were shouting at each other so loud it made my inner ears itch. Boything especially has this unnaturally loud cackle that sounds like the owl character Archimedes from the Disney 'Sword in the Stone' movie.
They don't even sound like they're having fun more than half the time. I know that's totally just a guy thing and they scream and roar and shout and SHOUT extraordinarily loudly at each other as a sign of affection or whatever bullshit, but they genuinely don't sound at all like they're having fun and are just yelling at the game, their controllers, and each other. They do the same thing at their twice-monthly D&D game, as well--except there are MORE people and it's even LOUDER. I can't stand being around them wen they're like this. Boything and Housemate give me flak all the goddamn time for not wanting to hang out when they have people over to play games, but no matter how many times I try I can't make them understand that the noise they make puts me off and makes me very nearly want to cry from frustration. I came upstairs to try and get some peace but I can still hear them LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD and clear while they're shouting at each other.
Teal Deer: I hate loud noise and I'm surrounded by it at least two weekends a month with nowhere to go to get away from it, and somehow I manage to end up being the bad guy because I don't want to 'be social' around people who are screaming too loudly at each other for social behaviour to even take place. I am going to lose my shit.
