Sensitivity to Page Turning - Any other crazy idiosyncrasies?

[1xmom]

My dd is 7 and when we read and I turn the page it irritates her : . It is actually the way the page is turned and the "noise" it makes. One day I was reading to her and just turn the page and she said "Mom, don't do that." I didn't know what she was talking about, well after a little while she yells "Stop, doing that!" After I got her calmed down and me unfrazzled I figured out it was when I turn the page and take my hand down the page. Realistically, you barely hear it, but to her it's like nails on a chalkboard. Go figure

[Lady Lilya]

I couldn't stand my mom filing her nails with an emery board. Never had a problem with nails on a chalkboard, though.

I don't like ice in my drink if it is already cold. To me, having a drink without ice gives you the choice to sip or gulp. Once you add ice, you are limited to sipping. So adding ice to an already-cold drink gives no benefit, but limits your freedom to drink as you will.

My husband drives me nuts at dinner time. Everything is ready, and we sit down, but then he always finds a gazillion reasons to get up and adjust something in the environment. Often in another room. Up and down and up and down, and it makes me so tense while I am trying to eat. I tried the method of asking him what he was doing, so that in the future I could do it for him in advance of dinner and he wouldn't have to get up. He wouldn't tell me because he doesn't want to make more work for me! I couldn't get him to understand that I would rather do those little tasks then have my dinner ruined. Now, when he gets up, I just stop trying to eat and wait until he is fully settled before I start again.

P.S. He does that with the bed and bedroom at bed time. I can't go to sleep before he comes in, because he will start rearranging everything. If I am tired and want to go to sleep and he doesn't want to, I will ask him to come in and adjust things so he won't have to later. I have been getting the hang of how he likes things, so these days it is easier.

I think he is more high maintenance than me because he grew up in a household where he had more control over his immediate environment and nobody messing with it. He had his own room and nobody interfered with it. I, on the other hand, grew up in chaos. Nothing that was mine was sacred, and people were always messing with my room and stuff. I am used to things never being the way i left them or the way i wanted them. It just doesn't bother me to eat or sleep in a disordered place.

But it DOES bother me to eat and sleep with a lot of movement going on. Because of living in such chaos as a child, I used to have nightmares that I was sick in bed and there were people jumping on it.

[staceychev]

Is she OK when she turns the page? i.e., is this going to affect her reading ability?

My dad can't stand the sound of styrofoam. Every Christmas, we'd have the time after opening presents when Dad would leave the room so we could actually take "packed" things out of boxes.

[marlne]

My 12yr old has issues with the sound of pencil on paper and when you rub skin together. Like when my younger child is playing and rubs her feet together. It drives my 12yr old batty!

[carmel23]

I am intolerant of people eating loudly or drinking loudly if I am not eating.

[being]

[QUOTE=carmel23;8572484]I am intolerant of people eating loudly or drinking loudly QUOTE]
I have same intolerance.
Also the sound of someone unwrapping a plastic wrapped food or snack item or unwrapping subs etc from paper wrapping -this particularly bothers me when someone trying to be discreet -ever so slowwwly unwraps the item ...
i used to wear earplugs during exam times so as to avoid feeling adversely stimulated by tapping pencils etc...
The discomfort these & other elicited was & quite extreme & such a drag to experience as well..

[limabean]

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya

My husband drives me nuts at dinner time. Everything is ready, and we sit down, but then he always finds a gazillion reasons to get up and adjust something in the environment.

MINE TOO!! Oh, it drives me crazy. He sits down, then gets up to let the dog out, then sits down, then gets up to get an extra napkin, then sits down, then gets up to turn some music on, then sits down, then gets up to get a coaster ... and on and on and on. :

Anyway, OP, have you tried letting her turn the page? Or going back to reading board books for a while until she gets over her sensitivity? I've been sensitive to random noises before too, and it's just something visceral that happens. Like when I hear someone eating an apple it's all I can do to not stick a fork in their eye -- something about that noise just flips my "rage" switch, I have no idea why!

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I can NOT stand to hear someone snap their gum. I think it is the rudest thing anybody can do. And why do ONLY women do it?

I also can't stand the sound of women's heavy sandals in a store. It sounds like a horse clomping through Target.

[velochic]

I think probably most people have these little idiosyncrasies. I can't think of any for dd or dh, but I have one. My mother lives with us and she insists on growing her fingernails really long. Then she talks with her hands by scraping her nails around in circles on the table. Most of the time I can't even hear what she is saying because I just focus on those scraping nails.

[Nature]

The sound of cotton balls. Can't touch them... because I can hear them squeek and it is horrible for me.

[Lady Lilya]

My grandfather couldn't stand the texture of peach fuzz. He used to make my mom peel them for him. He couldn't even touch a peach. When nectarines became available, he was so happy.

[1xmom]

Is she OK when she turns the page? i.e., is this going to affect her reading ability?

Yes, she now turns the page and she is doing more independent reading so it is better and fortunately it hasn't affected her reading ability at all.

The sound of cotton balls. Can't touch them... because I can hear them squeek and it is horrible for me.

That's a new one. But I do know what you mean. We have these big cotton balls it was funny b/c w/these it's the first time I really heard cotton balls.

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Originally Posted by Nature

The sound of cotton balls. Can't touch them... because I can hear them squeek and it is horrible for me.

LOL.

I have to wet the Q-tip before I can clean my ears with them because I can hear the cotton. I also will use cotton balls to clean my face, but not the little cotton pads, because they squeak.

[oregongirlie]

I once had a roommate who asked me to stop reading in bed because the page turning bothered her. She lived with me for a while in a studio when she was in between places.

Once I got up to get a glass of water in the middle of the night and left the empty glass in the sink. She then got up, washed the glass, dried it, put it away. At 2 am.

I had to ask her to move out.

[Laggie]

I cannot stand to hear nail clippers being used. It grosses me out. In my family, nails were clipped in the bathroom, over the sink or toilet. NOT in the living room and certainly not in the kitchen.

I have gotten off the bus because somebody started clipping their nails (disgusting!)

[limabean]

Originally Posted by Laggie

I cannot stand to hear nail clippers being used. It grosses me out. In my family, nails were clipped in the bathroom, over the sink or toilet. NOT in the living room and certainly not in the kitchen.

Yeah, that was always a bathroom activity in my house growing up too. But DH says that *several* of his coworkers do it at their desk at work! I don't understand how it is that they don't have a 90-second pocket of time available to do that at least at home, if not in their bathroom. My DH says he just sits at his desk and fumes every time he hears the clipping start up.

[Lady Lilya]

When I worked for a Japanese company, they all clipped their nails at work. They said there is a Japanese superstition against cutting your nails after dark. Since they all worked late, if they waited to do it at home it would be dark, so they just did it at work.

It bothers me to see someone brush their teeth or floss. Mouths in general feel dirty to me. I especially hated when I lived with my in-laws and they would floss their teeth in the living room while watching television and then leave bits of used floss all over the coffee table and couch.

[Laggie]

Ew... tooth floss in the living room? That's making me cringe just thinking about it. Almost as gross as toenails sticking up out of the carpet (barf).

[bigeyes]

DS can't stand the squeaky sound silverware makes on dishes.

I cannot stand the sound of chalk, dust on concrete when your feet slide, pencils on paper, files, especially that horrible sanding block at a nail salon! Any scratchy noise sends me right through the roof.

Slow movements annoy me greatly, which is probably something that harks back to my previous hyperthyroidism. I move quickly and react quickly, so when other people don't it drives me batty. If I can unwrap a sandwich, open a bottle of water and my napkin and then eat.... why is it that you are still fiddling with the salt shaker, shaking your drink, tearing at the mustard packet, arranging your napkin just so and making a trip to the bathroom when I have my keys out ? Do they even still make valium?

[Lady Lilya]

Big Eyes, I know what you mean about people moving slowly.

When there is a lot to do and I enlist my husband's help, I will give him a task to do, thinking it should take X amount of time and in that time I will get done Y and Z. In my mind I am timing things in the order they need to be done, so the thing i have to do after Y and Z depends on him finishing X first. I get done with my things, and he still barely started on X!

I move quickly and efficiently, not wasting steps and movements.

It also irritates me that if I give him more than one task, he will do only one and then forget the second. I tried to fix this by telling him just to do X and then come back to me and tell me you are done so I can give you the next thing. Instead of doing that, he does X and then I will find him an hour later playing something on the computer or something.

It is hard for me not to speak to him in a parental sort of scolding tone when he does these things. I get really irritated, but I don't want it in our relationship that I parent him.

So, I usually end up doing everything myself.