Phones

I have come to the conclusion that the Aspie's dislike of loud noises manifests in me in the sound of the telephone ringing, particularly the sound of a landline phone. Some people can sleep through that sound, but if the land phone rings and I am asleep, I will wake up every time. This goes hand in hand with my dislike of alarm clock rings. I usually put my alarm clock on the radio to wake up, because if it is on the alarm, when it goes off I will almost leap above my bed with my arms flung out as if a bomb just went off. It is highly underpleasant. Strangely though, I have no problem with the noise of trains (we regularly have trains go by just miles from our house) or with vacuums or airplanes. Car horns though, screaming babies, and shrieking teenagers really hurt my ears.