I am a 38-year-old female who is child-free by choice. I am an only child and I have no first cousins. I have epilepsy and had ear surgery when I was four, so I have X's as scars on my eardrums. I cannot even enjoy seeing my niece and nephew (2 and 1, respectively) because they squeal so loud ... I'm talking ear-splitting
(example: just saw them and my in-laws today ... and had to excuse myself from the dinner table twice because I was having severe headaches from their squeals and each time had to walk outside for 30 minutes.) I understand that squealing is sometimes the only way little ones can communicate, but my tolerance level is zero. By contrast, I can mow the lawn without earplugs and it doesn't bother me. Does this sound like a classic example of someone (meaning me) not being cut out to be a parent?
I hate the squealing and I don't even have a medical excuse. It's ear-shattering any way you slice it up!!! I will never ever understand why children shriek.
I also have a VERY deep seated poo phobia. I figure those two things plus a few more are classic examples of not being cut out to be a parent. And I don't care what anyone says... you might not get used to it. And if you never do, that's a hell of an experiment.
I also hate loud babies, if its not physically painful, it will at least ruin any conversations.
As for parenthood, that by itself might not mean you're CF, but would make it much more difficult. At least when you're visting loud kids you can leave or excuse yourself. If you're the parent, you gotta put up with it and quiet the kid down.
I'm another person who finds it physically painful -- like knives being stabbed in my ears.
It's painful to me as well. I even cringe at seeing a child enter a place where I am because I anticipate the screams in advance.
I can't stand that high-pitched squealing either. It is an extremely unpleasant and painful tone. I'd rather hear a lawnmower than a child screaming.
Same here, one of THE most annoying sounds on earth. I hate how kids scream for no reason, at the top of their lungs, over and over.
Talk show radio host Randi Rhodes once said that they should make car alarm sounds out of shrieking babies and kids, that would keep people miles away.
Shrieking bastards make me insane. Last summer some new trashy redneck couple from Louisiana moved to our street, and the mother doesn't work and they have about 4-5 kids under the age of 6. She took them to the pool every single day and those fuckers shrieked non-stop from 10am-6pm, until daddy got home for dinner. I was trying to study for my course back then, and I couldn't read anything, I couldn't concentrate. These houses are packed so tightly that everything echoes everywhere, there's no AC because it's coastal southern California, so you have to leave your windows open 24/7 or burn up all to hell. I wanted to literally kill these kids, I would hope one of them would drown, the mother just sits there suntanning herself while reading gossip magazines, she'd never notice. Soon it will be warm enough for them to hit the pool again, and I'm going to have to make a complaint to the HOA this year because they fucking suck.
I effing HATE it. Any time I hear it, the individuals in question get a really dirty look. It's painful, even to someone who has no physical problems. Add to that the fact that sudden, loud noises set me on edge, and it's just not good.
I really wish people would leave their kids at home until they are at least 5 years old.
Jen M.
(06-01-2010 06:25 PM)Bittercat Wrote: [ -> ]I effing HATE it. Any time I hear it, the individuals in question get a really dirty look. It's painful, even to someone who has no physical problems. Add to that the fact that sudden, loud noises set me on edge, and it's just not good.
I really wish people would leave their kids at home until they are at least 5 years old.
Jen M.
LOL Bittercat. I too give them parents a look, that if looks could kill, they would be dead. Once I hear their brats go off on a scream-a thon, lol ITA why can't parents just leave their brats at home where they belong.
Grrrrrrr I hate the sound of screaming babies and toddlers. That for me is more annoying then insects and I can't stand insects, lol
I HATE that shrieking too -- even outdoors or in a large indoor area. Even if the noise isn't right next to me, it still sets me on edge.
I don't think kids need to do it. A good friend of mine would always correct her son when he screamed or shrieked. Even when he was tiny she would sternly tell him to stop that shrieking! He doesn't do it very much and not to surprisingly communicates very well.
We had neighbours with screechy kids that were outside All THE TIME. It drove us nuts. I swear to god, the mother made them go outside so she wouldn't have to listen to their screechy voices.
One day, I had enough and called the cops. It was a Saturday afternoon and they had been out there all morning screaming away. The person on the phone said there wasn't much they could do about it as it was a Saturday afternoon and kids will be kids. I finally told her that I thought the kids were being abused. Why else would they be screaming like that. Sure enough, a cop car was sent out and the screeching stopped.
Later that night, D and I went for a walk and went past the house. There was a huge sign in the front window that read "FUCK YOU". I can't be totally sure but I think that it was directed at whoever called the cops - which was us.
D and I laughed our asses off for days after that. We still get a chuckle out of it.
Luckily, they moved away shortly after that.
NKB, that is AWESOME! LOL!
The sign just makes it even funnier!
Jen M.
High-pitched screams and noises are physically painful to me, as well. It pisses me off because you can't go anywhere without breeders who let their kids scream their heads off. My parents would have NEVER tolerated that kind of behavior.
I love the sign they posted. Too bad nobody called about obscenity...for the children of course.
What bothers me is parents who don't seem to mind or care that their offspring are shrieking and screaming (or may I add, hitting, kicking and biting) in public. When kids I don't know do this, I can leave, but my problem is that it's my friends and in-laws who seem to just let their kids do this and either they don't notice or they don't want to stop them (don't want to offend the kindergarchy and all that)
ugh, it drives me absolutely batty!
I absolutely HATE that sound. I dont have the best hearing in the world, too many rock/metal concerts, but as soon as a brat does that high pitch squeal, i am immediately on edge and want to slap the parents for letting their sprog disrupt everyone around them.
I utterly hate that sound, and if a kid does it near me, I put my hands over my ears and scream, "Jesus H. CHRIST!" at the top of my lungs. I mean, if they can make noise, so can I.
We had a neighbor years ago who actually encouraged his kid to shriek. He was one of those older parents - the guy must have been 50 if he was a day. His 2yo would SCREAM repeatedly and the dad would laugh and scream back.
Just thinking about that screeching noise I can feel an actual shadow of pain in my ear/side of face area. It almost hurts on the roof of my mouth region - not sure if this experience resonates with anyone else.
The worst two places to hear that sound are the movies and restaurants. MOST other places you can laugh and get the hell out of Dodge, but in restaurants and the movies you are stuck. I laugh when it happens at the grocery store because I don't have to deal with it.
