For me, for example, is a cigarette smoke, I can’t stand it.

Loud and noisy places in general. One of the scariest parts of USMC boot camp for me was the rifle range because of the gun fire. I would stress out that my ear plugs weren’t in good enough. I also remember wondering how other recruits seemed completely unbothered by it.

Gas-powered lawn equipment. Weed whackers and leaf blowers in particular. All mine are electric.

Large social groups. It’s like it’s too much to keep track of, too many people with differing intentions, and everyone is traveling in different directions. It’s disorienting.

When I was a child, it was car a/c. For some reason, it would give me headaches. I had to travel with the windows down…except for on the expressway because it was too loud. In that case, we would turn on the a/c very lightly.

Apparently, smells. They too can be disorienting. I lose it with farts. In my mid 30s, I went on a date with a girl I had recently started dating. We were at a bar outside of a military base. While there, someone drops a hell of a fart. My completely-normal-to-me reaction was to put my shirt collar over my nose and walk around a little. My date started laughing, maybe thinking I was joking. The person farted a few more times. She made fun of me for that for years. In retrospect, I think it was her that was farting, which is why she found it so funny.

More recently, I was at a dance class a few months ago. We were practicing moves by repeating them. Someone farted at least 4 times, and it was terrible. I don’t know how they had the audacity to keep farting after the first one, or how no one said anything. I was getting disoriented and messing up my moves. I was visibly upset in the mirror and so close to leaving. I’m pretty sure I know who it was, so now every time I see them, I get upset and a little nauseous. 😠🤢 I don’t like being around them at all and even saying hi to them.

The taste of several specific things (cheese that “turned bad”, garlic that isn’t perfectly fresh), high-pitched sounds, and a few more I don’t have in mind.

I’m sensitive to a lot of things, but mostly loud noises, violence, drama, and bad horror.

I usually see a lot of these in lots of media I consume: mostly movies, television, games, comics, and especially anime and manga.

I originally grew up on manga and anime when I was little and read what I could until a few of those series bothered me enough that I put it down even for the smallest reasons.

Then there are other stuff they put in media that make me stumble when I see them.

In contrast, my father likes watching movies a lot because it is an easy way to stay busy, but the same can’t be said for the movies we watched together that I despised watching.

You could say I function differently as well.