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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is 13 and is a generally really easy kid. He is a little Type A. He is very mature. He is gifted and does well in school. He gets along with people.

However, some things really bother him. He gets very angry about it.
Two things come to mind.

1) singing. If I sing he loses his shit. Same with my husband singing, he screams for us to stop. He tells us we are terrible singers. It's an extreme over reaction. I'm tired of not being able to sing in my car or house. Tonight I was singing and he got furious and went into the yard so he wouldn't have to hear it.

2) sounds his brother makes. His brother has ADHD and often taps his foot on the hardwood floor or similar sounds. He gets angry and yells for his brother to stop.

I have tolerated this for a while but it's getting to the point that it's getting under my skin.
What should I do? 
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Hi OP,
I don't know if I have any advice for you on coping with this, but I just wanted to say that I can empathize with your son. Ever since I was young, certain sounds, noises and even words would cause me to become incredibly irritable. The main one right now is loud chewing and slurping. I posted about this on dcum once and people said it was misophonia. I'm not sure if that's what it is, but it seems to fit me pretty well.

I also get annoyed at repetitive sounds like tapping a foot or pen. If my son begins chewing his water bottle the noise makes me crazy and I take the water bottle away. I tell my husband to quit singing if he starts singing in the car. When I was younger, I would get so distracted by hearing the person next to me breathing too loud in class that I would have to get up and leave the room. I also couldn't sit at the dinner table with my family because the chewing noises my stepdad made repulsed me. There are more examples, but I won't get into it all. I have gotten better as I've gotten older, and my reaction has really, really improved the older I get, but I still deal with the heightened awareness of the noises. One thing I've tried is using earplugs when I am able to. I had a neighbor that had two dogs that barked all the time and I used the ear plugs a lot to keep myself sane. But we actually had to move because it was so bad.

Good luck with your son OP.[/quote]

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