Title says it all. What really irks you that you don’t get to complain about much without catching some glances? Seriously, get as passionate as you’d like. I assume you’re an expert.
The forgetfulness of neurotypicals regarding negative memories.
You see, you/they tend to forget all that negative stuff. We don’t. We keep it almost forever.
So something political happens, or with a influential person or company, or whatever and we look back and say… It’s a trap, did you forget xxx?
Yes, yes you did. And it’s very disheartening. Grifters can gift forever, blind the masses etc. We’re beginners forever as humanity.
Laundry detergent. The detergent instructions, coming from a biased manufacturer, will always tell you to use waaaaay too much in order to encourage consuming more. They stuff them with scents so that you can tell they are working and have a constant reminder with you about your purchasing decision. It’s bad for the washing machine- residues stick around and can clog things up and cause moving parts to wear out faster. In fact, washing machine manufacturers often recommend running loads of towels without adding any detergent a few times regularly just to clean out the excess.
I could always feel it on my skin and feel suffocated by it. When I lived in an apartment, most of the rest of the building was from some Caribbean country and used some expticly scented detergent in the shared laundry machines, so unless I wanted to spend time and money to run empty cycles I had to just deal with it. I’m so grateful now to have a house with my own machines that only see my own, unscented, detergent and in reasonable amounts. And it gets cleaning cycles regularly.
Omg yes this is the biggest scam.
I’m pretty sure research has indicated that it’s actually more effective to use too little detergent than too much detergent… so they’re literally stopping their products from working as well as they could.
I chose to be autistic before it was cool.
Moving things, then not returning it to the place of order. Not holding up order in drawers.
My blood relatives are SO MESSY AND DISGUSTING! The plate and cuplery still has food on it after dishwasher wash? They put it to the clean stuff.
I spend a day making the perfect order and organisation in their kitchen drawers saving lots of space, the next day its all chaos again where you again have to play tetris to fit the tools into the drawers.
Tell me how can 3 people last 3 years without exchanging their toothpaste? Answer they do because they dont brush their teeth!!
Not following the washing instructions! It says to be washed at 30°C NOT 90°C!! It only takes a few minutes to sort those differences too but safes a lot of money from constantly having to throw out shrunken cloths!
I haaaateee how my birthgiver complains i dont show interest in her, bitch your entire life is work, i never see you doing any hobbys. You go to work, get home, work more, then cook for the 28 year old offspring that still lives with you for some reason and that doesnt know how to cook, then work till 8 pm then watch TV and then sleep! Woman where are you hobbys?!? You got none! And the most interest you show in me is ask how the day was but no further engagement. Even if i tell you about the news from my life or my hobbys you dont even react. Ugh (Yes i got parential issues how could you tell?)
I dislike music in stores. Yes i get it “atmosphere” or smth but it would probably all be better for everyone if you shut it off so everyone can better focus!
But my biggest quirrel is how people dont just understand the concept of “disliking something because of texture”. I dont really have it, but my partner, and when ever other dont just accept it, but continue questioning it as if it were a debate or something one can just choose not to, ooh that brings me to boiling point of annoyance
Women’s and Children’s pants sizes. It’s an 11 WHAT? THE FUCK DOES THIS NUMBER MEAN GODDAMMIT?
All pants sizes should be Waist circumference, Hip circumference, and (in the case of pants versus shorts) Length to ankle. Objective and not subjective measurements. Something I can put a measuring tape to and confirm. It’s not perfect, as everybody is different, but at least I’m not trying to dress my children and remember “A size 12 in this brand is a size 10 in this brand” bullshit.
I nearly foamed at the mouth ranting about how this shit drives me insane.
The size of an inch or a centimeter is arbitrary. In fact, all measurements other than natural units are arbitrary. Units need not scale linearly either. E.g. dB or the Richter Scale. A women’s number 11 or a size 10 shoe or a meter are all equally valid units of measure. What is fucked is the delineation of “men’s” and “women’s” sizes and the fact that women’s clothes have fewer and shallower pockets.
How is a physical measurement that is universally agreed upon “arbitrary”?
What we call a centimeter can be however large we choose. Say it were twice as large as it is now and we all agreed that size is a centimeter. What if we chose the inch and the centimeter to be the same size? Agreement doesn’t negate the fact that we could have chosen it to be any arbitrary size.
The only true “universals” are universal constants like the speed of light or Planck’s Constant. They set boundaries and scales irrespective of the units we use to describe them.
That’s an interesting way of looking at things, but generally measurement standards are agreed upon. Regardless of whether they can change, that doesn’t negate their usefulness in measuring things now.
Oh god yes. For over 20 years i have bought pants that say: 32/32. Not really sure what it means, but i know that it’s length and waist or vice versa. They fit, every time. T-shirt is an M. Pullover a L. Why isn’t that not standardized? Why do women have a completely different system? Why is it different for children? Why are shoe sizes different depending on the brand?
Having worn mens clothes for most of my life, I was accustomed to being able to say I wear a 30-30 and get pants that fit every time regardless of brand.
When I started wearing women’s clothes (because I like being pretty), WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE SIZES? the hell even, how can you have a size zero? None of it makes sense!
The lack of nuanced thought.
Inefficient loading of the dishwasher.
You put the same things to the same place! So you can grab them as one when unloading, saving time.
You spread everything out! The more bunched it is, the harder it is for the water jets to hit and clean everything properly.
You put each thing into the most appropriate place! Big spoons go into the bigger bucket, small spoons in the smaller one, big plates into the row with the wider space between plates, smaller plates into the more narrow rows.
It’s incredible how most people load their dishwashers, they mostly just put stuff in wherever is closest.
Also, how in the fuck are they able to “fill” the entire dishwasher with just 5 small objects, but still manage to arrange them such that the dishwasher can’t get them clean? It’s like they have some kind of inverse TARDIS super power that only works on dishwashers.
Using blank lines to separate paragraphs in a document.
Word is really shit for paragraph spacing, particularly when it comes to text surrounding tables. Instead of manually adding paragraph spacing, people just hit Enter twice.
In Markdown this is fine, as it is smart and properly understands and renders this as paragraph spacing, but in Word, it adds a new line with an empty space. I understand this is not the user’s fault, but just Microsoft being shitty and dumb, but still…
I loathe this.
Street lights and cars. We have the technology to adjust street light brightness and color, if we must have them could we at least dim them in the evening and use warmer tones. Helps us, helps the nature.
Ban most of the private car driving and compensate by building tram/train tracks. The noise cars make is just obnoxious.
Also people not caring about the climate change and the environmental impact our culture has. Being comfortable is more important than making the right choices. People are willing to look away from almost anything as long as they don’t feel uncomfortable in their private lives.
… Slam on the break, not the gas? If you cant see, you accelerate? There are easier ways to get into accidents if thats what you want.
What I do is block the sun / light with my hand so I can see a bit of the road and then drive carefully.
As someone with light sensitive eyes, I sympathise with you on street lights and cars.
The pure white LEDs being put into every streetlight and car on the road nowadays are so unnatural and harsh to look at, and (for me at least) way more physically irritating to look at than the same brightness of warm lighting.
I hate them with a passion, and sincerely hope that governmental bodies will look to ban/limit their outdoor use in favour of warmer lighting.
Feeling/hearing the hum of electricity through the walls, plugs, etc.
It’s not just when things are on, but if they’re plugged in at all that they make even more noise. Drove me to a point I pulled every single electric and electronic object out of my room and brought back in only what I absolutely needed after about a week.
If I could turn off the circuit breaker to just my room for a breather I would in a heartbeat, but I live with other people. Alas.
The light fixture in my bathroom wastes energy and annoys people with this humming sound. I think it’s coming from the transformer. Just bleh. It’s a rental apartment but maybe I could get it replaced somehow. The ironic thing is that the new light tubes are powered directly by the mains, they stopped selling fluorescent tubes around here.
Anything and everything related to noises and sounds being so loud/unnecessary. It feels like the world keeps getting louder and louder for no reason. Speakerphones blasting music and full volume calls on speaker, thudding base/stereo systems, just the volume people seem to talk without any regard for the people around them is ridiculous. That’s not to mention any of my misophonia related triggers on top of it all. Some days I really wish I could turn my hearing off for a bit
I wish my neighborhood had specific hours for lawn work / leaf blowers / power washers. I’m sick of my noise canceling headphones.
People eating with their mouths open in an otherwise silent room.
loud noises in general, stuff like applauses annoy me to no end, crowds being overly cheerful for no reason, noisy vehicles
The smell of the smoke after a match is put out. Everyone else I know seems unbothered by it, meanwhile for me it’s extremely revolting, it causes a strong urge to get as far away from it as physically possible.
Huh I actually love that smell, and lately prefer it to scented candles which make me feel overwhelmed.
I’m getting the mental image of you just lighting and putting out matches for 30 minutes any time you want to freshen up the house 🤣
I mean, kind of! We used to have a candle in the bathroom, but now i just light a match and wave it around a couple times anytime I want it to smell better in there
Oh, well that’s different. Lighting a match after dropping some kids off at the pool is an ages-old tradition.
Advertsing.
Blessed Aiyuna, the stuff is inescapable. Our civilization has somehow decided that, if you have money, you have a goddess-given right to get ALL UP EVERY WHERE IN THE LIFE OF EVERY PERSON AND HEY YOU ARE NOT PAYING ENOUGH ATTENTION LET ME GET EVEN LOUDER SO YOU CAN HEAR ME EVEN IF YOU WALK OUT OF THE ROOM FOR YOUR OWN SANITY SINCE EVERYBODY ELSE IS JUST GOING TO BE LIKE, “WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT?”
It is not great.
Cables on computer mice, or stiff cables in general. The smell of christmas food.
