Stop Snoring Solutions

Question by : ASD question about a brutal annoyance?
I’ve never asked this question of anyone else before but there seem to be some very thoughtful people here so I thought I’d give it a shot.

I have ASD. Over the years I have fought tooth and nail to gain relatively good control over common problems that people with this disorder face. I go to college, I get good grades, I look people in the eye, and I communicate well. I’ve learned to handle stress decently, have mostly gotten over my grievances with loud sound/light, and I’m able to handle being touched enough to sustain having a girlfriend and a great relationship. In fact, no one can even tell there’s anything different about me at all, not that I’d care if they could.

However, the problem I have is with people who audibly breathe. That is, people who breathe heavily and audibly even while at rest. I’m not talking about if someone has just exerted and is out of breath (that doesn’t bother me). Obviously, people who snore are also a problem.

For some reason this stimuli quite simply infuriates me. I get so crazily angry I actually really want to kill the person who is breathing audibly (I refer to it as “snore-breathing.) I’m not even kidding or exaggerating one bit. It makes me so sickeningly mad, I don’t even have words to express my rage here. Obviously, I manage to keep my cool and not act out when around people who breathe like this, and sit there grinding my teeth in agony. But I hate it, and I’m tired of having to deal with this.

I wouldn’t really care, except that in college, you’re sitting around people all the time, and many of them audibly breathe. I cannot focus on the work at hand; it’s simply too distracting. I can’t even sleep in the same bed with my girlfriend without wearing earplugs because I can’t stand her breathing.

I’m miserable with this problem and I need a way to work through this. I’ve tried just bearing it, but it’s been this way for years and it’s not going to go away. I need a solution.

Anyone else have really bad stimuli annoyances like this? And if you do, can you fix them? What can I do? Any advice that could help me would be appreciated.
@fodaddy: If you don’t have AS or understand how it works at least you have no place commenting here. Your ignorance betrays you; don’t open your yap if you don’t have anything constructive to say here.
@fodaddy There was no assumption being made here. Your comment was in fact both ignorant and thoughtless. That’s just the way it is.
Also, you’re right, none of these answers here are what I had hoped for. I already wear earplugs; I just want a better solution than that.
As for annoyances, breathing annoys me because I have AS, as stated above. For people without it, I’m sure it’s no problem. And people aren’t “annoyed” by me because I don’t act or look any different than those around me. If they are annoyed by some aspect of me, then they’d be annoyed by anyone, because I’m no different than anyone else. Are you suggesting that because I have AS that I wouldn’t be able to tell if people viewed me differently? Once again, another ignorant ASSUMPTION on your part.

Best answer:

Answer by Benji
wow! what you just wrote describes my daughter. example – we could be watching tv as a family & she has to remind us how heavy we breathe when no-one else notices or hears this irritation of hers. same with eating, if someone around her is eating something like potato chips, she’ll rip into them as well. had her hearing checked & apparently her hearings in the highest range.
get your ears checked & reckon that’d be a good start & there must be some positive outcomes with having excellent hearing. good luck