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.
Strong smells, especially campfire. Cannot stand the smell of campfire. Gives me headaches and makes me super sneezy.
I don’t have AC, and it’s legal to have campfires in town in private yards, which means I have the joy of being uncomfortable nearly every nice night for half the year. If I open windows for the nice breeze, my house stinks of smoke, if I keep the windows closed, it stays hot. Can’t win because people are selfish af.
People should not be allowed to burn shit in town, regardless of the fire spread risk. It negatively impacts other people who have zero say. I don’t have asthma, but if I did I’d probably just die living here.
And nobody else thinks it’s a problem because they LIKE having fires now and then. It’s the same mentality of not putting limits on rich people because they wouldn’t want limits on themselves if they get rich.
getting given advice by another person who you’ve already told that such advice does not work. Prime example: me telling my mother my sensory issues and triggers, then she tells me to just not think about it, as if that would ever change the fact I can’t filter environmental noise from my mind at all…
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.
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.
This ranks so far down the list of problems with society that it’s not even worth mentioning. But every day of the week should start with a different letter so they are easier to abbreviate! Having two “T-days” is just fucking nuts to me. I’m ok with the weekend days both starting with the same letter because that can just be a signifier that it’s the weekend. But ideally? Every day gets it’s own letter and you can just say “something happens T-day” instead of “something happens Tues”.
loud noises in general, stuff like applauses annoy me to no end, crowds being overly cheerful for no reason, noisy vehicles
I chose to be autistic before it was cool.
The fact that the only way for 2 people to move around in public side by side and hold a conversation is usually when you’re sitting in a car.
Sidewalks and bike paths are too narrow for it or full of parked cars in cities, and non-existant in rural areas.I live in a rural area that’s a popular tourist destination for people from big cities.
In the summer it drives me absolutely bonkers when the tourists come with their bikes/rent bikes…and ride in groups up to 5-wide, around blind corners etc. We don’t have shoulders, and if we’re do they’re rarely maintained.
Holy shit this one is so real. Meanwhile they’re adding another 2 lanes to Main Street for the cars…
Dogs that bark at people that are just walking on the sidewalk. It pisses me off to no end.
Cannot people walk freely on public sidewalks without being bothered by a fucking dog barking as if I am committing a robbery? Owners should train their dogs not to bark like that.
It pisses me off. Seriously. Just thinking about that, my blood pressure is already rising. Imagine if every house had one of those dogs. It would be fucking hell to go anywhere by foot.
…it is singular, they are plural; he or she are interchangeable artifacts of language and it’s overtly sexist to take exception to either…
…individuals have agency; collectives are mindless emergent systems…
It’s a real shame that bigots have historically used “it” to de-humanize people.
Personally I use male pronouns because it’s easy and obvious and I don’t really care enough. I don’t love constantly identifying with a gender. But I also don’t want to be identified as plural. And yeah, I know that singular ‘they’ has been around for hundreds of years, but you can also find grammar authorities speaking out against it for hundreds of years. For exchanging information efficiently, I think single vs plural is a much more important distinction in our modern world than which gender someone identifies as.
I wish I could identify as “it” without freaking people out. I also wish people respected objects, without having to give them gendered pronouns or faces or human names to do so.
I respect all my they/them homies, including one of my partners, but it seems to me like a linguistic bandaid on a bad system.
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
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 🤣
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.
Consumerism and throwing away easily repairable things. Perceiving some brands as superior for whatever fucking reason even if you explain why that’s not the case. Cheap stuff that breaks apart by merely looking at it from the wrong angle. “Cost optimization”.
Not really autism-specific things but holy hell does it get me going.
Yeah and literally everything else in this thread.
Edit: The quality of search results. Jeeesus Christ has it become ridiculously hard to find anything human-written beneath all these AI trash sites. Fuck those ad-riddled, information-deprived, time-wasting pieces of shit.
Oh yes, this one pisses me off also: consumerism. I am anti consumption and when I see the amount of consumption, unneeded, useless, consumption in the world i get… Mad? Sad? Disappointed? We are in a climate emergency, the main reason being capitalism, which might just be a synonym for “consumption”. The marketing that is done for increasing levels of consumption is also pathetic, infuriating and criminal.
My autistic partner does the second one. No MATTER how many arguments bring why apple just is objectively a bad choice from the price tag to their products. They still only want apple phones. Instead of breaking out they are going “well i cant get any other phone than apple because of my apple music and apple in-ears.”
I guess it depends how long you keep yer stuff. Apple has been a great choice for me even though I’ve gone with their more expensive phones—I kept my first iPhone for 4.5 years, my second one for almost six years, and I’m on my third to which I didn’t NEED to upgrade but I wanted better low-light kitty pictures and 120hz. Overall, the cost for the longevity evens out to be pretty good. Different story if someone upgrades their phone every year or two.
The price is still too high even if you factor in using it for a long time. Other options like FairPhone or Samsung or even Nokia are way more priceworthy
Yeah, I’ve noticed that even Ecosia search is going down the shitter
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.
