Is it normal to be seriously irritated by unnecessary repetition?
I don't mean if a song is somewhat repetitious or a basketball bouncing. I mean if someone is constantly making the same noise with their mouth for no reason, pacing, or tapping a pen... basically anything that is constantly the same tempo, is unnecessary, and a repeated action (usually a noise) over and over. My boyfriend's roommate paces when he's on the phone from one end of the living room to the other over and over and within seconds I'm ready to snap. When my boyfriend plays this one game he has to tap a button over and over at the same speed and I've had to leave the room to avoid asking him to pause the game for a bit. I believe this somewhat stems from being an only child in a single parent house, so the only noise I ever heard was my own, and from whenever I went to my dad's house he always had problems with unnecessary noise (like my half-siblings shouting at their games).