Misophonia - what are your triggers?

People squeezing plastic water bottles, vocal fry and nearly everything mentioned above.

My son actually has a visceral reaction to this to the point where we just can’t eat out any more, and mostly use plastic cutlery at home. I wish someone could invent silent cutlery and crockery!

Grounds for divorce

People scraping at yoghurt pots, scrape scrape scrape, there’s nothing bloody left.

Tea slurping, ugh I can’t be around my dad drinking tea, he kind of sucks it through his teeth, awful.

And yes any general unnecessary munching of food, talking with mouth full, it sets me on edge.

People eating apples or cereal.
Hard typing on a keyboard.
Lip smacking.

(I have found my people)

The cinema is a complete no go for us now. People whispering and talking, chewing, sucking and endless rustling! Argh! Quite funny tho, I was in S&P last week and obv it was frustrating enough but then 3 hours in, a patient came in and it appeared to be a family day out. 4 people - grandma, grandad and husband and wife. They came in and all talked loudly. Then they pulled out snacks!!!! Snacks!!!! They sat eating them loudly, rustling and talking. DP and I kept looking at each other. Then they stopped - praise the lord. 20 mins later, round two! DP said he had to go for a walk. My friend said it was heartless of him and he should have waited but I also would have left if I could.

Noisy eaters who don’t close their mouths. I have no desire to see and hear your food going round in your mouth like a washing machine. Sniffers, noisy cutlery chankers (OH eats cornflakes and the noise, chank chank chankerty chank. The noise has me running for the hills. People who can’t keep their fingers out of their food. People who can’t use a knife and stab their food with a fork then eat the food like it was a Lolly. People who constantly pick at themselves, looking for scabs, spots etc. OMG! My list is endless.

completely agree. Mine is doing this constantly at the minute. Part of me really feels for him. The other wants to smother him.

Sneezing & nail clippers are the two worst ones for me. God forbid anyone ever moves next door with a basketball as that noise also sets me off.

My husband eating. He makes a disgusting noise and sometimes snorts....

I'm really hypersensitive to this though, so it may be usual eating noises, but it gives me the rage / feel sick (mostly rage though)

Banana (smell that gets stronger with the peel). Been known to take someone’s banana skin away & bin it
Apples (crunch)
Pears - absolute worst - (crunch & sucking sounds)
Luckily most people I work with know this & wont eat them at their desks 🤣🤣🤣

My sister also makes a horribly loud gulping noise in her throat when she swallows a drink! 😫

@OnceUponATimed YES! Posted same time as you. Jinx!

Slurping drinks, eating crisps. Non food - clipping fingernails....aaargh! And don't even start me on sniffing & throat clearing...😡🤢

There's a certain mouthy sound when some people on podcasts or radio speak. I can't bear it. Bit like chewing but just opening their mouths to speak they make a clacky sound and it's picked up by the mic. I have to turn the radio off.

The whistling noise on the radio when some people speak (often caused by dentures)

A sort of smacking noise some people on the radio make when speaking.

Any deliberate repeated noise, my otherwise lovely nephew taps constantly. Drives me CRAZY.

Obviously mouth open eaters, they need to be shot. Sadly includes my adult child, who himself would shoot me for my finger licking (I would also shoot myself ironically).

Cutlery scraping on plates on spoons bashing against the side of bowls sends me to a very bad place

ASMR is like a form of torture. I can't bare it.

DH has a problem with his nose, it makes his breathing and chewing food really loud. I have to practice deep breathing and remind myself constantly that it's medical and he can't help it.

People filing their nails

People typing on a laptop/keyboard
Noisy eating, slurping, lips smacking
Crisp bag rustling
Some water sounds - some fountains, water sloshing in an iron
Tapping
Whispering
Also some movement - can’t remember the name - it is the movement version of misophonia - so people applying make us, rubbing creams etc on their face, particularly that exaggerated way instagrammers do it. Also watching hands type - keyboard and texting. There is a quiz show on Channel 5 hosted by Jeremy Vine, with Carol Vorderman and Sally Lindsay. There is a round where they are at a table, the camera is overhead and focused on their hands, they move tiles to make words. For some reason the sight of their moving hands and the noise of them moving the tiles makes me feel sick. I am well weird.

People biting into apples and opening cans of drinks! It sends me into a rage. Also watching/hearing people eat on social media. Who enjoys that???

Cracking knuckles. Cannot stand it.

Put on music at mealtimes, it's the only thing that works for me

Cutlery scraping. I still have a couple of memories of particularly awful sounds that make me cringe years later and that I can’t bring myself to type. I used to hide it so thoroughly that it just felt normal to me to several times a week go to the bathroom mid meal and punch my own legs to be able to come back and cope with it. Now I have told people it’s so much better, occasional exposure is much more tolerable than trying to power through every day.

Haha yes my dh eats an apple like a crack of thunder. I feel like he could enter a competition for loudest apple eater in decibels, it defies physics.

He's a very soft spoken man with a soft tread like a cat (a deliberate feature in my choice of husband because I hate stomping men). So that makes it more alarming when he sneezes.

AATCHOO-oo-oo (echoes throughout the neighbourhood, crows caw in alarm and flutter away).

Apple eating and loud sneezing should accrue fines.