Misophonia

[FuckingNoise]

Anyone else suffer with this?? I'm the biggest arsehole on the planet and this really fucking makes me hate people even more. Apples and crisps are the worst. I was on a train earlier and some cunt decided to rustle their fucking wrappers and start chomping away like they'd never been fed before. What is it about trains and crisps? Not even "mild" ones like Skips they always have to be Doritos or Pringles. Honestly I felt like jumping off the fucking train just to make it stop. I can't even express how irritated and uncomfortable it makes me feel. It physically hurts me. I've shed actual tears over this before. I don't go to the cinema anymore. It makes me fucking rage. Go on give me your biscuits... at least I'll be considerate enough to eat the fuckers QUIETLY.

Yes I know I need to go and live on an island. I can't afford to. Thank fuck for air pods!!!!!!

It's not just eating. Draw slammers, door slammers, fucking WHISTLING, dripping taps. Basically any noise that I deem to be unnecessary. I had a shit neighbour once who stupidly bought a working dog and locked him in a cage all day while she was at work (I know, I know) and barked non stop. I avoided my own home as much as possible due to the stress it caused me. Sometimes I think it's not the actual noise that bothers me but just the complete lack of consideration for other people. It's so fucking hard to live with. If I had to board public transport without headphones I'd honestly crawl through broken glass to get to my destination and find it less painful.

Are you joking? This sort of thing is intolerable. Like sitting with a bunch of little kids doing high pitched screams when you're hungover is the closest I can get to it. Putting your kid through that is cruel.

I feel your pain. Loads of things affect me. Mainly eating/drinking/sniffing/whistling. Though recently people tapping heavily on laptops on the train is enough to make me want to cry.

It is a bloody miserable condition. Exposure/hypnotherapy didn’t help.

I feel like an arse for being the way I am but it has been this way since I was small and my tolerance of ‘unnecessary noise’ hasn’t got better with age.

Noise cancelling headphones have been my saviour.

I would have taken against the slurper too!

You are normal. Congrats. Don't take it for granted. If your daughter really suffers with this please don't force her into it. I get the whole eating together thing. But there are loads of other ways you can interact and bond as a family. Don't put her through this. For people like me... and her presumably... eating food is as private as taking a shit.

Basketball is the one getting on my nerves right now... beautiful day... doors open... thump, thump, thump, thump....thump, thump.... thump.... thump... THUMP...THUMP... door closed.

Does it kick off anyone elses Fight or flight feeling inside?
Like a sudden burst of frustration and anger and you have to leave or pinch a wall?

😳It has a name? I can't stand people making noises and I just chalked it down to me being an arrogant twat. Pen clicking is the worst for me. If someone's just sat there clicking a pen I lose my mind

I'm the same. So sensitive to any noise outside the norm. I have to take a white noise machine when we go on holiday because noisy hotel rooms mean zero sleep. Its like I wait for the noise to start.

Apples as well. Someone at work eats them and I just want to explode. And Doritos I have to leave the room when the husband and kid eats them. Its totally irrational.

This has reminded me to order the house cancelled headphones I wanted because soon the garden will be unbearable and I'm not the kind of person to disturb others with my music in the garden but the people in the corner make me homicidal. You have my sympathies op. It's so debilitating for us

FuckingNoise I'm with you 100 percent. And the anger and violence it stirs within me scares me sometimes to be honest. And don't get me started on people who feel the need to bang and clatter and scrape their cutlery against plates and bowls when they eat...

I have this too. I'm autistic. I wear Flare Calmer pro earplugs. They are life changing.

Ahh yes feel your pain on that one, next door who already own two children with the highest pitched Screams anyway but have now indulged them with a full pro sized basketball hoop which they kindly wheel out to the front on every sunny day so every kid in the neighbourhood brings there basketball to play. So whilst one child shoots 5 others just wait around constantly dribbling their ball.

I could literally put someone's head through a wall over this... and I'm normally a very decent charitable kind and non judgemental woman. The fucking rage is absolutely insane.

I have been in situations where I have been wound up by noise. But the thing that strikes me about this thread is the 'unnecessary' noise judgement. And the more I focus on it, the worse I feel. But it is not my place to say what is necessary or not, and until I challenged that I could not move on.

Yes I am so with you. People snacking on nuts, crisps, apples, popcorn. Sniffing, any open mouth eating, it makes me homicidal and suicidal at the same time. In public like in the train i can recommend always having some of those squishy orange roll up and in ear plugs. They have saved my sanity. I even use them in the office sometimes when others are on zoom calls in an open plan space. Aren't cinemas awful? Noise packets and noisy eaters, grim.

Oh my word, I totally get this!! I've left the cinema due to rage.
Don't even start me on peoples breathing noises, whistling noses, dry mouth so they make that horrible noise when talking, rustling packages, faffing about taking popcorn out a bowl, snoring, crunching, or that wet chewy noise. Honestly I could go on.....
I legit think that if my husband and I ever divorce it'll be due to my intolerance of the unnecessary noises he makes (and him thinking I'm beyond unreasonable!)
I was watching that SAS: who dares wins and they were doing all sorts of torture noises like babies crying etc..could handle that no bother. But, I'd be outta there in 2 seconds flat at a loud chewing noise.
I wish I wasn't like this!

Me too. Food noises don't bother me, what gives me the absolute insane rage is completely unreasonable and I know it is... Hiccups. My DC and DH are very hiccupy people and I can't bear it. I've been known to leave the room. I can't stand having them either, mostly because of the noise.

I also can't abide loud breathing, especially if I'm trying to read or sleep. DH doesn't snore too badly but if he's got a cold... I have to sleep somewhere else. We went to a hotel recently, and I had DH and both DC snoring, and I could hear DM snoring next door (connecting rooms). I nearly went and slept in the bath.

Also tapping, clicking and any sort of garden noise - lawnmowers and hedge trimmers, but especially fucking leaf blowers. I just want to open the window and scream shut up!

Yep. I really struggle with work sometimes if people are eating down the phone
It's like a white hot rage somewhere between total disgust and wanting to vomit/smash things

Yeah it’s horrendous. I can’t go in the staff room at work, I go to my car to eat in peace. I’ve tried to go in, but there was a staff member there eating grapes, sounded like he was chewing gravel! I would lose my job because of the rage it causes me.
I can’t stand the sound of dogs licking themselves either. Repetitive music makes me want to explode.
It’s the worst! I have been so close to dumping my boyfriend when he eats crisps.
I feel like I cook up like a spring waiting to go off! I don’t know what started it, I don’t remember it being a problem during my teens. It’s definitely started since I’ve had kids.

I don't mind kids playing in the garden, lawn mowers, jet washers, people talking. But the bass beat of music drives me insane. The top higher notes I'm ok with, but the thud of a bass beat I find very distressing.

I feel sick in my stomach whenever I open the back door as I don't know if I'm going out to peace and quiet, or to music as our neighbours are getting more and more inconsiderate. They spent a fortune doing up their garden and are now out with their music blasting all the time.
Today I ordered an outside sound system so the next time they start the music up I can drown it out with my own. 😪😪

I have two autistic kids, one has misophonia particularly with people eating crisps, the other gets lots of sensory feedback from eating crisps. The days are long....

Christmas music in shops gives me the ragingest rage ever and I get so furious I could easily burst into tears. What makes me even more furious is if I happen to inadvertently be somewhere where Christmas music is playing and I hear someone fucking humming along with it. I want to kill them.

Here's one for you OP. Years ago now, we were staying with friends and at dinner I was seated next to their 16 year old son. We were having meatballs in tomato sauce and this wretched child would stab a meatball and then slowly and noisily lick the sauce of each one, right next to me. It was insufferable, I had to speak.

*off each one...

Oh fuck that bullshit ⚰️