Misophonia

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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!!!!!!

Oh, thank you for that! I laughed out loud 😁

The neighbour to my right has been blasting loud bassy music from their house since 15:00. There’s not a single room in my house from which I can escape it. I’m on the verge of tears. And I can’t just sit with noise cancelling headphones on as I have a 1 & 7 year old to look after. It’s torturous. Especially since I’m one of those people who consider the thoughts and feelings of others.

One of their friends has parked over my drive too. My boundaries have been violated. Perhaps I should just give them my house too to occupy since I’m obviously not worth giving any respect or consideration to.

I can't bear the sound of people eating. I know it's my problem I thought misophobia was only about food noises but it explains a lot to me now reading this.

I cannot bear slamming of any doors. My DH slams the microwave door and it makes me want to kill him there and then. I can't fucking bear it. He's so heavy handed and bangs everything and it drives me wild and he just doesn't get it.

I'm a nice person otherwise. But eating sounds and door slamming just send me to the rage in 1 second.

Reading this thread is so therapeutic, I feel like I've found my tribe!

I travel with a lot of metal tools and everything has to placed just so to stop them rattling. If DP is with me, he often doesn't place his tools properly and they rattle, so we have to stop and I rearrange them. He's getting better, these days if he notices a rattle he realises and just pulls over.

Or soup.

With one particular member of the family. When the soup is ‘too hot’.

Just wait until it cools, then!

urgh face noises. Eating, coughing, sneezing, snorting, sniffing, breathing- all of it just no. It's like some people (my DH!) don't hear the defeating noise they make chewing. The sound of my dh coughing or chewing genuinely causes me physical pain.

See also, the pffssttt noise buses make, it's soooo loud!

You're being unreasonable; eating apples makes a noise - any way you slice them. Chewing noises are just that and you are making sounds that other people may not like either. Dissolvable crisps are still noisy and I've yet to hear anybody ever eat them silently. Lip-smacking seems to be just the same.

Misophonia is real but as PP has said, noise-cancelling headphones are a lifesaver. Just stop being so pious and self-righteous because you're not the only one and believe me, you're not silent yourself.

I have it but I don't mind crunching noises so much - it's the chewing with open mouth type noises I hate the most. I also find it worse when I'm with people I'm close too. It drives me insane sometimes.

My dd1 also has it, she is more like you with the crisps noises. It's also made me hyperaware to these sorts of sounds, I feel myself tensing up to the first hint of a rustling sound when on a bus or train, even though the actual noises don't bother me as much. She also cannot stand sniffing noises, or dry mouth noises some people make when talking. Or anyone talking on the radio.

I feel the same about swearing!!!

I have this.. I can't stand hearing people breathing. It's difficult people do it quite a lot.

Difficult because people do it quite a lot..

Yes, drives me mad, to the point I banned my kids from having crisps for a while!

Mouth or nose noises make me want to kill people. Also certain words repeated. Since my 10yo discovered this he takes joy in saying a particular thing twice. One day soon I will chuck him out of the still moving car for doing this. (Joking before anyone calls SS but it's what I'm thinking I'd like to do!!) I had to lecture him and DH about the fact this is an actual real live condition and that doing these things is literally like torture for me.

I don't have this but I live with someone who does; the weird thing is they have no issues with making a lot of these noises themselves, how does that work?

I feel your pain. I sometimes think I’d be better off deaf. Not even a joke. It’s ruled my life since I was a child. Just as well disability has left me almost housebound. Silver linings and all that. 😆

Its all small noise for me. All eating/mouth noises, rustling, dripping, clicking, tapping, sniffing, breathing. EVERYTHING. Big noises I like because they drown out all the small noises.

I sleep with a fan on, on my actual bed so it’s as close to my ears as possible so it drowns out my DH breathing. I don’t even share a bed with him - he's across the room!

When I rule the world noisy eating will be outlawed and public whistlers executed.

Are they chewing with their mouths open though? If so, then it's very definitely their problem!

I know and I'm well aware that makes me look like an arse, but I can't hear the noise that I make in the same way and I do make a conscious effort to minimise the sounds I do make.

That sounds a little more like Autism

Misophonia is a physical reaction to a trigger sound. I have had it since I was a child, as has my brother.

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Sensory feedback from crisps?! What utter nonsense! You mean they really like crisps?!?!

I have an Autistic child and rubbish like this being used to describe perfectly usual, non-ASD related child behaviour is what makes life all that much harder for other kids with Autism such as my DD.

What did you say?!

My husband makes noises that make me want to shove him off a cliff. I don’t know how we’re still married?

the worse is my poor daughter though. She’s allergic to the dust particles in the air so she sniffs. Every 3 seconds. 24/7. It’s really effected our relationship because I have to spend a certain amount of time away from her just to calm the rage.

I feel for you honey. I have neighbours like this too. The lack of respect some people have is shocking

My tribe!

The noises genuinely distress me are:-

• crunching, chewing, slurping and sploshing, gulping down drinks unnecessarily
• Kissing (slurp slurp slurp on TV)
• Brats screeching and shrieking, particularly if it’s old enough to understand not to (I don’t like babies but I can’t be angry at them, obviously)
• Motorbikes and boy racers tearing up and down
• Peoples’ music
• Trees being cut down

Unfortunately in a country as crowded as the UK, I feel I’m a bit of a misanthrope as not a single noise my dog makes upsets me, unless it’s prolonged barking but that’s only really to warn me someone’s at the door!

Oh, not yet finished here!

Also:-

• Some loud phones (at one receptionist job I turned the ringer off for a bit of peace and quiet 🤫- oops!)
• That incessant beeping of those stupid video games peoples’ children play in public.

Wish I didn’t hate these sounds, but I am on the ASD spectrum and can’t really help it. I want to run for the hills with some noises- it’s a horrible surge of adrenaline with a feeling or intrusion and attack that I just have to escape. My sympathies for everyone suffering; it’s shit 💐