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Developing an intolerance to voices?

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doodlyfiddly · 06/04/2023 08:49

I wonder if it's just me?
Over the past year or so, I sometimes hear someone's voice, either in real life (in a shop, for example) or on tv or radio, and I just can't bear to listen to it and have to get away or switch off.
It's not that they have an 'annoying' voice, rather something about their voice makes me feel physically ill, kind of a sick, panicky feeling.
I know it sounds weird (DH certainly thinks I am!).
It can be a male or female voice, high-pitched or low. I don't hang around to listen to why it's making me feel sick, I just get out of there. It hasn't happened with anyone I know, thank goodness!
I have found as I've got older that things like radio/tv adverts annoy me and I turn them down, but that's more the incessant yapping.
It doesn't happen very often luckily, maybe once a week, and more likely on the tv/radio as I guess I'm around those more than people in general.
I was just wondering if anyone else feels like this sometimes or has come across it?

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 06/04/2023 09:41

I have gone right off Aussie accents ever since a TV programme (Greek Odyssey) presented by a (to me) very loud, brash, boastful Greek-origin Aussie. Dh and I absolutely love Greece and the scenery was gorgeous but in the end I could only watch it with the sound off - or escape to the kitchen while dh was watching.

Since then I know it’s daft and 100% unreasonable, but I can’t bear any Aussie accents at all (except those belonging to old friends in Melbourne who ring us now and then.) There was also some TV ad about bringing a bottle (of wine) - which I found so profoundly irritating, it made me promise myself never to buy any of that wine!

It would seem that I’m now a fully paid up Victoria Meldrew, aka Grumpy Old Bag.

Eggseggseverywhere · 06/04/2023 09:51

Is it just voices op? Googling Misaphonia was enlightening for me op.

Eggseggseverywhere · 06/04/2023 09:52

Apologies Misophonia..

postwarbulge · 06/04/2023 10:00

I cannot bear to listen to rhotic accents, like American

Palmface · 06/04/2023 10:11

I was in a taxi with a very loud Russian driver who wouldn't stop talking at my dh, to the extent that it made me physically sick and I had to stop the car to vomit on the side of the south circular! I was pregnant at the time but well out of morning sickness stage.

I am sensitive to sound though, hate chewing and gulping sounds and get over stimulated with lots of noise around me so I think it's related?

doodlyfiddly · 06/04/2023 13:50

I have looked up Misophonia. It could be that kind of thing I suppose. It's nothing whatsoever to do with accents, it's more like a certain tone of voice (but can be all kinds of pitches).
It also happens with singers - George Ezra, Jess Glynne & Becky Hill get switched off immediately! 🤷‍♀️

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