Living with misophonia. Anyone who has misophonia want to chat? My son is a gobbler and I want to do terrible things!!!

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My son is in the room with me and he's eating.

Gobble gobble chomp chomp grunt ahhhh grunt chomp gobble gobble sigh.

How loaded is your fucking fork if you're grunting like you're deadlifting a horse?

I feel a murderous rage and at the same time i want to cry.

I hate eating with people and avoid it as much as possible because not only do I fantasise about plucking people's eyes out with my fork and beating them to death with it but I'm so paranoid about my own eating noises that I can't force food down and need to take tiny bites and drink water to force each bite down.

My sister is blind and came to stay. We had to eat together so i sat at the other side of the room and I had to have her play an audio book while I had a towel that I shoved in front of my mouth while I chewed in an attempt to muffle any noise I might make.

I know it's a condition people joke about and don't take seriously but it's utterly miserable to have to cope with this.

I want to yell at my son which is unreasonable and unfair so I won't but the pent up rage feels like a physical pain in my chest.

I'd love to talk with fellow sufferers about this godawful thing.

Misery loves company, I suppose.

Edit - my late dad had it too. I remember him yelling at me that my dinner was already dead so I didn't need to growl at it. That is when I started to become paranoid about making any noise when eating.

Another sufferer here op! It's horrible. I realised I've spent my entire married life trying to eat slightly slower than DH so I don't have to sit listening to him chew at the end of a meal. DD is only 4 but she's started doing weird mouth noises, swishing spit around her mouth and blowing little bubbles. I know ignoring it would probably be most effective as she'll probably just grow out of it, but I can't cope with the constant mouth noises do I have to tell her to stop. I've promised myself I'll pay for a therapist when she's older to deal with any psychological issues I'm causing!

🤣🤣🤣 I don't care what randoms think about my personality. Everyone I care about likes me and I them. They accept my peculiarities and I accept theirs.

how people I don't care about or interact with see me doesn't matter. They can think what they like about me.

I definitely have it too, some noises irrationally anger me. My mum makes this insufferable sound with her mouth when she's just sitting watching TV. I can't bear it. My dad has the loudest sneeze ever known to man, I just sit and think, do you really need to be that loud? Can't you muffle the sound at all?
There are definitely other noises that infuriate me

I remember when DS still lived here, he ate like a wolf. He has chronically blocked sinuses so was trying to mouth breathe while eating, and it made me rage inside.
There was nothing he could do about it, and somehow that made it both better and worse.
When my DParents visit, DM's phone constantly pings alerts at full volume, I now make her turn the volume right down as soon as she arrives, and have turned off her haptics totally.

Recognise all of this.
I work from home and am so glad of it!

Everyone ate at their desk at my old place which was challenging enough.
But with one colleague actually felt like he was trolling me.

Every lunch an assortment of crunchy salad with cucumber and celery, second course ryvita crackers followed by a whole carrot and an apple.

I actually cried a couple of times, so glad he is out of my life now!

The loop earbuds honestly saved me.

Like a pp I just have to leave the room when my family eats. It makes me sad but at least they can have a normal meal. So much sympathy to fellow sufferers.

So happy to have found this thread and can sympathise and relate
What my family dont get is the fact that wonderpup chomping and slurping has no effect on me at all. Its just them and other humans

I have it, I first noticed it as a child when I couldn't bear the sound of people eating or just making noise with their mouths, like smacking their lips. I got so I can't stand seeing people move their tongue over their teeth with their mouth closed.
Work was a nightmare- it's shocking how many people eat noisily! Maybe they don't to other people but to me it's torture.
I find Alpine Sleepsoft earplugs save my sanity. You can still hear but they filter out certain noises. I have several pairs!
For a long time I feel angry if someone keeps fidgeting too, I'm sure it's all part of the same thing.

So you can talk about your kid like a pig but not eat like one? Ok.

You think pig is bad?
My other kid can ge a twat sometimes.
Do you need smelling salts?

Do you think I speak out loud as I type? I think you're very funny.

Sweet that you're seemingly offended on my son's behalf for things I say anonymously on line that he doesn't know about.

Anyway. Moving on. To the not ...whatever the fuck that is .. posters, it's a bloody awful thing to have to cope with and it's good we can have our rants here and get it out of our systems.

I'm going to give those earplugs a try but I am a bit worried they will as a pp says, amplify the sound of my own (pig) noises. I'll let you know.

I don't mind at all about the dogs eating but I cannot bear the noise of them licking their paws/other body parts/each others ears - but it's more socially acceptable to shout at them to stop or push them out of the room 😂

Oh i hate it! I have to listen to a podcast or watch TV when my partner is eating. Not so bad when there's more of us as chatting drowns it out a bit. I feel so grumpy and horrible but I don't know how someone can eat ice cream like a pig in a trough!

I carry my headphones everywhere so the minute someone starts crunching crisps, chewing gum or sniffing I can put them on.

Which loop earplugs are people using please?!

re the kids and animal thing - when my children were little I loved the sounds they made while eating. cute little snuffly noises as babies then sweet little chomping noises as toddlers.

Then one day that changed and their noises made me feel the same way as everyone else's.

My cat's a noisy fucker but thankfully eats in the kitchen where I don't have to listen to her. :D

It's nice to be able to be honest about it because in RL you've got to pretend it doesn't bother you because you can't make people feel self conscious about making perfectly normal noises. It's not fair on them.

but JESUS I want to kill them. It's bonkers, isn't it? I wonder if there's a reason for it. Apart from our, you know "off-putting personalities" 😂

@Timetofindme I have Loop Engage. They are very good. You can still hear people talking, TV etc, but they take the edge off everything annoying.

I have Misophonia and can't watch tv anymore because the modern craze for whispering in adverts is unbearable. I can't stand anyone whispering or speaking softly and into a microphone it is a hundred times worse. It's a horrible, panicky feeling like I want to run away.
I also have misokinesia. I was in an airport departure lounge recently and all I could focus on was everyone's thumbs moving up and down as they scrolled on their phones, or bobbing up and down as they typed texts. There was also a man tracing his index finger lightly on his wife's back and I could feel the panic rise. It's an awful way to be, I genuinely do sympathise with all fellow sufferers!

I have it too. All mouth noises trigger it.
Fortunately I don’t live with someone with bad manners.

Oh my god whispery adverts infuriate me! In my case I think it's just because they're fucking stupid though 😀

Apples being eaten make me feel murderous, too.

People chomping like Cart Horses.

Sniffing and coughing and snoring - also drink slurpers.

Sticky mouth 👄 sounds on radio or you tube-

Much less of a problem now, with editing software (?)

The WHUMP and boings of trampoline springs ( sounds like heavy people having vigorous sex on a noisy bed)

Screaming children and babies yapping dogs

So many annoying sounds .

Flares are amazing. They cut out background noise.

You can't eat silently though.

No. You can't.

I've just been on holiday with my parents for a week and they both eat a bowl of yoghurt, nuts and chopped apple for breakfast every day. OMFG they sound like a pair of horses chewing rocks (not to mention the fact that dad seemed to be trying to break through the bowl with his spoon); I was ready to murder them both by Tuesday. I had to resort to earphones playing music as my Loops weren't cutting it.