to shove her food in her face

[Talismania]

I know IABU. This is more a rant.

There's a woman who works upstairs for who some reason eats in our break area. I can't stand the way she eats. She always has finger food like sushi or pizza. She picks a piece up and stares at it before very slowly and deliberately moving it to her mouth, does this weird thing where she moves her lips away from her teeth and slowly tears off a tiny piece with her teeth, stares at the food again, slowly puts it down, then makes A lot of noise chewing (more like smacking her lips and tongue together than actual chewing) until she picks it up again for another bite.

It's the slow deliberateness of it. And the noise. I have misoph

The visual form would be like how some people get freaked out looking at things that have lots of holes in them.

Oh god breathing!!

The amount of rows I had with exh about his ridiculous breathing!! And him saying, seriously you're telling me off for breathing?
As much as I know how ridiculous I was I couldn't help it. Breathing should be a silent activity. Why do people breathe so loudly!!!!

I can't have any clocks in the house either.

Is miso something that gets clinically diagnosed or are people self diagnosing? (Being nosey, never heard of it before and feeling a bit guilty about loudly chewing when I was a child just to wind up my Dsis my eating really bothered her I honestly thought she was just being a PITA!)
I do think it sounds quite likely the lady in the OP has some sort of eating disorder from the description.

I've had it diagnosed by the doc but many people have it. If my sister had done that my parents would have made her sit elsewhere, they knew how awful it was for me.

"I do think it sounds quite likely the lady in the OP has some sort of eating disorder from the description."

Gosh, what an odd statement based on no real fact whatsoever.

Well she's always complaining my very existence has ruined her life in one way or another so its difficult to know what to take seriously, like the boy that cried wolf!
If it's akin to the visual form as described above you have my utmost sympathy boak

Seems there are lots of experts on this thread- diagnosing themselves and others.

Klaydon based on my own experiences and the description of her eating. Gosh sorry!

Yes it is exactly like the visual, sadly I'm the same with all the holes (awful), it Brings on the same uncomfortable, sick, red hot angry feeling.

Fucking Mumsnet. People are breathing and eating the wrong way? Just. I despair.

No. Other people have an auditory processing disorder that makes them respond to various sounds differently. Do keep up.

I feel sorry for my dear old Mum. She is in her 80s, has a clicking jaw when she eats, often bits of food will fly out of her mouth, and since having a throat operation gulps very loudly when she swallows, especially fluids.

Maybe she should be told to eat her lunch in the toilet in case she offends fellow diners............

I shouldn't worry. I'm sure your mum would be completely oblivious to a miso sufferer's secret thoughts. We generally keep them to ourselves.

So weird how the noisy eaters are the ones being felt sorry for! Misophonics generally don't act on their feelings or let them show at all. Don't you think it would be more widely talked-about if they did? This thread is the first time many posters here have heard of Misophonia. So don't go clutching your pearls over all the poor wickle noisy folk.

I wouldn't say or do anything. Even though I'd be close to a panic attack or vomiting. Miso is as much an illness as anything else. It destroys meal times for me occasionally. I can get through and calm myself over people not meaning to be noisy but bad mannered eaters I have to excuse myself and leave. There's no calming the feeling it brings on.

I think a big part of coming to terms with it is accepting that you are the person with the problem and removing yourself from the scenario as quickly as possible. It's so hard when the trigger is in the workplace, though: there's no escape. I spent six months sharing an office with a loud gum-popper and I was close to tears most days. Just horrible

So it is more to do with the perception of "manners" than the functionality of eating?

(Cue outraged post expressing pity for the persecuted gum-popper)

I agree mama (I'm ignoring the ass clown that's just posted), I do everything I can to remove myself from the situation as it's my issue. I've had so many panic attacks because of it. Luckily my doctor was fabulous and also a sufferer.

Eating is not a trigger for everyone, keeptothewhiteline but it's a very common one. Other triggers can include lawn mowers, car horns, dog barking... So no, I don't necessarily think it's a manners thing.

aermingers, there is really no need to be quite so offensive.

car alarms and wine pouring are two major ones for me, the noise of wine pouring makes me want to remove my ear drums manually.

I am not buying into this too much either.

"manners" is such a culturally dictated thing. In China it is considered good manners to hold a bowl close to your mouth and slurp. Some cultures consider belching a sign of a good meal.
If it truly is some kind of sensory processing disorder then why does mrsgrinch find the people who eat noisily without meaning to more upsetting than those she perceives to have simple " bad manners".
And what about babies starting solids- it doesn't get any messier or noisier than that, spitting up food, rubbing stuff on their faces . Does that also arouse such feelings of revulsion and anger?

Did you not read my post. I said people who don't mean to I can deal with, then it's my issue. Bad manners I leave the room; again making it my issue.

But being a stickler for manners is hardly a sensory processing issue.