misphonia

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I have been educated about this through MN and realise it's a real thing and causes much distressment.

However, I believe my neighbour may be being an utter cunt.

I have lived here for 24 years and am pretty quiet. I live in a terrace with two neighbours at the front but because of the layout I have five neighbours at the back. He is one of them.

He yells at us for making noise. It is like the grave round here mostly, interspersed by noise of aircraft stacking to Gatwick and Heathrow about every 30 seconds. Sometimes people make dinner party noise - tinkly plates, laughter, MOR music - but that mostly in the summer. I like those sounds btw.

He's yelled at me a few times, mostly because I had the back door open and he could hear music. Once because my cat was in my garden and was yowling. 'If you don't shut that cat up, I'll fucking kill him' was what he said.

I apologised but the big mistake was saying: 'Do you think you have misphonia?'

He said no but had since come back and says he has. I think he's googled it.

I think he may have sensory problems but I think he is a bully too. I am not going to embark on any kind of feud but neither am I feeling that he deserves any more of my compassion than I would extend to other human beings.

People are pretty quiet here - currently there is no sound except for aircraft noise and the breeze, but I don't think the sounds of chat, eating, laughter and quiet music are big problems for most people. I quite like them - to me it is the sound of summer. I'm talking about my neighbours there. We don't tend to have dinner parties but like to eat in the garden, sometimes until about midnight in the summer and on those occasions we will make some noise. But the time doesn't seem to matter. He has shouted at people who were having a small party without music at 5pm on a Sunday.

I'm not suggesting for a moment that he's dangerous, but leaning out of the window and yelling at people is intimidating and makes me feel on edge. Anyway, there are worse neighbours and I was feeling a bit annoyed yesterday so thanks to everyone who replied.

NavyandWhite you're right. Siamese cats do not mewl. He sounds a bit like . Mostly he does it in the house. If he yowls for more than a few times in the garden I get him in because it's very loud but generally he stops after a few experimental yowls. But he is entitled to be in my garden. I think my neighbour was waiting for him to do it when he shouted just like he shouted at the little girl for giggling. Another neighbour found it funny when she finally saw him saying: 'So you're the little chap who makes such a big noise?' I think it was a genuine joke - he doesn't do it every day and we're not ASBO material. The cat also stays in my garden and never strays - high walls and a litter tray indoors and I'm always there to watch him - so he's pretty much the perfect urban pet. A stick insect would be quieter though