AIBU to ask if anyone else has Misophonia?

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Just realised that I have this and it's driving me nuts!! Didn't even know it was a 'thing'

Really?! This is a thing! Until five minutes ago I just thought I was "sensitive to noise!"

The first time I really noticed it was when I was in labour with DD1 - I'd made a wonderful playlist to bring in with me and then realised that the sound of so much as a door opening when I was having a contraction made me murderous. I've always found the sound of people eating with their mouths open horrific and have one lovely colleague who causes me to leave the room when she's eating her lunch. I have a friend's DH who does the same. I was seated next to him at a dinner recently and nearly left the restaurant.

DH is a great one for the radio and the TV on at the same time, it drives me insane and he just thought I was being difficult! I have to tell him about this. I grew up on a steady diet of Radio 4 which I loved but our house is so noisy now when DH is in it, I find myself having to have complete silence when he's not!

BBC is reporting today on new research coming out of Newcastle University -this is where I live! Very excited that there may be help for sufferers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38842561

For me it's sniffing, throat clearing, and loud sneezing, but the one I really hate is people who do that sort of snort/hawking noise. If it's followed by a spit I'm retching. And yes, all loud noises associated with eating get to me too.

It's taken me a while to realise I probably have some degree of this. I'm profoundly deaf and had a cochlear implant two years ago. Been brilliant. However, I experience feelings of actual rage at:

• cutlery scraping on plates (OH worst offender, led to rows, saying I'm unreasonable!)
• Heels on pavements.
• Scraping e.g yogurt pots
• The beeps on the washing machine/fridge.
• Beeps/warnings in the car.
• Rustling sounds.

It's difficult to explain. There are other issues which I now understand may be related, e.g. my not being able to stand certain textures, places like the supermarket (the lights! the noise!), crowds (have to escape to decompress). I wonder how common this sort of stuff is with misophonia.

To prevent killing my family, I put music on during meals.

MN taught me I am not unhinged, but a misophonia sufferer .

For me it's ticking clocks, noises that electronic devices make (all mine are on silent except for phone calls, I can't stand all the constant binging and bonging that the average phone makes) and shit rolling around in the car.

Every time I drive either the work pool car or DPs car I have to collect up all the loose shit that rolls around in the cubby holes before I start.

Once I threw the kitchen clock out of the door into the undergrowth over the fence it enraged me so much.

Fantastic news, DD's face lit up st the thought of treatment

Not the usual response you'd expect from a 14 year old thinking about ECT but it might actually give her a life

I think my 15 year old has this, he has always been very quick to anger when sitting down for a meal. He would go from 0 to 60 in a few seconds and we'd sit there wondering what happened. He would also get very agitated if he knew we were having a sit down meal rather than tv dinner. Over the last 2 years he started to articulate that it's the noise of people eating and it makes him crazy. For a while we tried to get him to work through it emotionally until I read about Misophonia, since then we've let him have earphones and play music softly whilst at the table. He's now a normal teenager when we eat.

Yes. I have this. Interestingly my son is now being assessed for HF ASD and I've realised I probably have it too.
One of the worst things is my husband chewing gum. He's trying to give up smoking and chomps on gum all the time. Quite often I'll ask him something while I'm on the laptop and he'll come over to help AND STAND BEHIND ME CHEWING!! Like a bloody cow chewing the cud. I can hardly bear it. Sudden noises such as loud sneezes make me flinch violently - its almost a physical pain.
The guy who sits opposite me at work drums his feet on the floor when he is concentrating and it makes me feel like bursting into tears.
I don't mind "my own noise". I will happily play loud music etc but feel very anxious when it's someone else's noise I can't control.

I work at home on Fridays. No one else is here and I feel so happy and content.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/people-find-sound-chewing-gum-orpen-clicking-unbearable-have/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_iosshare_AnTpzk8yvHXn

Yes, it's a thing. My husband has it. His pet hate is swallowing and gulping noises and unfortunately I have sinus issues!! It's been a really hard thing in our marriage but we've been together 20 years so there is clearly much more keeping us together. We only discovered this was a condition last year and it's really helped us both - it makes it less personal.

Well done for accepting and adapting to this - what a great mum you are!

Yes, I think have it to some degree. The sounds that I have a problem with are:
Eating, chomping and chewing.

Drinking and swallowing.
Breathing.
Clicking (like clicking a mouse or clicking a biro on and off.
Dishes and plates being got out and put away.
Clocks ticking.

I also can't abide foot waggling or pen tapping or other kinds of repetitive fiddling with something.

I read the article about this on the BBC news website this evening. Fascinating. I have always assumed that DH is the problem, because he eats noisily, breathes loudly, waggles his foot etc. But perhaps I am the one with the problem. I have never thought of it that way before!

user1471537877 [Tue 03-Jan-17 09:49:48]

I'm sorry you're dealing with that. I've been in situations where people have highly conflicting disability/ND-related needs, and anyone involved seeing only their needs as valid makes it almost impossible to deal with.

I hope that this increased recognition of misophonia gets more people to a point where they can at least start to find solutions, whether in treatment or lifestyle.

I both have it and trigger other people's (though I doubt there's anyone who never triggers other people's, to be fair!) and everyone admitting that it's something that exists and needs taking seriously is an essential first step to working things out. I was so pleased to see that story in the press today.