The sound of chewing makes me angry!!

[MineNeverYours]

Not really AIBU topic but I have to bring this up as I'm sure I'm not the only one!!
Is there anyone else who cannot STAND the sound of other people chewing???

@HarrietKettleWasHere I'll remember that next time I'm in a busy stressful place
@ThymeLord whispering I found creepy lol

I love the sound of rain and thunderstorms. One of my favourite sounds is the sound of the indicators in a car on a journey while it's raining.

@LiveLifeWithPassion 100% agree. I just got a new car and my indicators are quite quiet though 😔

Have you ever had to sit next to someone on a Ryanair flight eating an apple then a mango and then pineapple chunks and then suck the juice from the fingers?

I nearly committed murder.

The other day I was on a train and this super confident girl, sitting right next to me, delved into her bag repeatedly to get large very crunchy crisp like things one after the other - crunching away for ages and then licking her fingers - . It was a London commuter overground train.

Eating on a train that isn't an intercity = cardinal sin and against all rules.

Oh my god yes!!!! It's bad enough on a daily basis but god help anyone chewing near me when I have pms. One time there was a bogof on pringles in the Sainsbury's opposite my work and I wanted to kill every single one of my collages until the offer finished

It's misanphonia. And its totally your problem, please don't make it other people's.

Misophonia. Totally involuntary and down to scrambled connections in the brain.

It's blighted my life since childhood. Bloody awful. How I wish it was as simple as just getting over it and not making it other people's problem

@thefalloutwillbeawful the amount of times I've had to bite my tongue because I just want to snap and someone who's innocently eating lol

**coleagues

*Colleagues ffs that's the other thing that annoys me my illiterate autocorrect

Just ignore that comment stickle, I am

I just ignored that comment too.

Loud crisp munching and drink slurping just makes me irritated and irrationally angry.

Thyme and Mine

I can't tell you the relief when I heard that it was an actual thing like tinnitus or similar. Spent years as a teenager thinking I was crazy. The intensity of the reaction is so immediate and overwhelming, isn't it? Nothing like an aversion or the feeling of irritation. I totally understand what you mean!!

We always have music or the radio on at mealtimes

I hate it in the cinema with all that ice crunching about at the bottom of someone's drink when it's finished and they keep trying to get liquid up through the straw anyway and you can hear the slurp abd the sound of the straw scraping on plastic.

I don't go to the cinema much

I certainly thought there was something very wrong with me when I was a kid/teen! It was quite a relief to hear that it was an actual thing!

I moan about it to my mum all the time and she always told me to stop being weird lol

Oh god, this is me - but what can you actually do to get over it? I hate the fact eating / sniffing / animal grooming noises get to me so much.

Well I thought something was very wrong with me when I was a child because I made a noise when I chewed. Years of being shamed and sent out of the room for being "disgusting". Sorry if I offended anyone (and I never said it was your fault or you should get over it stiklebrix) but its no fun being on the receiving end either.

Blimmin lip smacking urrrrrgh. Anything clicky, people picking dry skin chewing gum with open mouth- no you don't look cool you look like an idiot....I could go on.

Chewing gum is another for me too. 😫

I'm actually sat here next to my husband who is eating his tea after going to the gym, and I'm on the edge. I'm considering jamming my crocheting hooks into my ears so I can't hear the MUNCH MUNCH SLURP MUNCH.

Either that or I'm going to kill him.

And to make matters worse his legs seem to be directly connected to his jaw so whenever he chews, his leg jiggles. Stops chewing, leg stops jiggling. I need to go upstairs and punch a pillow or something.

Harriet I'm with you on the drinks in cinemas.

Who on earth came up with the idea that the chomping of popcorn and sweets in a cinema was a good thing

It's also called '4S' (selective sound sensitivity syndrome) I used to be part of an online support group for sufferers. I joined after one particularly agonising afternoon spent listening to my colleague eating crackers in the office.

I can't stand crunchy apple eaters and my heart races if someone comes near me at cinema with nachos or crisps 😱

It's Misophonia, there is also Misokinesia which is the form where movement also causes you to react

You can use white, pink and even brown noise to help

It's a spectrum disorder approximately 2/3rds of sufferers are on the autistic spectrum

There is only one specialist in the U.K. And she only sees adults which doesn't help when onset is at puberty typically 8-12 years

Both my dc are affected, one mildly and one so severely she has to attend school from home as she cannot cope in a standard school

Recent research published here in the U.K. has shown a cause at last and they are hopeful that treatment will follow in the next 5 years for severe sufferers