That the sound of DH eating crisps makes me want to hit him on the head with a hammer?

[sweetkitty]

I’m sure I have misophonia or something but my house is too noisy for me in general. DH is eating some kind of party snacks and the noise is driving me insane. It sounds like nails down a blackboard.

Confession, I upend crisp packets into my gob, always have done!

Once a slattern, always a slattern.

Yy, humour in a dark situation. It’s funny. And people’s descriptions are funny. And there’s a certain relief in finding out you’re not alone that adds to the comedy of it.

I literally want to smash my DH in the head when he is eating. I have to tell him to stop until the TV is on. It's particularly bad if someone is eating and stood just behind you looking over your shoulder at something. Aargh! I can't bear it! I want to kill them but usually just shoot daggers until they move or stop eating!

I had a boyfriend when I was in my early 20s who ate noisily and wetly. He was very jealous so used to stand very close to me, almost touching, when we were out anywhere. The combination was a nightmare. I wasn’t sorry when we split up.

@Hopoindown31 no blissful ignorance in our house. My DH is aware of everything I've said here. I would never post something like this behind his back. He knows he eats like a pig. Just doesn't care.

My earliest memory is getting sent to bed for being rude to my uncle for "making a tatty noise". 😂

It's honestly the bane of my life, my kids know not to sit next me when they eat and to put the tv or music on.
DH is usually ok - he never eats cereal or toast around me but we once had a huge argument because in total silence he once took a huge unnecessary bite of crunchy pizza - I ran off upstairs crying.

I stopped seeing a friend as she used to turn up at mine with a sausage sandwich covered in bbq sauce and she used to twirl the sandwich round and suck the sauce off noisily. 🤢

My brother also has misophonia and my daughter looks like she has it.
People who have no issue with noise seem to think you're just rude or overreacting but all joking aside it genuinely has a massive impact on your life and unless you experience the horrible way it causes you to react you just don't get it.

Wow - misophonia seems to be amazingly common, judging by the number of threads about it on MN! Does anyone know what causes it? (I mean, I know the reaction is caused by noise, but does anyone know what causes some people to have it?). I don't have any particular noises I find annoying tbh.

Not to mention those adverts for crisps/tacos where their actual selling point is how cocking LOUDLY they are able to be eaten 😬. I wont be applying for the job of sound engineer on the set of one of those any time soon

So at the end of a bad of crisps just when you’ve gone over 50 ways to murder him in your head he doesn’t do the crisp drinking oh no he licks his finger and goes round the inside of the packet for crumbs or bits of salt and vinegar (his favourite), then the crisp packet gets folded into a triangle because it’s neater, I have to pick the sodding triangles up!

I have had to skim read page 1 as it's late, but this is so hilarious and I can totally resonate with almost all of the comments. Thank god I am single!!! This has brought back memories of slurpy, crunchy, twattishnesh of my ex.

I think I have this condition as well, as I cannot tolerate irritating noises. Girl at work eats melon, I hate her for it. And if she has chocolate she likes, she makes the most disgusting orgasm type sounds.

Apple crunching boss. I have to leave the room. I cannot stand it. Oh and the fucking melon girl, when she puts her stupid sweetners in her tea, she clinks and stirs for about 5 minutes with the spoon scraping the bottom of the cup. In the absence of a spoon she used scissors or anything to hand really. It also irritates me that she then puts whichever implement she has used either in her drawer or on the desk.

Haha no wonder I am still single

Oh God, the running fingers round the bottom of crisp packets and then licking them. Not noisy, just irritating. Someone asked upthread how a bag of crisps should be eaten. Sucked until they are soft enough to masticate quietly.

Can I add into the mix people who grunt when they are eating.

My mum bless her does this....I cannot sit in silence, there needs to be some kind of background noise.

When I visit her she insists on turning the tv off when we chat, ok I see why but instead I ask just to turn it down low. Nope she turns it right off then gets something to eat and all I can hear is the munching.

It literally makes me curl awkwardly and I just want to scream. I have ran out of the house before now