Does anyone have misophonia?

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I’ve heard it called a number of things, linked to autism, hyperacusis, etc.

I have it. I hate the sound of people, some in particular, eating - not just how everyone hates nails down a blackboard kind of thing - but like a phobia, but instead of extreme fear I have extreme anger.

I will not entertain the idea of being in the same building as the person who triggers me the most - it’s had a huge impact on my life and has gotten increasingly worse.

There are a few other sounds too. But eating is the main one. Does anyone else have it?

yabu: pull yourself together
yanbu: you have heard of it, have it, or understand where I’m coming from

Why are those the voting options?

I don't have misophonia but that doesn't mean I think sufferers should 'pull themselves together'.

Yanbu. It's definitely a thing.

I hate ‘mouth noises’. Kissing, raspberry blowing, tutting, tongue clicking. Gives me an irrational rage.

Not sure if this counts but my heart races and I feel stressed when I hear sirens or motorbikes / cars that have those super loud exhausts / no mufflers . Sirens in London are sooo loud.

Yes I get it too. Eating and sniffing noises both get to me the most. People who know about it think I'm being a pain but the noises really distress me.

I have this. I can’t stand the sound of people eating by themselves, ie one person in the kitchen eating cereal.

I cannot stand to hear people eating on the radio. Chris Evan’s once ate a pie on the radio and I wanted to kill him. I have never listened to his show again.

Radio news readers either “clicky tongue” ie they’re thirsty and their tongue makes a noise as it is moving ( not speech noise 😂)

I have it and it also makes me angry.... My list is endless, people talking and laughing loudly (some women's screechy voices). my phone ringing, workmen and radio 1, the tap dripping... the sound of colleagues droning on and on about some boring story. Mobiles on loudspeakers, children crying especially when they do that breath holding thing and you are waiting for the next almighty wail. Music in pubs.. I think it's an age thing - I just want some peace, I totally get you!

Half of fucking mumsnet have it OP. And the other half have emetophobia. I’m not sure where dementia, autism and ADHD all fit in to this wonderful Venn diagram of self-diagnosis

Can definitely relate.

Some foods trigger me more than others. Soup, noodles…wet foods. I get irrationally pissed off with anyone making eating sounds. Chewing, slurping, the movement of their tongue around their wet mouth. Vile. Cretinous arseholes need to shut their mouth - literally.

I have this. Eating noises absolutely disgust me. If someone eats near me and I can hear the chewing or masticating I feel violently angry. Sometimes I have to make an excuse to leave the table or the room. If I’m on a train and someone gets on with a bag of food or a packet of crisps and sits near me, I get up and move elsewhere. It’s only food noises and gulping drinks that provokes reaction in me. Other noises I’m absolutely fine with.

No, but I have heard of it, how long have you had your diagnosis?

Eating, sniffing, knuckle cracking, tapping on a computer- drive me into a state of irritation which is so extreme that I feel like I could fly out the window. I will do almost anything to get away from the noise. I hate being rude, but just can't control this.

Yes! It's irrational hatred 😂 other people chewing drives me crazy. But I also hate the sound of it dishwasher (so much so that it only goes on over night so I can't hear it!). I also used to live in a flat about 5 years ago where there was a tram station outside and it used to make the most irritating "ding" sound every time it left. Still drives me crazy thinking about it now 😂

Yes I have it badly. Cannot stand crinkling and crackling of packets and people eating.
cracking knuckles is terrible to me. My poor children have to tiptoe around me trying not to do these things. It’s not their fault but it’s not mine either

Babies crying. I find it so repulsive I want to smash their squishy heads in (I'm aware this will make a ton of people angry). I literally can't help it, the anger is entirely consuming. I even get angry at the small noises they make that aren't crying and the sound of babies laughing, the crying is the worse but the tyer equally make me want to slap/smack whatever is making the sound.

It's worth mentioning not much else actually makes me truly angry, sure I'm opinionated and have my say but I'm not really genuinely angered by much else.

Had it my whole life, goes through phases of severity. I think most ppl don't understand that it's not just being annoyed or irritated by a sound, it triggers your fight or flight - it's horrible & there's nothing you can do about the feeling.

Although I have really bad, I take great pains to not make it anyone's issue, I just remove myself.
However, people who eat and drink on tiktok videos are some of the most irritating people on planet earth, because someone told them that eating/drinking makes them more relatable/more relaxed - but why would you want to alienate half the audience immediately?
Folks in the comments point it out and yet they still do it, for no good reason. I practically break my fingers scrolling away.

My 11 year old daughter has it, she will not sit at the table for dinner, she in particular hates my oldest son eating (i can't hear him eating but she says he is disgusting)

Oh I can’t stand that either but never knew how to describe it.

I’ve always hated mouth sounds but since having my baby 4 months ago, I now also can’t stand my dogs making licking noises or the tip tapping sound of them on the wooden floors.

Chewing sounds.

Snoring or even breathing, including myself, I have to play white noise all night long.

I’ve had it for as long as I can remember and it is horrible. When I was young It used to be mainly eating/drinking sounds that gave me extreme rage and family mealtimes where a nightmare for me, I would often end up in tears. I’ve found as I’ve got older the number of sounds that set me off is ever increasing, as is my rage!

I have it a bit. It's wet slurpy mouth noises and tends to be just certain people. My dog does a licking thing. Someone on the train yesterday sat down breathing heavily and then it turned into lip smacking. And someone I know who used to take each individual crisp and crunch it in half loudly.

Sometimes colleagues in my (generally quiet) office will start eating noisily and I have to leave the room but because it obviously takes some time to lock the computer, get up from the chair and walk towards the exit I will actually start to emit a stream of low-level noises - humming, muttering, sighing - whatever - to block it out until I have escaped.

Also, where I live in North London we are plagued by mopeds and joy-ridden Lime bikes and I sometimes feel, when listening, for the 100th time that day, to the remorseless groaning of the mopeds' engines, or the click-click-clicking or the beep-beep-beeping of the infernal Limes, that I will go mad - especially as these sounds appear to bother precisely no one else...

I think I might. I struggle when there are several distinct "layers" of noise. It's fine out and about where it sort of becomes a "dull roar" as one of my old teachers was fond of saying but the other day, the TV was on relatively loud (for my liking), my daughter was talking and my husband was loading or unloading the dishwasher and honestly every clatter of the plates made me shudder.