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Is misophonia or the milder affliction (annoyance vs. rage) many of you describe more common among women? Seems to me it is.
One day at a time
Trent, our 16-year-old son definitely has this. The article also fits him to a tee. We don't force him to eat dinner with us any more. He used to plug up his left ear with his left index finger, then hunch down so that his right ear was on his right shoulder as he ate with a fork in his right hand! It drove me nuts. If I even come into the room with a cup of coffee, he starts cringing. He actually just left the room, because he can't stand hearing me type! He has said specifically that it "enrages" him.
With his older brother's mental health issues, it used to really worry me, but I had already discovered the info in this article, so I'm not worried as much now. He seems to handle it OK when he's out in public. I don't know what he will do with his future family.
A Saucy Wench
I think have it to a milder degree. I do get anxiety and irrational anger to gentle sounds but cacophony rarely bothers me. To me the most annoying sound on the planet is the soft "puh" that some people make when they sleep. Not snoring, just "puh". I couldnt sleep in the same room as my kids when they were babies because the small sounds made me furious. I have wanted to throw things at people who typed loudly.
Huh. Never knew it had a name
I have in a lot of ways designed my life around it. I almost always have TV or music going in the background, fan when I sleep. I also tend to talk a lot partially because there MUST be sound in my life. If someone is running near me who is a heavy breather and I cant get away I will talk to them to drown them out.
Mozart is your friend.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
. i can fall asleep in front of the teevee, and then get up and go in the bedroom with the teevee still on in the den, and i have to turn on the air to cover up the sound so i can relax. and i was just asleep in front of the teevee in the den!
i can fall asleep in front of the teevee, and then get up and go in the bedroom with the teevee still on in the den, and i have to turn on the air to cover up the sound so i can relax. and i was just asleep in front of the teevee in the den!
YES! I can sleep on the couch with the TV on, but if dh is downstairs watching TV and i can hear the rumble of voice/music coming through the floor it is like fingernails on chalkboard.
I have this and I get definitely get rage - y (to the point that I hyperventilate). It is the reason I started running 7 years ago...and why, for the most part, I prefer to run alone. It started around age 8 or so, got worse in high school - really bad...then leveled off a bit...then got worse again around 30 or so.
Teresa, there have been times I have had to do what you describe your 16 yr old doing during dinner.
My 7yo daughter has the opposite. She often comments on how much she loves the sound of people eating. But not her own eating because that is too close to her head. I wonder if later on her love will morph into hate.
Hearing these stories is very reassuring. Having met ennay and knifey, I'm surprised to hear that you both have this. I never would have guessed! You both seem pretty normal!
Considering you met me in Vegas, normal is pretty relative.
I'm guessing I have it at a pretty low level, and it really didnt seem to strike me until maybe my early 30's? Maybe I am just getting old and crotchety. But I dont remember having a problem as a teenager with sounds.
Do earplugs work for any of you? For me often the earplugs just make it so I can hear my own pulse and then I want to rip my own heart out.
Misophonia is a condition where you like fake miso soup better than the real thing.
I have Mashedpotatophonia.
Jokes like that will continue as long as politics are being discussed.
You like fake mashed potatoes better than real ones? I've tried to cheat a couple of times at dinner by serving instant. My kids say, "These aren't yours!". Kinda makes me feel good.
There is a restaurant in Detroit Oregon that serves mashed potatoes out of a dispenser that looks EXACTLY like the hot cocoa dispenser next to it. Well except one says "mashed potatoes" and the other says "hot cocoa"
I got french fries.
I do. Texture thing.
I know that's weird.
No...because of the heartbeat but also because I can still slightly hear whatever it is that is making me rage and that only makes it worse. And my reaction really is rage until I say something...I've made myself sick not saying something.
Teresa, there is sooooooooooooooooo much going on in Vegas it was practical designed for someone with Misophonia...or at least whatever I have. The louder the noise the better! It is the quiet, repetitive "non" noises that send me into fits. I feel I am pretty normal but this is definitely my "thing." You know...how everyone has a nutty thing...this is mine.
That is really interesting about your daughter Mimi...I can't even imagine wanting to hear it!
"run" "2" "eat"
i find the sunshine beckons me to open up the gate and dream and dream ~~robbie williams