Misophonia

[SquishTheWhale]

Apples are okay if cut into segments. Can't watch people eat them whole, that big slurp noise they make after the bite 🤢

[WhereIBelong]

Perhaps we should all show our partners (or their mothers) this thread - see, seeeee - it is not just me... it IS a thing...

[mskitty]

Not sure if what I have is this or if indeed I have anything at all, maybe I'm just a miserable cow... but I just can't cope with two conflicting noises in small spaces. For example if dh has the TV on but then ds is watching YouTube in the same room, or yesterday in the car the radio was on, plus the kids were playing games on their phones. I had to put my headphones in.

It makes me feel uncomfortable and on edge and can send me in to a bit of a rage.

[WhereIBelong]

Originally Posted by mskitty

Not sure if what I have is this or if indeed I have anything at all, maybe I'm just a miserable cow... but I just can't cope with two conflicting noises in small spaces. For example if dh has the TV on but then ds is watching YouTube in the same room, or yesterday in the car the radio was on, plus the kids were playing games on their phones. I had to put my headphones in.

It makes me feel uncomfortable and on edge and can send me in to a bit of a rage.

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It is the same thing. The uncomfortable/on edge/rage give it away...

This is also one of my triggers. And if there are 2 things going and someone wants to talk to me... the rage descends...

[SquishTheWhale]

Could it be somehow linked to Autism? The inability to process some sounds/overloading and the irrational rage sound very similar. Lots of Autism in my family, including 3 cousins my age who sadly have the mental age of toddlers.

[Guest]

Like another dibber said this thread has been good for my marriage! OH seems to have developed this is he gets older. I thought it was just stress. His is mainly electrical noises (buzzing or humming), sniffing or bumping noises with no rhythm. I.e. if housekeeping is doing the room next door he gets the rage. The problem is when he's most wound up he doesn't understand why no one nearby is bothered (often I can't even hear what is enraging him) so often is the time he is explaining the issue to a baffled hotel employee who can't even hear and looks at him like he is mad, which exacerbates the problem!

[Tre85]

I have this! Its a form of anxiety so sometimes I can cope and others I can't and become obsessed.

My triggers are -

- The sound of a ball bouncing! We actually moved house because our old neighbours kids would play football all day and night. I became quite ill because of this.
- When cutlery is dumped into a tray onto other cutlery
- The sound of metal on glass eg a fork in a beetroot jar
- And like mskitty too many noises in one place. If we're in the car with the radio on and OH tries to tell me something sometimes I just flip and slam my hand on the off switch of the radio!

Some I can handle quite well as they are over in seconds but others just tip me over the edge.

[Tracydcp]

Oh god this is me too! DH annoys the hell out of me with his snoring, and he goes through so many variations of it too. I often wake up quite early and if he’s maki g any sort of noise, even breathing too loud, I have to get up otherwise I feel like I’ll end up suffocating him! And don’t get me started on his eating, I really don’t know how he manages to eat yogurts noisily but he does. And other culprits are apples, cereal, crisps, the list goes on.

[Floridadreams]

I’ve just come across this thread as we believe my daughter has misophonia. It started being an issue (well one we were aware of) during the first lockdown, really came to a head in August and has continued at various levels since then. Her trigger is eating noises from the rest of us in the house. She gets angry and upset if it’s too much.
Does anyone have any tips for coping? She is 12 and I think hormones might be making it particularly bad this week! Plus there’s the potential anxiety from this lockdown etc. She wants to try to carry on with family dinnertime. We currently have music on and last night she wore silicone earplugs and was like a different child. But then someone has now said that could make it worse for her because it could make her eating sounds a trigger 🙈🙈🙈

[SquishTheWhale]

Originally Posted by Floridadreams

I’ve just come across this thread as we believe my daughter has misophonia. It started being an issue (well one we were aware of) during the first lockdown, really came to a head in August and has continued at various levels since then. Her trigger is eating noises from the rest of us in the house. She gets angry and upset if it’s too much.
Does anyone have any tips for coping? She is 12 and I think hormones might be making it particularly bad this week! Plus there’s the potential anxiety from this lockdown etc. She wants to try to carry on with family dinnertime. We currently have music on and last night she wore silicone earplugs and was like a different child. But then someone has now said that could make it worse for her because it could make her eating sounds a trigger 🙈🙈🙈

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I'd say let her listen to music or have earplugs in. It may not get rid of the issue or make it a trigger but as she gets older she'll get better at dealing with it.

If someone is eating next to me on the bus I want to rip their face off but obviously as I'm an adult I have enough control to get through it!