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Misophonia - What sounds can you simply not stand?

Sgt Hartman

I read up recently on misophonia, which is a condition where people simply cannot stand certain sounds. Examples include loud or sloppy eating, sneezing, drumming of fingers etc. For me it's loud and messy eaters, the sound of someone sloshing food around their mouths or smacking/sucking their lips is enough to make me want to shake with rage.

What sounds drive you utterly crazy??

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JohnnyFlash

Dublin taxi drivers talking.

Beanntraigheach

A sweeping brush being used on a dry rough surface, like concrete. Just thinking about it is unsettling.

Also "vocal fry".

Wibbs

Can't think of any TBH. Snoring maybe, yeah snoring. But that's more about not being able to tune it out and not getting decent sleep because of it.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Chalk on blackboards - pretty standard!

I actually find the sound of people snoring and its rhythmic nature very relaxing.

Sgt Hartman

People who continue talking while their throat is clogged with phlegm. That vile gravelly voice sounds like coal being shovelled.

Ted_YNWA

People who slurp soup. Work colleague takes his lunch break early & has it as his desk.

One of these days, he will be wearing it.

Touchee

Loud eating & loud drinking. I never thought loud drinking is possible but now I sit next to someone in work who smacks his lips after every sip of water.

I have to wear some massive headphones so I can focus and stop getting annoyed. People should be taught basic manners at home. It’s not that difficult really!

lertsnim

Concrete being swept with a yard brush, or any brush for that matter.

EllieB

So many....

People eating, even if they manage to keep their mouth closed, if it’s a quiet room and I can hear you chewing I have to leave!

Keyboard clicks on a phone.... ffs, why do you even have this turned on?

Snoring.... induces rage in me... but in fairness, I’m such a light sleeper (especially now at 38 weeks pregnant) that I’d hear a mouse farting in the next room.

Heavy breathing

People talking at the top of their voices.... we’re neither deaf nor in a packed pub, why are shouting?

Sardonicat

The Cavan woman's voice in the new lidl ad (or is it aldi? ) makes me want to rip off my ears

[Deleted User]

All year round coughing in the office by the same culprits everytime just infuriates me to no end, I can no longer drown it out and it just becomes the focus of my day and makes me extremely passive aggressive towards them.Also extra loud people in the work canteen, like stfu already . Lastly people poking the life out of the plastic film on those monstrosities otherwise known as microwave dinners with a fork

hellsing101

People biting their nails, girlfriend does it constantly and it drives me up the wall.

o1s1n

That caterwauling type singing that the likes of Florence and The Machine/Adele do. I have to leave the room.

Wowowowooooohohohohhowowow

retro:electro

Sardonicat wrote: »

The Cavan woman's voice in the new lidl ad (or is it aldi? ) makes me want to rip off my ears

Chaaavan people eat thur dinner ouhova dhrarrrr

El_Duderino 09

Wibbs wrote: »

Can't think of any TBH. Snoring maybe, yeah snoring. But that's more about not being able to tune it out and not getting decent sleep because of it.

Misophonia is more of an irrational involuntarily reaction. I don't think nails on a blackboard even counts because that's something almost everyone finds horrible. This is things like some posters mentioned like the sound of crisp packets rustling being intolerable and causing anxiety.

I don't experience it either BTW. Just the normal irritation at hearing someone masticating.

It's liked to irrational revulsion at certain words like the word 'moist'. Stuff You Should Know did a podcast about it years ago. Really interesting.

SEPT 23 1989

Golf supporters clapping on TV

Strange one I know

jojofizzio

retro:electro wrote: »

Chaaavan people eat thur dinner ouhova dhrarrrr

ROFL

:D:D....that is exactly how they drawl it out

[Deleted User]

The sound of an extractor fan. It's a relatively quiet noise so I often don't even notice it's been turned on. Then I find myself getting irritated and snapping at people and feeling anxious and a bit worked up and then someone will turn it off and I immediately feel real relief and I realise that's what was wrong with me all along.

nullzero

People slurping hot drinks, also relates to the smell of coffee off of people's breath.

Sardonicat

retro:electro wrote: »

Chaaavan people eat thur dinner ouhova dhrarrrr

Ah the accent is fine, it's her voice. Actually it's probably a combination of the two. She'd probably sound sexy if she was from Donegal. On second thoughts, I wouldn't go that far, but the voice combined with a different accent probably wouldn't induce the urge to mutilate my ears.

Bobblehats

nullzero wrote: »

People slurping hot drinks, also relates to the smell of coffee off of people's breath.

On the subject. The slurping of miso soup -.-

Melania Frump

Knuckles cracking. Just rotten.

olestoepoke

Never knew there was a name for it until recently but I get really irritated listening to people eat. Especially crunchy foods like crisps.

Graces7

Barking dogs late at night... like now... woke me up again.

DrPhilG

I suffer from this. Its not so much annoying noises, the average annoying noise like eating with an open mouth is annoying to most people.

It's the reaction that noise brings, like feeling like you're going to break into a sweat, and a genuine feeling of anger towards the culprit.

Plus you may get that reaction to other noises that the majority wouldn't notice.

I left the room for 5 minutes today because a colleague beside me was eating crisps. Not just standard crisp eating either, but really really slow chew so that every crunch was long and drawn out.

People who have a particularly noisy gulp when they drink. We all probably know someone who does it, apparently caused by a type of reflux, or by having a larger than usual larynx or something.

My wife does it, and one of my bosses. Makes me flinch every time.

Some people have Misphonia really severely, cripplingly so. Like they freak out and have a panic attack because someone is making a noise that sets them off.

Is it a form of mental illness? I'd see it more like a phobia, of irritating noises. I's certainly irrational. It has been compared to some features of autism.

Ps I have given serious thought to selling a car because I couldn't locate the source of a rattle.

Arghus

People brushing their teeth, especially if they try to talk at some point - it makes me gag. I barely stand hearing myself brushing.

Nails on a chalkboard? Cutlery? No. The absolute worst sound is hearing another person taking a shit. It is, come on. Especially if you can tell who it is that is doing it. I hate being able to put a face on the asshole.

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Graces7 wrote: »

Barking dogs late at night... like now... woke me up again.

I've had to move twice now because of dogs. The rage that builds inside me is at the shltty owners rather than the dogs themselves. And the last place had a rooster, too. In the middle of a city. Dogs and roosters everywhere.

At least it gave me opportunity to practice my more colorful Vietnamese.

Gynoid

The amount of people who detest the sounds of people ordinarily eating is kind of freaking me out here. How the heck else is the species supposed to assimilate nourishment? I have met hardly any open mouthed nasty masticators. Ye must not have been breastfed long enough, thats all I can think...ever listened to that sound? Little violently slurping gulping guzzling monsters

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Gynoid wrote: »

How the heck else is the species supposed to assimilate nourishment?

Quietly.

Gynoid

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Quietly.

Haha

many cultures eat very noisily. It is kind of human. To slurp, click, moan, groan, bite, chomp, lick etc. Do other mouth sounds in other contexts bother people, I wonder?
PS I dont eat very noisily.