Misophonia

[foxy]

I bet you were at the local disco strutting your stuff

Wow, he could dance then? I liked this clip. My misophonia is in the morning only, with no noise at all. My wife says it is Asperger's which makes folk hate noise. So now I have been diagnosed I will have to go to the doctors for a second opinion.
Side note a good Aussie band singing in the original clip.

 

[An Ankoù]

My wife says it is Asperger's which makes folk hate noise. So now I have been diagnosed I will have to go to the doctors for a second opinion.

Here's a second opinion, it's tourette's, not Aspergers. You should hear The Wise One giving users of leaf blowers and the owners of barking dogs a piece of her mind!

 

[foxy]

Here's a second opinion, it's tourette's, not Aspergers. You should hear The Wise One giving users of leaf blowers and the owners of barking dogs a piece of her mind!

Try doing a crossword while the wife is banging around in the kitchen. Morning is the worst time for those of us trying to get the brain to negate the problems of a crossword or code cracker.

 

[Graz]

Although she'll never admit it my wife suffers from this massively. Makes mealtimes interesting as you get some comment made if you happen to be a bit noisy eating or inadvertently speak with any food in your mouth. I mean I get that some of this is not good manners but she takes it to the extreme. The kids are also on the receiving end quite often.

I have brought it up once or twice but it's us not her apparently.

I probably also suffer a bit as there's certain noises and so on that annoy me but not to her level.

 

[foxy]

OK, we have discussed what our annoyances are. How many people have taken advantage of another person's misophonia?

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Although she'll never admit it my wife suffers from this massively. Makes mealtimes interesting as you get some comment made if you happen to be a bit noisy eating or inadvertently speak with any food in your mouth. I mean I get that some of this is not good manners but she takes it to the extreme. The kids are also on the receiving end quite often.

I have brought it up once or twice but it's us not her apparently.

I probably also suffer a bit as there's certain noises and so on that annoy me but not to her level.

I feel for your wife - totally understand her reaction.

Not sure if she's the same in this respect, but for me the annoyance doesn't gradually build up, its 10/10 immediately. It actually makes you seethingly angry that the noise even exists, no matter how quiet or normal the noise is. I've taken to suffering in silence or just walking away from the noise because I don't want to be seen as a **** if I say something. There's a fine line in my opinion from just being a grumpy a$$hole to genuinely finding a noise impossible to bear.

Mine is getting worse all the time I'm sad to say and is becoming a massive problem. It's progressed to any noise at all that is constant. My latest one is when we are in the car and my youngest son (aged 27) is brushing his coat against the inside of the car. Sounds like a faint shuffling sound but I hear it loud and clear. In this case I don't say anything as he is extremely sensitive and this would upset him. It takes all the strength I have to keep my gob shut!

I wish I wasn't this way, but sometimes it helps if family and friends know that the person with Misophonia can't help it and they're not being dicks on purpose (or at all).

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

OK, we have discussed what our annoyances are. How many people have taken advantage of another person's misophonia?

What sort of lowlife would do that?

 

[Rodcx500z]

What sort of lowlife would do that?

Just ask an Aussie

 

[Clint]

Depends if the sufferer was themselves a lowlife. I know some lowlifes that need putting right.

 

[foxy]

What sort of lowlife would do that?

That is why I am asking.

 

[An Ankoù]

It's curious that the noises that put others on edge are, when you listen to them, annoying, but I seem to be able to block them out. When The Wise One starts complaining that the neighbour's dog is barking again (and this is a truly deranged dog who will bark incessantly and at nothing while living, as far as I can see, in a doggy paradise and is owned by a lonely old chap who loves it like a son) I can only say "oh yeah, so he is" because I hadn't noticed until she mentioned it. Same with most other annoying noises. And yet I'll be the first to notice something unusual or "wrong" in the soundscape. Another thing that really gets Milady's goat is the shi'ite music played in the background in supermarkets and other shops. I don't even notice it, but, when made to listen, it is truly awful.