Do you have misophonia?

I think my reactions are probably below the clinical threshold, but tapping, squeaking, slurping, chewing, etc. do drive me crazy. Many of my students will drum on the table or chair, or if they have a pencil, they tap it. I have to be mindfully calm when I ask them to stop, because what I really want to do is scream, "STOP IT!!!!!"

I have a dear friend who has it. She really suffers and sometimes has to leave the room. She turns on white noise or the TV in the background if she has company and she's worried something will set her off.

Yes, I do believe that I have it. I have gotten better, but When I was in college j would leave classes if someone next to me was chewing gum. I really can't stand it and sometimes have the urge to make a comment or even just slap the person to make it stop. There are a lot of Noises that drive me crazy, but gum chewing is the worst.

Well my dog was just licking himself and I felt all kinds of crazed.

Yes. I have misophonia and several years ago when the Peas diagnosed us all, I felt such a RELIEF that there was a name to what I had and that other people can't stand whistling, for example, or people clicking pens or cutting fingernails (although that one should gross out everyone!).

Whistling is the worst. I have said SHUT UP in stores when people roam the aisles whistling. Not loud, but not to myself either.

I don't know if I would go so far as to say I have misophonia, but there are sounds that annoy me greatly. I can't stand listening to a dog licking itself. Our dogs sleep in the kids' rooms because our previous dog would clean her feet at night. I had to kick her out. It was awful. I also have been known to make my husband sit on the other side of the room to eat. To be fair, he's a noisy eater and doesn't see the problem with his eating habits at all. He doesn't have many bad habits so I guess I'll put up with it.

Chewing and my dog licking make me want to go stabby. I hate when dh chews gum. He looks like a cow chewing its cud and sounds worse. He thinks it's funny when I tell him to stop because the sound hurts. He smacks that much worse on purpose. He seriously doesn't get it. The other day I had enough. I flipped out and told him it was rude, immature and dickish. He said he had always chewed gum like that. I told him that's because no one called him out on it.

Whistling almost makes me homicidal. It's got to be the most piercing noise on earth. Painful.

Other irritating (to me) noises are crinkling bags like chip bags where the person is digging around to grab a handful, silverware scraping on a plate, and nail clipping. I wear headphones pretty much constantly at work to block the noise from the cube farm I sit in.

I seriously love you.

Yes. Gum popping is the absolute worst sound in the world. Smacking food/lips and nail clippers rate pretty high on the rage-o-meter, as well.

Yes, and I live with a son that has tics. Some days I'm one tic away from a complete meltdown.

I don't but my sister does. While I feel bad for her, it is hard to be around her. If I cough or clear my throat, she practically throws me out of the house. I know she can't help it, but I can't help my occasional cough either.

My dad had a condition which caused him to have a chronic cough. When he died, she hadnt see him for 5 years. She said she just couldn't deal with the cough. I was sad for my dad. He once asked me why she hated him he couldn't help it. It broke my heart. Tried to explain why she was like that and she could help it either but he couldn't understand why she couldn't tolerate his cough for a few hours just to come see him

She rarely goes to movies because of this but will get out once in a while.  She had been known to get up and leave in the middle of a movie and wait for me in the lobby.  When I ask why she left, she would say...."that person in the back kept sniffling (or clearing their throat or coughing)" and she couldn't stand it.  I, on the other hand, never even heard the person that she was referring to.   I can ignore noise like that.

I forgot about that one!  I guess I have a lot of noises that annoy me.  I don't like listening to my husband (and others) eat either.  They don't chew with their mouth open, and it's mostly when he eats bread.  But I am probably just as bad!  I am a loud chewer, so I when I go out to eat with friends, I order something I can eat more "quietly".  For some reason, it's the quiet chewing that bothers me more than chips.

DD does. It's difficult to deal with too.

For me too!

DH has it. It doesn't even have to be anything noisy, if someone is chewing anything around him (even with their mouth closed) and he's not also eating, the sound drives him crazy. Once when his mom was alive, he mentioned something to me about how loudly she swallowed and I thought he must be nuts. Then we had lunch with her, and OMG, it was weird how loudly she swallowed and weirder still that I never noticed it until he said something about it! It was a loud GULP! GULP! GULP! sound. Thanks, thanks a LOT for pointing that out, dear! After that it drove me nuts too.

And ha ha, last week DD (5) and I went on a little mini road trip with some friends and that kid would just NOT SHUT UP with the goofy air-swishing mouth noises the whole time we were in the car! I kept telling her to knock it off and five minutes later she would start back up again.