or just a big jerk or overly sensitive or something. But here it is, in the New York Times. I have misphonia. So if I leave the room if you're eating chips or crunching ice, it's not because I don't love you. I'm just trying my best to deal with my disability. Thanks for understanding.
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
― C.S. Lewis
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Oh my gosh...for me it isn't food, it's the sound of someone's feet rubbing on carpet especially sock feet. Anything rubbing carpet really, or when people run their fingers across the fabric ceiling in cars. And I get pale and nauseated when I hear a sharpie writing on cardboard. It's making me sick just thinking about it.
I'm glad to know that people like this are out there. I NEVER would want to inadvertantly send someone into a fit of rage!
ha ha ha ..what?!?! ahaha
I didn't post this as a joke. I really do have a problem with some sounds, and I was so happy to read that it isn't just me and there is a name and a cause for it. The treatment is just for me to understand what is happening and use that to deal with the anxiety, anger, and pain that other people's everyday actions cause me because I'm just oversensitive to some sounds. If I have to leave the room, I'll leave the room. If I ask someone not to smack their gum or chew ice around me, then I hope that I can do it in a nice way and they'll try to stop. But most of the time, I just have to take deep breaths and try to block it out.
Diane knows that I also suffer from this. For me it can be anything from eating noises to hearing radio, TV, etc., through the walls, and my biggest foe: cracking and popping gum.
For so many years I thought it was because people were bad, but didn't understand why I was the only one that apparently thought so. Then I figured that I was a bad person because of the rage I would feel when things like that happened.
Now, like Diane, I know that I have a sensitivity to certain noises, and that I need to adapt as much as possible. At work I keep a fan on all day, and I have a noise cancelling headset and MP3 player that blocks out a lot of the noises I can't handle.
I'm also thankful that Diane saw this report so I don't feel alone, or like a horrible person.
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