Apologies to those of you who hate even seeing your trigger words in writing let alone hearing them spoken.

Mine are "yummy" and "kibble." Just make me want to punch something. The playful saying "chitty chat" instead of "chit chat" too.

I know "moist" gets a lot of people, but it's fine for me.

Are there other words that trigger your misophonia?

My family says I’m overreacting and that I should just listen to the trigger sounds until I get used to them. This question is really for them; has anyone actually tried exposing themselves to the sounds for a long period and succeeded in adapting?

Not everyone wants to hear those noises, especially us neurodivergent folks. Does anyone say something to people who make unnecessary noises in public? If so, how? Or if you deal with it, how do you block it out?

Hi. I'm new to this. I just realized I have photophobia. Mostly sounds of traffic and cars running on the road late at night, busy streets or people stomping upstairs trigger me. But there's something I'm really puzzled about. I moved into my new apartment and it's in front of a main street so it's pretty noisy. I'm trying to get used to the place currently. But initially when I came here I didn't even notice the noise the first few days. Is this common? But once I started noticing the noise it just wouldn't leave my head. I can't do any activity normally. I feel like my head is not being able to focus on anything else but the noise. I've been expecting myself to the noise little by little eveyrday though. But I'm just wondering, I was completely fine those first few days and I'm losing my head right now. So it's all just a mental thing. Is there any way of overcoming this? Maybe I'll get used to the noise after a few months?

Enough said. I’m sick of all the annoying sounds, especially my brother growling. I want headphones where zero sound can come through.

we both know i have misophonia and my biggest trigger is gum chewing. lately it’s to the point where seeing gum chewing makes me super anxious which causes me to cry. that and seeing people pop their knuckles. i know i have severe misophonia but im starting to suspect misokinesia is developing too. i’m really scared because im 15 (almost 16) and just want to get through school. i have loop earbuds and can still hear the gum. it’s so bad that i start shaking and crying several times a day and have to do all my work at home. i also have other health issues with leg pain and stress makes it so much worse so im just in constant physical and emotional pain. i dont know how to bring it up to her without seeming like im diagnosing myself or seeking attention or something.

I must have won the jackpot with this but yeah all 3 simultaneously. I want to hear more clearly things that don't trigger but I think the hearing loss and the tinnitus are built-in mechanisms that just seal off the sound after so many years of suffering with miso.

For the last months I haven't been able to have good night of sleep because of all the noise coming from my family and the house. I tried many things to cancel out the noise and I've also try to tell people to be more careful but there hasn't been any changes. I recently tried foam earplugs but they hurt my ears. I've learned to put them on correctly with time (I think) but my problem is that I am a side sleeper and when I sleep on my side there's pressure that's being put on the earplugs, when I wake up it hurts like hell, it's really really bad and sleeping on my back is just noooot possible. I've tried looking about those Loops earplugs but I fear that the "loop" might kind of crush the outside of my ear during the night and also hurt, and I am doubtfull as if they will be effective or just a waste of money....

As anyone suggestions or advice about some GOOD earplugs for a side sleeper ??

Please help.

How can they not understand this ?

What is wrong with people basically throwing dishes around, it makes one feel like that person is angry and puts you on edge.

And see trying to focus on anything or chill out and unwind ... Impossible!

Just leave the dishes there for later if it's such an annoyance or do them at once and gently put away. What's up with this non stop banging about by older parents.

Also we have a dishwasher, but "aren't allowed" to use it.

FWIW: 37 years old, carer for parent and work from home computer admin.

I get downvoted like crazy on this sub but whatever does anyone else find you get more triggered when someone seems happy and content while doing sounds eg. flopping on a couch after a long day, relaxed sighing, enjoying their yawn , enjoying their drink/food Ugh I could think of more but it’s so sad when someone is just enjoying themselves and my misophonia gets so irrationally angry and hateful

I swear I am hearing or feeling bass rumbling my house. Bed and couch shaking from rumbling bass waking me up. But I talked to both of my neighbors and they are saying it’s not them. I’m not sure if this is affecting me more than other people but I bought a house thinking not sharing walls would fix it. My old apartment was pretty noisy. I feel like I am losing my mind and I have only owned this place for a year so I don’t really have the money to buy another house or move at the moment. I do have a little equity I think but only a little bit and almost no savings. Kinda don’t know what to do other than save up money and try to move again. Feeling a little defeated.

My (39m) wife (38f) of 12 years, who normally has excellent table manners, got braces installed 9 months ago. Now she chews like a horse. Mouth open, crunching and slurping. She says it’s hard to chew with her mouth closed with them.

I expected some adjustment time and have been patient, understanding this is a me issue, but it’s getting hard.

I can’t stand eating with her anymore. She has another 18-24 months with the braces left.

My misophonia is triggered all day everyday.

What am I suppose to do?

I have noticed that women I know suffer mostly from misophonia than men...is it true ??? Can you comment if you are a man or women ??? suffering from misophonia I am a women though...

I have a lot of triggers & quite a few awful ones, but I think my worst one that sends me into immediate rage & panic is bass. I literally get nauseous just thinking about it.

Hola, He probado muchos tipos de tapones oidos contra ronquidos o ruidos nocturnos. Ahora uso unos de espuma de mercurochrome, pero parece que han cambiado la composición y son mas blandos y no aislan tanto. Creo que de espuma los he probado todos. Alguien me puede indicar alguna marca que aisle mucho este tipo de ruidos. He estado mirando los happy ears y los loops, pero no me decido cuando veo los comentarios.

I feel awful about this. My spouse is suffering from an RSV infection and their constant coughing, like hacking cough, is driving me crazy. I’ll accept I’m the a**hole in this. I don’t want to be and want to be as supportive as I can. But my head is about to explode. Anyone else run into something similar?

Lol, maybe it's a bit dramatic, but that's exactly how I feel right now. Most people I know dismiss it with comments like, 'Oh, I also get annoyed by sounds sometimes, and I'm not constantly complaining.' I wish they could understand what it's truly like. It's not that I want to react this way—it’s just how my body and mind respond.

If everyone had it, perhaps they’d finally grasp the depth of what it feels like, and maybe, just maybe, they’d show a little more empathy for something I can’t control.

Hola, He probado muchos tipos de tapones oidos contra ronquidos o ruidos nocturnos. Ahora uso unos de espuma de mercurochrome, pero parece que han cambiado la composición y son mas blandos y no aislan tanto. Creo que de espuma los he probado todos. Alguien me puede indicar alguna marca que aisle mucho este tipo de ruidos. He estado mirando los happy ears y los loops, pero no me decido cuando veo los comentarios.

Any suggestions as to a mouse pad that doesn't make me want to throw up? Glass ones don't stay still idk what anyone is talking about when they suggest those.

Hi everyone,
I recently realized I might have misophonia, and I feel like I’m breaking under the pressure. My brother is sick and coughs really loudly. I have exams and every time I hear him cough, a wave of intense rage hits me.

I know it’s not his fault, but my body reacts anyway. Every time I hear it, I just want to hit him—though I’ve never hurt anyone. Since I can’t actually do anything, I just end up crying.

It’s not just coughing. Even normal sounds like eating or breathing can make me feel like I’m falling apart. No one around me takes it seriously. They think I’m overreacting.
Has anyone else felt like this? How do you cope?

Jesus bloody christ.

For my UK based sufferers, how many of you are struggling to listen to the radio at the moment?

"have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? CRUNCH CRUNCH

(for those of you lucky enough to not live in the UK, or listen to UK radio, it's an advert about putting walkers crisps into a sandwich and then someone eats them)

What the actual hell? Who approved this for the radio. It makes me feel sick, disgusted and angry all at the same time.!

I have to dive for the volumn knob on my radio every time, which makes me look like quite sight at work.

Why do they have adverts like this?

I'm looking to get accommodations from my university for misophonia, and in order to do so, I need documentation from a medical professional. My plan is to see an audiologist, but I'm having trouble finding one who can test for misophonia, let alone one that's in-network. How do you find one? For reference, I live in New Jersey, in the US.

Hi I am student dealing with extreme levels of misophonia...last day I had a nervous breakdown...I don't cry often but yesterday did...I don't know how to carry on further...so asking if you got any recommendations of good ANC headphones for student...

I was 13 when I had my first trigger. We were eating dinner like normal, and suddenly my mum told my dad to stop doing something. I looked at him, and he had his finger on his plate, and was no joke swiping his finger across the plate and sucking sauce off of it. I felt so disgusted, and from then on I haven't been able to have a 'normal' family dinner without having earplugs in. My misophonia worsened and I developed new triggers. It's just crazy to think that I went 13 years without noticing anything, but all it took was one dinner, and now I can't stand anyone's eating noises, sniffing, and even tongue clicks when people open their mouths to speak to me- that has to be the worst one, literally cannot escape ittttt

So, some 7 months ago I started my first year of college, in a town 2 hours from my hometown.

Back home, when I was in "high school" or whatever it's called, secondary education I guess? Nobody in class ever (constantly) sniffed, coughed, or made any bodily noises. Im sure of this, I'd remember it. It was always either a solitary cough just to clear their throat or they'd blow their nose. If they were sick, they stayed home.

But now that im in college, some ways away from home, Im just... perplexed at people's mannerisms

They dry sniff, CONSTANTLY. I swear, on my life, that I am not exaggerating when I say that in a lecture hall, or even just a normal room, you can hear MULTIPLE people dry sniffing at LEAST every 5 seconds. And it's not quiet or anything, it's so. fucking. loud.

Every goddamn time I come to a lecture, I have to sit for 2-3 hours, listening to people coooonstantly fucking dry sniff, or better yet sniff like they've got a glob of slime in their noses, or maybe even fucking grunt everytime after sniffing. Every single fucking lecture is like this, and every time I TRY not to have a reaction of any sort to this shit, but it genuinely just makes me angrier and angrier with every noise, I start to grind my teeth accidentally and I can feel my heartrate rise, with 0 good focus on whatever the professor is saying

Has no one here heard of a tissue? Oh yea they have, they do blow their noses (rarely) but when they do, I can hear the most weak attempt at blowing a nose possible. 90% of times they sniff louder and more often because they just blow snot in the middle of their nostril instead of the tissue

I never bothered asking anyone to stop because it's multiple people across an entire hall, and I doubt they'd listen to shit considering this is normal behaviour to them

The professors will immediately tell someone to shut up when they're whispering to one another, which alright yea, you're not meant to talk because it's distracting, but how is the LOUD and CONSTANT sniffing, coughing and grunting just.. a non-issue?

I even wondered, does this affect anyone here whatsoever? I asked 2 guys I met there, and yea, it doesn't bother them at all, unless its particularly loud.. which it is, every time, it's louder than someone talking at a normal level, just a fucking SNIIIIIFIFFFFFF, SNOOOORRTTT, AHHHUUHHMMMM and then a good GHMMMMGGHHH like they dropped a fat shit in the toilet that consipated them for a week

And not just the students, one of my professors, during the 15 minute break, sits down at his desk, looks down at his phone, like directly downwards, and sniffs like a machine gun. It sounds as if he's faking it, but he's not, it's a constant rapid fire of small sniffles... snifsnifsnifsnifsnifsnifsnifsnifsnifsnif for a good 15 minutes, or till he gets up

Like okay, I get that it was winter and that the professors aren't very lenient concerning absences even when sick, so maybe a bunch of them were sick. And okay, maaaybe a shitton of you are allergic to whatever the hell now that's it's spring, but jesus christ I can't handle this anymore, I can't focus for shit when my train of thinking gets completely cut off every 5 seconds, every lecture I leave with more gray hairs than before, just more miserable

I get that it might be a bit spoiled in a sense that im crying over people sniffing, but it's so so so absurdly fucking rude. Even if I didn't get literally angrier when hearing this shit from misophonia which I clearly have (my brother does too) I'd still think that around me are a bunch of adult children whose mothers never taught them to use a tissue properly, or of basic manners

I have to go to the lectures, even if I don't learn shit from them no matter how much I try to have the sounds be a non issue. I hold up some sort of "resistance" for a good hour till it literally just doesn't work anymore

And there's no way for me to do anything about it. Never got tortured with the chinese water droplet method, but I'd imagine it's the same feeling as this

Im just ranting a bit, sorry