Misophonia affects about 10% of the general population. However, misophonia is drastically different from simply being annoyed at a sound. This is not to say misophonia does not result in very, very strong annoyance from sound; annoyance is not the only symptom. Misophonia elicits a physical response, such as flinching (at its most drastic), muscle tension, and/or increase in heart rate. Misophonia also results in a strong emotional response, such as hatred, anxiety (fear of sound is known as phonophobia and is a related, but separate, disorder), wish to harm the source of the sound, and/or anger. 

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misophonia is a sensory disorder where certain sounds (things like chewing, breathing, tapping, any of those little human sounds we make all the time) cause a horrible surge of emotional distress in you. it’s not being “annoyed” or “grossed out” at a sound, it’s having an intense terrible feeling triggered inside you when you hear the noises that makes you want to scream or tear your hair out or claw out your own eardrums with your bare hands just to escape the sound. it’s terrible, and it’s awful, and there’s really no way to make it better or cure it. misokinesia is the same thing but with sights instead of sounds, like fingers moving or someone twirling their hair or even just specific markings on a piece of paper

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me:

misophonia is a sensory disorder where certain sounds (things like chewing, breathing, tapping, any of those little human sounds we make all the time) cause a horrible surge of emotional distress in you. it’s not being “annoyed” or “grossed out” at a sound, it’s having an intense terrible feeling triggered inside you when you hear the noises that makes you want to scream or tear your hair out or claw out your own eardrums with your bare hands just to escape the sound. it’s terrible, and it’s awful, and there’s really no way to make it better or cure it. misokinesia is the same thing but with sights instead of sounds, like fingers moving or someone twirling their hair or even just specific markings on a piece of paper

if you say you have misophonia because you dont like the sound of a fork on a plate or something, you’re frankly being pretty disrespectful.

its the same as saying you’re “oooh so ocd” when you want to tidy something up or make it perfect, or “ohhhh i have adhd because i cant focus on my homework” or whatever just.. yeah.

from personal experience i can say misophonia is a pretty shitty disorder, it’s something that makes your brain process certain sounds as dangers and overreacts as a result 

my brain’s learned to associate certain places with triggers and thus bad places, so. it’s even done this with specific people.

i can’t go to public school anymore because people are always making triggers in my class, so basically i’ve learned to associate school with it. i have headphones that blast white noise on 100 volume but even then i still think i hear the sounds and i still see the visual triggers. thus i cant look up in class at all and i’m always on edge, so i can’t get anything done.

i’m on edge around my own brother because of a trigger he makes every few minutes (that frankly is pretty concerning? he’s been doing it for years. it’s really fucking frequent. like he needs to go to the doctor for this.) and thats just sad…