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this video needs to be expanded with artificial sound effects, like I'm curious how can we have universally recognized triumphant or horror sound tracks and the likes considering how recent the invention of sound effects.
@@lajya01 You are clearly a headphone user and the sound doesn't bother anyone when you are aware of it. Also, thank you for showing me another reason pirated episodes are better. My pirated breaking bad episode had the noise as an ambient sound and never turned into something annoying.
I've always suffered with the sound of metal. The worse for me is a scissors or a stylus on the pencil's graphite. Just the memory of it gives me the creeps.
@HorioaloveRon Ooo, or how about a pencil being sharpened? That was onw of the worst for me. Only one kind of pencil bothered me. It was the older kind that was made out of real wood. That kind squeaked when it was sharpened. That always drovw me nuts.
Oh, thank you. I feel so much better knowing I'm not alone. I have autism and my ears are especially sensitive to sounds. Any really high-pitched noises like mic feedback or the whistling from pronouncing words with the s sound physically hurt my head.
What about the "boom" "boom" that comes out of one of those low rider cars, that drive by. Physically makes me sick to my stomach, and I hate the sounds so much! Another one, is when I hear someone play a musical instrument very loud, and it makes my ears thud. Kind of like when you look at speakers, that move forward, and backwards.
My partner suffers from Misophonia, the horror he goes through when he hears "mouth sounds" is hugely distressing to witness. Luckily I am a quiet eater but we have to be wary when going out to dinner with people we don't know. We recently purchased some earplugs meant to lessen Misophonia's impact and were surprised that they work. Luckily, it is only mouth sounds that affect him.
I've dealt with misophonia for decades, but only during the last five or so years has it been taken more seriously, both online and with professionals I've seen. I actually ended up going on anti-anxiety medication for it, and it has helped me deal with it a lot better over the years. Unlike what seems like most people with misophonia, I don't really have chewing or eating sounds as a trigger, but instead the worst for me are base sounds. A neighbor having a party, with the base music traveling through the walls, will set me off on the most horrible tangent of anger, then self-hatred for knowing that my anger is irrational, then panic that I can't control what I'm feeling - all accompanied by the most horrible sweating and heart racing. I will leave my home in the middle of the night, just basically trying to run away and exercise away the fury and terror out of my head. Another sound that gives the same reaction is snoring. Or, maybe more precisely, even faint sounds of breathing - because then my brain will automatically start expecting snoring soon, and spiral into an episode right at the time where I need to actually sleep and relax. It is wildly inconvenient when trying to live a normal life with a partner.
omg same with the snoring, and everyone in my family snores so loudly!! Sometimes I just try to sleep with noise-cancelling headphones, but those also mess with my breathing I think because I subconsciously regulate it by hearing how clear each breath is. Plus as a swimmer, the water-like silence kinda makes me feel underwater & have an urge to hold/lessen my breath.
That sounds (literally) really horrible. I experience moderate to severe trypophobia. Luckily I can just look away. But part of what's disturbing is that it's _holes._ Pictures of holes. How is it that I can react so strongly to something so silly? But I can't control it, I can't choose to not react. But, as mentioned, I _can_ look away. We can't close our ears. I hope your meds continue to work and improve your situation.
Oh heck, I have this with bass/ low frequency sounds too! Car engines are some of the worst, especially the deeper "rumble" from diesel engines and the bigger engines in trucks, vans, buses, lorries, etc. High-pitched sounds like cutlery and vehicles brakes/ braking do it as well. THE HUM. Had to MOVE to a different city🤯
I relate so wholeheartedly to your pain with bases and snoring. I had to call the cops on a neighbor for his music because the bass was making me go insane, crying, angry, keeping me up at night too. I asked politely so many times for him to stop. But i also have other big triggers like chip bags crinkling and being opened, cutlery scraping on plates, high pitched electrical sounds coming from televisions, fans, air conditioners, fridges, etc…
@@dangerfly yes I commented before I finished the video. So what. I finished the video. Even still, I don’t understand it. Moist doesn’t evoke any of those gross sensations when I heard the word. It is just a word
@@CoconutMigrationCommittee It's just a word to YOU. There are other people out there besides you. A drawing of a roach is also a drawing so why would it gross anyone out? Why do you think you're the main character?
@@dangerfly so all of a sudden commenting an opinion makes me the main character? The world is much different than I thought. Why do you feel the need to attack everything? Are you the enemy? Grow up and have fun in my block box
I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but the sound of a marker when being pressed a little bit harder on the paper when writing. It gives me chills everytime, I hate it.
Hey my brain problem! I would like to say, misophonia feels very different than just “bad sounds.” I don’t like the sound of nails on a chalkboard either, but it does not trigger my misophonia. Misophonia dosent just give me that “bad” feeling like nails on a chalkboard or retching, but causes strong emotional responses like anger and crying, makes me feel helpless. Also, listening to it through a phone is not too bad, I think it’s because I know I can pause it or stop it whenever I want. The context thing is huge!
Agreed. I can tolerate children crying/screeching on a phone but only if it happens to be for a brief period of time. It’s a different story when I’m out in public.
i don't think i have misophonia? but things like certain iphone alarms/loud alarms in general and school bells ringing make me sort of freeze up and stress me out. that might just be a neurodivergent thing though
@@AstralTheNightwing I mean, loud stuff also freezes me, but this feels different to misophonia. For misophonia, the loudness of the sound does not matter at all, as long as I am able to hear it, it will be upsetting, my brain will even strain to hear the bad sound if it is very quiet (for some reason!). I feel getting upset at a wake up alarm or something stressful is not necessarily misophonia as this is associated with a negative emotion, misophonia for me is tied to normally neutral sounds. Like, my morning alarm bothers me because it is associated with the negative emotion of having to get out of my comfy bed, but it does not trigger my misophonia at all. Hope this helps :)
Thank you so much for spreading awareness. I myself suffer pretty severely from misophonia towards certain lip smacking, sniffling and chewing bubblegum with an open mouth. I went through the exact same emotions as the Dr Gregory did, but also having people judge me for my intolerance and my little brother abusing it to annoy me when there really wasn't anything I could do. I was just supposed to suck it up. Recently I've gone to therapy about it and learned ways to cope. Things are going better but I'm far from comfortable around those sounds. I hope everybody who needs it gets access to help like I did.
I also have suffered pretty severely from it. Loud noises, loud chewing and typing along with so many other things make me extremely uncomfortable and give me bad anxiety. When my brother would chew loudly I would yell at him and my parents told me to suck it up too. In the mornings the last thing I wanted to hear was my brother's extremely loud and high pitched prepubecent voice. At school I can't get work done or concentrate because the of the typing or people talking loudly. It got so bad that I got noise canceling ear buds for school. I've never been to a therapist since those are hard to find but I need one.
this has been the MOST RELATABLE TH-cam COMMENT SECTION EVER I’ve used OCD meds for a year and it’s put a soft damper over my disgust for lip-smacking. The price is more unstable emotions.
OH MY GOD MY SIBLINGS ALSO USE CHEWING TO TORTURE ME WHEN THEY'RE MAD AND THEY SPECIFICALLY CHOOSE TIMES WHEN MY HEADPHONES ARE DEAD / BROKEN OR WHEN I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO SOMETHING TO DROWN IT OUT IT MAKES ME SOOOO MAD
that happened sometimes for me with lip smacking and now it’s been slightly better for me because i’ve taken ocd meds for a year can i just say how incredible it is that so many people have this condition? WE ARE NOT ALONE!!
I haven't heard the sound that used to trigger me for years, because the material that creates it is no longer common. In the 'sixties and 'seventies, notebooks, appliance cases and similar items were often covered with ribbed vinyl. The ribs were small, about like human fingerprints. Hearing fingernails on it made me sick. I couldn't even stand to touch the stuff.
lights buzzing... bothered me from youth, spending 8 hours a day hearing them buzz as they flash and flicker during school.. still sets me right on edge, immediately.
I get disgusted by hearing people chew their food and gum. It makes me angry and I never understand why. But when I hear my dog chew I think it’s cute, lol! I’ve also never been affected by the word moist. It makes me think of a moist chocolate cake.
"Moist" just conjures up old ads for cake mix for me. Chewing bothers me when it's sloppy - like when it's someone with loose dentures, or not closing their mouth - or when my cat catches a rodent and just chomps it down. * shudder * Horrible sounds.
As someone with misophonia, I clicked on this willingly and mustn’t get upset at myself for doing it. Let’s see. 0:23 I almost threw up and I feel the urge to delete my spine :( I quite dislike chewing, sipping, and lip smacking noise, but my all time most hated noise is when someone imitates the click of a clock and it makes that horrid hollow click sound. It fills my brain with violence that would put me in a psych ward. I refrain bc if I’m in a ward I can’t see my best friend :(
I have something similar with clicking and chewing is when someone has that awful slimy throat click noise in the back of their throat when they smack their food. My boyfriends friend does it and i don’t have the heart to tell her how much i hate it
I LOVE the sound of Japanese wood scrapers when they’re used properly. But sometimes the blade won’t catch the wood right and it’ll squeak and send uncontrollable goose bumps across my entire body!
@@vaszgul736 I came back to read what other people said and still had a visceral reaction to it. It's like I'm experiencing the lamest form of PTSD lol
I've had Misophonia, and everyone around me said I was just overreacting when I was a child... The instant disgust and anger when people chew with their mouths open has always been agony. Was so glad when I found out it wasn't just me suffering that, being relatively common.
I probably have misophonia but haven't been diagnosed with it. Well, I was dx with hyperacuisis (not sure of spelling) but according to everyone in the comments mentioning that it's range or anger inducing instant reactions to certain noises - I have that. Loud noises (like stupid motorcyles revving up) causes me to become instantly ticked off and I get temporarily ragey and often yell out loud to the a$$hole motorcycle whizzing by, or wahtever caused the loud noise (usually vehicle of some kind). Or my dogs (or the neighbor's dogs) barking aggresively at our neighbor's dogs through the fence. That instantly ticks me off, too.
I have no anger issues or in gerneral im a calm person but hcratching rough plastic makes me very angry within seconds. Most plastic container have this wierd rough blurry surface, hearing the sound of this makes me go in gurrilia mode and punch that plastic out of their hands I guess i have Misophonia
At 47 years old and a Misophonia sufferer for as long as I can remember, it is fair to say I am totally isolated. Never wanting to mingle, always avoid socialising. A disorder I would not wish upon anyone.
Man, I'm sorry. That really sucks. I don't have misophonia, but I have experienced that feeling of rage/panic from certain sounds. It used to happen a lot when I was a teenager, usually early in the morning, and I think it was related to me chronically not getting enough sleep. Having to perceive other people when I was barely awake just felt so mentally draining. It's like I was just anticipating every next noise and I was in this constant state of stress, which eventually became so overwhelming I had to either stop the noise or leave. It was significantly worse in the morning right after getting up, and it was almost exclusively caused by family members. The more time I spent with a person, the more they would trigger the rage. I think it's because I became so familiar with their sounds that I couldn't help but anticipate them, and i was unable to make that anticipation stop, so it was like constantly being on edge. I often would snap at my family members early in the morning because i couldn't contain the rage, and i felt really bad about it later on. I can't imagine having to feel like that all the time. That sounds like torture. I hope you have a pair of noise reduction headphones or something, because I imagine that would help.
@@jamiestratton7925 Loops. I promise you I am not a bot or a shill--those things have made it so I can still be employed. They attenuate the noise so not all of it gets through, and the rage quotient goes way down. I was even able to attend a concert last year (the Hu, a Mongolian metal band), and not a single one of the sounds hurt or set me off. (The bass on some other band's song was a different story, but that punched me in the gut, grabbed my stomach, and *twisted* with extreme prejudice. But, that wasn't my ears or Misophonia going off.)
not sure if this will help but studies have shown magnesium deficiency causes misophonia. perhaps some supplements will help as well as a change in diet? from my research more folate, B6, and omega-3 could also possibly help
1:39 when the chalkboard sound came back I cringed so hard I pulled a muscle in neck..owie. so chalkboard, styrofoam, and microphone feedback were the worst for me.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this. I've had misophonia since I was a kid and it's really hard to live with. Most people just think I'm overreacting and try to annoy me more.
The people who try to annoy us more are the WORST. I went to elementary school with a kid who thought my misophonia was so funny that every time the teacher left the classroom unsupervised, even for a few seconds, he would scramble to the front of the classroom to drag his nails down the chalkboard because he thought my reaction was hilarious.
I'm autistic and have audio processing disorder, so while it's not mysophobia, I am sensitive to noises. My most hated sound is the ones my freezer and fridge make. Their humming is too loud.
Oh god, loud fridges are the worst! I had one that made a weird dull but loud buzzing sound right after I bought it. Turned out to be the back wall of the freezer (which also housed a fan). I knew someone throwing away a fridge with the same wall/fan assembly, so I swapped them out, the noise went away, and it's been bliss ever since. If your fridge is making dumb noises, fix it, there's no escaping otherwise.
real, one of the reasons the night is so appealing, just so much quieter even if I dont notice the sounds they drain me good for me that I dont have even higher sensitivity, or maybe just cause the electric system here's different
while i’m not diagnosed officially, i’ve done research and i strongly relate to a lot of autistic experiences- audio triggers included. the two worst offenders are high school girls chattering/laughing/generally being noisy and one person clapping/stomping. the former will often overload my brain and cause shutdowns if i don’t use ear protection, while the latter is just very intense and distracting.
The sound I dislike the most is nails scratching stainless steel which is most of the time someone just scraping their thermosteel bottle with their nails. It sends shivers down my entire body and makes me want to throw that thing away.
For the most part, I only hate sounds if they're sudden/loud/unexpected (anxiety reaction) or if they're repetitive (car alarms, dripping faucet, etc.) The only 2 sounds I actually *viscerally* react to are mic feedback and metal scraping porcelain.
Same. Most of these sounds didn't bother me, but being startled by a sound (causing my adrenaline to spike) or a repeating environmental sound that causes me to not be able to concentrate or focus can ruin my entire day. It can even be subconscious. I've had days of what felt like depression from droning sounds (loud hvac unit) that I didn't realize were there until after they were shut off. The sudden absence of the sound can be such a relief that I can feel my anxiety dissolve away. An interesting thing to me, though, is that I'm a drummer, so I'm used to being around certain sudden loud and droning sounds a fair amount. Like they said in the video, some of it may have to do with context and perceived cause or consequences of the sound. Is something wrong? Do I need to fix something? Is someone hurt?
@@neekondrums Control: do you control when and how it happens, or at least is there a "logic" to it, vs, is it being inflicted upon you. Definitely how I relate to loud, sudden, intrusive, or repetitive sounds.
The repetitive part reminds me of two songs I heard in public and instantly hated. One is Lovely Day by Bill Withers. At the end he says “daaaaaaay” for 18 seconds long over and over again. The other was one that was playing last night. I Shazammed it so I would know what it was: All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem. It just plays one guitar note over and over again. Actually I’m not sure if that’s really what it was or if the app thought it was because they both have one repeating not. I’m listening to it now and it’s a piano.
Same here! I can’t cook with metal utensils because my soul cringes out of my body when they scrape the metal pots/pans/bowls. Metal scraping against teeth is also very triggering for me, except for when I’m at the dentist for some reason.
Thank you for making this video. I have told many people about this condition but nobody believes that this could actually exist. All of my Misophonia is sounds. My mother passed this to me and all of my siblings, some have severe and some mild.
I have misophonia! Thank you for spreading awareness. I even learned more! Most of my triggers developed in school because it was an incredibly anxious place for me. Sounds like repeated tapping(pencils, feet, fingers), chewing, saliva sounds, mouth and tongue clicking, whistling, and sometimes humming or soft singing. I start to get angry and panicked when I hear them. All I want to do is scream when it happens and it really really sucks. My mom also has it too
i’m a high school senior, and while i’m decently sure i don’t have misophonia, i heavily suspect i have autism. the sound of my classmates’ laughter and chatter (especially for girls) makes me want to scream and incites violent intrusive thoughts. it has been socially debilitating for the past few years, making it _literally_ physically painful due to the headaches and pain stims i do to keep myself under control. since realizing this problem isn’t just a personal failing, i’ve made sure to keep noise-canceling headphones nearby at school so i can block out the triggering noise. it’s made this school year much easier so far. take care of yourselves.
this can probably have multiple reasons. When it comes to fight or flight, I ususally either choose flight or freeze (which is also an option). I know I don't have autism (I've been extensively tested as a kid due to reasons I won't go into), but lots of people talking at the same time triggers my flight response, where for example on a birthday party I have to go to another room to calm down and relax for a moment in quiet before I can join in again. It's the overstimulation for me, and I just get overwhelmed with the amount of noise I hear. I'm glad to hear you found a solution for it, I never thought about that when I was in school... Classmates talking definitely overstimulated me and made it hard for me to concentrate. I'm sorry it physically hurt you, I never experienced that so I can't relate with that.
@@kenenigans thank you for sharing your experience! it’s definitely been helpful to have access to research and information on autism and its coping mechanisms, since i figure that even if i don’t have it, my experiences are still real and the sound of chatter is simply bad for me. the way i see it, there’s nothing wrong with taking inspiration from autism coping mechanisms for autism-like experiences, so i did just that! if it turns out i don’t have autism, that’s fine, my awareness of it still helped me get through a time when noise was overwhelming and painful. that’s why research is so important! adhd coping mechanisms can also help people who don’t have it, even if it isn’t targeted to them. i’m glad to live in a time when so much information is readily available so people can find answers and solutions to the problems it feels like only they have.
@@glasses6524 that's very true... a lot of issues overlap in certain diagnoses, and the solutions to those issues are often the same or similar. I also feel knowing I'm not the only one with these issues (or other ones for that matter) makes it easier to cope with them and not feeling alone and "weird" for having them, so thank you for your initial comment as well 😊
Now I understand why I had headphones on pretty much all the time at lunch and in between classes at high school. I didn’t know back then that I’m neurodivergent, and didn’t really think about that until now
I have misophonia but I too also think I may have autism because people chewing, typing, tapping or other things annoy me but loud noises and people talking loudly make me extremely upset and uncomfortable.
I had to give up at 1:30 I’m on my morning commute to class and if I try to continue watching, it will ruin my whole day and I’ll only calm down once I’m home and in bed.
@@TheOddInfluencer He didn't at the very beginning, plus I just clicked on it and there are no chapters or bookmarks to where I can skip ahead. No thanks. There's a billion other things I could be doing with my life.
Babbling makes me crazy, being in a group where everyone is talking makes me nuts. I've dropped packages in the middle of stores and run out if that happens. Also, children shrieking - that's like a knife into my brain. I actually do kind of a whiplash movement with my body it affects me so much.
Thank you for making a video. I have Misophonia, but right now accidently under the control because of my anti-anxiety medicament. Still slight reactions to sounds could happen. Almost for all my life I didn't know that I have misophonia, and maybe about 5 years ago did research on my own why I have advert reaction to certain sounds and found out about Misophonia. This disorder not widely addressed, and there is no proven medical treatment for that, but as you mentioned, it makes life harder and affecting relationship at work and home. Even before I knew that I have a condition, I have to ask my relatives to eat separately from me, because even they don't make loud sound of chewing, even slightest sound of it would make me go nuts. Heavy breathing and spitting also affecting my sensibility, if occasionally will hear such sounds in public places. But what interesting, when animals are making loud chewing sound, I don't have that crazy reaction, as if I hear it from people. So uncomfortable and confusing condition.
lol, the bit starting around 8:40 reminded me that I hate the sound of a heartbeat. Like for as long as I can remember, it just gave me the willies, makes me uncomfortable in my own skin. It's one of the reasons I sometimes have trouble meditating, because I start to hear/feel my own heartbeat and then I want to be doing ANYTHING else.
lol I have only known one other person with this "problem".. she cannot and will not take her pulse no matter what, I think I remember her saying she hates working out hard too because she can feel her pulse.
I like to hold my breath until I can feel every heartbeat and consciously focus on each of those beats, carefully and willfully slowing them down. I try and count a little bit past each beat, aiming for a count that's just a bit longer each time. When I'm otherwise in a good state, I can bring my heartbeat down to probably 40 bpm, tho I've never measured it, while holding my breath for over 2min. That's not a normal day, tho, lol.
I actually love asmr, that is SOME asmr. I have carefully curated a following of “safe” channels that I know aren’t triggering. Absolutely NO chewing/smacking, and it has to be a “dry” whisper. Mouth sounds send me into unholy rage.
I wonder if this explains how I react to those ubiquitous digital alarm clocks from the 80s/90s. I swear that hearing that sound makes my blood pressure spike and puts me on edge for hours. The greatest thing ever was when I could start using my phone as an alarm with a gentle tinkling chime.
The worst part about misophonia is that it’s so instinctual. I know it’s so irrational but I’m sent into a boiling rage over the most mundane everyday sounds.
This is the first time I've seen anything about Misophonia awareness without actively seeking out and it makes me really happy that we're finally getting representation. I myself have debilitating Misophonia that's ruining my life at the moment. I'd say about 80% of the sounds that trigger me the most are body sounds like sniffling, lip smacking, slurping, whispering etc... Even just the sound of someone breathing is enough to provoke a panic attack. Also sounds caused by people, especially family members (which according to my limited research seems to be pretty common) and sharp and wet noises in general are very often triggering. When my mom is eating in the kitchen, and I can only faintly hear her silverware clanking (not scraping) against the plate, I want to jump out the window. A common misconception is that Misophonia only reacts to sounds. Some visual stimuli provokes the same reaction as auditory, such as seeing someone chew gum, even though I can't hear it. The absolute worst thing about Misophonia (besides being stressed 24/7 because of constant more or less triggering noises, and being unable to do a lot of stuff I really want to do) is that my education is really limited. I managed to find a good high school that has understanding staff and can do more accommodations than usual, and thanks to them I can just barely get through the school day, but when I get home, I'm completely drained of energy and I can't even bring myself to do the things I usually find fun like playing the piano or videogames. I don't know if I'll be able to go to college or study at a university, which sucks since I have high ambitions. I can't learn by watching TH-cam tutorials either as they're often recorded with poor audio quality, lip smacking, sniffling, and lots of mouse clicks. The only medium that (somewhat) consistently works is reading written instructions, which is also made difficult by my ADHD. Misophonia ruins everything. My life is in shambles right now and I'm trying to find ways to cope, but it's not very easy. Wearing noise cancelling headphones everywhere that isn't my home helps a little. They effectively block out noises at the cost of awareness of what is happening around me, so they don't help much during lessons in school. Some TH-cam videos can be fixed by running them through noise cancelling software, but this only works sometimes. The best way to cope is simply to not go anywhere or do anything, which is what I have to resort to when it gets too overwhelming. If I wasn't blessed to have understanding and supporting family and friends, I would have taken my own life. If anyone's got questions, ask away! I'm really passionate about Misophonia awareness, so don't hesitate
You need the help of a professional who understands misophonia. Are you under health insurance? Calling them or looking on their website may give you a starting place to look for therapists... If you have no insurance, reach out to your school guidance counselor and see if there are resources available to you... Also, you may have seen ads for 'Better Help', a therapy platform that is by phone or text. Even if you can't afford them or don't have insurance, perhaps they can put you in touch with some options.... and lastly, you can Google for help with misophonia, or coping skills for it... Good luck! I hope your horizon broadens!
I'm sorry you have to go through that. I absolutely despise silverware scraping a plate, nails on a chalkboard, metal against concrete or metal, and Styrofoam
I suffer from this. I spent about four otherwise not so bad years of my life living under someone (after my first upstairs neighbor moved) that stomped around all night. When I finally found a place enough to work that I could afford and moved (that was much quieter) I would still panic when I heard a car door slam or similar because my whole body was anticipating the hours of stomping to begin again. I'm also really sensitive to bounding ball sounds, leaf blowers, styrofoam, clocks ticking, heaving breathing, chalkboards, and that sound of silverware. I really wish more people would realize this is a real disorder and not just me trying to be over sensitive or a Karen or whatever.
Dude! Same! The upstairs neighbor slammed his cabinets and his pipes made hella loud grinding noises...and he walked loud 😡 I would get my broom and bang on the ceiling, and call management. My husband didn't support me 😞 he got upset with me
I have had Misophonia for over a decade. The sound of chewing, scraping and Styrofoam all induce a skin-crawling and irritable sensation that overwhelms my brain
I've been diagnosed with misophonia, and my primary trigger is dog barks and howls. As one might expect, it's hell on earth. People could literally not care any less about their dogs' barking anyway, and they will fight you for the right to have their howling demon yammer all night. And no one takes misophonia seriously but doctors. So even politely asking them to maybe not let their dog hang out in the yard alone and bark for two hours after 11 at night not only gets them angry and offended, but no one but a doctor or another misophonia sufferer will EVER be on your side about it either. And if that fellow misophonia sufferer is a dog lover then you're on your own. The symptoms I get is instant high heartrate and higher blood pressure causing a headache, complete body tension and an inability to concentrate on anything but wanting the sound to stop, and rage. Sleep is not even a possibility after I wake up like that unless I use a sedative.
Hey, what specialty diagnoses this? Is it psychiatry? Also, does the diagnosis... do any good? I 100% have misophonia, but don't know what to do about it. 😕 Also... barking is an awful trigger to have. But regardless of misophonia, your neighbors shouldn't be leaving a dog outside barking after eleven. Like, that's just basic "being a neighbor" is not causing a disturbance at night. They have no right to be offended by you asking them not to do that. Do you have an HOA or landlord you could talk to?
@@safaiaryu12 I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist based on my physical responses to certain sounds and their effect on my health, re: sleep and stress levels. I was prescribed a sedative to use to deal with this as needed. I imagine a psychologist could probably suspect misophonia, but they are not supposed to diagnose things that might need medication to address. Thankfully, I don't have an HOA (they are honestly worse than a thousand barking dogs, at least the dogs aren't on a power trip), but the offense thing is just people being people. Nobody EVER wants to think that anything of theirs, whether it's pets, kids, their own habits or temper, or anything, is doing something anyone could rightfully criticize, and a lot of people will push back because they simply don't want to think they are in the wrong. I won't say that dog owners are particularly like this, because I do know some dog owners who would be mortified if they knew their dog was hurting their neighbor's health, but in my own personal experience my dog-owning neighbors have been absolutely uninterested in doing anything about their barking dogs and quick to take offense at any requests to do so. No matter how politely or diplomatically I approach it, I'm either ignored or told off, so I'm now discouraged from trying to talk things out with people and more likely to call the police or animal control if someone's being unreasonable with it. Like you said, nobody wants to hear a dog barking for two hours at night! The curse of misophonia is that it wrecks me for the entire afternoon if the neighbor's dog barks *normally* for a couple of minutes at something. But. The source of that misophonia is very likely a conditioned reaction to the uncaring ones letting their dogs interrupt sleep and cause stress for weeks on end.
@@Minyassa That all makes sense. And I agree, HOAs are awful entities but this was a moment where I was hopeful they could be useful for once. 🙄 But you're probably way better off without one. And yeah, you're also right about people taking offense. I guess that drives me nuts because I personally am loath to bother other people, so if someone told me I was bothering them, I'd do anything I could to fix it. So for someone to react like you're in the wrong for asking them to be decent human beings... oh boy, that irritates me. Sorry you're going through that. I might talk to my psychiatrist about this at some point, but I just switched to a new one this year, so I'm gonna feel weird bringing that up right away, lol. Thank you for your response.
People around me would always call my weird reactions to particular noise as crazy behavior, so glad to hear that I'm not alone in the way I feel, some of the worst noise is like particular volume of music, paper and nails, teeth and fork, and so many more😅
2 part comment: 1 fun fact. Many movie theaters have 2 dedicated speakers for infra and ultrasound. Sounds we can't hear. Horror movies tend to use the infrasound to cause the audience to physically feel paranoid along with the protagonist while action movies will use ultrasound to make explosions feel like explosions. Part 2: My parents ' corrected' my aversion to some sounds by exposure therapy. A major trigger for me was my father's air compressor. My mother locked me in the garage several times while it was going off to ' fix' me. I mean, it worked, I tolerate it now but still. I get a similar reaction to any power tool noise or loud industrial noises but I can keep my reaction in check, especially since getting on anxiety medication. I will get physically fatigued with prolonged exposure though... Iv been told that my reactions are common for Autistic people and I do have ADHD so I very well could be on the spectrum.
You could be on the spectrum, but alos, sensory sensitivities are very very common with ADHD too, it's just not talked about as much for some reason. And what your parents did sounds awful! Graded exposure therapy can be helpful for all kinds of things, but locking you in a room with the thing you hate is NOT graded exposure therapy! Egads!
Loss of agency, the ability to control my environment, is a BIG thing for me. I would have called CPS on my parents if they had done such a thing. Fortunately for me, they had sensory issues as well, and they got it.
That's called censorship or just lazy people who can't botter with "foley" since the 60's. It's the same reason every single person getting shot in an action movie moans the same way. Or women screaming when they see something dead or scary, like people would actually scream in those situations lol
This! I hate this in tv and movies. It's like baby coughs, oops I spit up. No! Vomiting is wretching and heaving (noisy!). When there's a "good" vomit scene it surprises me more so!
That is by design, actual vomiting sounds can cause others to feel nausea as well. There’s a reason why so many people put their guts out in the cinema when The Exorcist was released 😂
@K40L4 It's neither censorship nor lazy foley work, it's just that the vast majority of people don't want to hear actuall vomiting noises in entertainment. Entertainment is supposed to be enjoyable, and It's disrespectful to say that foley artists are lazy when they are just doing their job well by not compromising the audience's enjoyment in the name of "realism". .
There are a number of sounds that make me cringe (styrofoam, lip smacking, etc), but only snoring gives me the anger reaction! And also leaf blowers. Snoring and leaf blowers = instant rage.
@@tb6303Then you do not have misphonia. The difference between people who make light jokes and not taking annoying sounds seriously (not saying yall are wrong or bad) and misphonia sufferers is the sheer level of suffering. To you, annoying sounds are annoying. To us, it is hell on earth. In those moments, most of us would prefer a gunshot to the head than to endure the sound. It is that type of pain. It is not annoyance. It is agony. Raw, bleeding, agony, like a knife to the brain. To us this is nothing to joke about.
The sounds of clocks ticking or people typing on their phones (the clacking sound that comes from it) is extremely distressing to me. My dad doesn’t have his phone on silent mode so his phone makes those keyboard clacking sounds and every single time I’m near him while he’s texting someone on his phone, it just makes me wanna grab his phone and throw it across the room. I am so glad I’m not the only one who has these kinds of sensory issues about certain noises.
I'm not a native english speaker, and the word "moist" doesn't effect me at all. More interesting, in 0:39 I didn't like the sound, but it wasn't so bad for me. I didn't know the word "styrofoam" and I didn't identify what it is from the sound. When I finished watching the video I checked it, and when I saw what it is, I got the chills.
@@illusory87yeah I do not think that qualifies as a misophonic reaction. It’s just a word that’s associated with some gross uses. When I hear styrofoam squeaking, I I want to leave the room. Leave the house. Leave my skin. It is physically uncomfortable. It’s not just annoying or off putting, it’s triggering my fight or flight response. It makes these almost painful shivers run down by spine and shoulders. People don’t have that kind of physical reaction to the word “moist”.
I also have never been affected by the word "moist". I remember way back kids talking about it in middle school, and I pretended to be grossed out to fit in, but honestly it's a word I use pretty often at work talking to customers when describing different fish entrees.
Moist jokingly seems to remind, at least men, of a moist va-jay-jay. Essentially a reminder of a private part. So just hearing it gives off a strange feeling about it, which is probably why you can cringe hearing it and you don't know why.
@Epic_C Idl it because of the way it literally sounds. Moyeest. *SHUDDERS* Don't like another word, too, but I can't even type it. Um...dirt but squ instead of d. HORK...even that gets me...nope. nopenopenope. Yeah ok I'm done. I CANNOT.
Try wearing headphones and touching Styrofoam. If you happen to be sensitive specifically to the high-pitched frequencies of Styrofoam (like I am) a pair of headphones may be able to filter out those sounds. No need for fancy noise canceling, just having something solid over your ears may help. It's worth a try.
SLURPING. I can't stand it. It makes my stomach squize, then my pulse icreases and I just can't think of nothing else other than this noise. And that I want to stop it no matter what. Tell sb to stop doing it, even raise my voice, and if they keep slurping - I cover my ears, then leave the room. I would love to travel to Japan but the slurping makes me genuinely ultra anxious... There are many other sounds I hate (typical ones), but slurping is Top 1.
I wonder how many of these stem from some trauma they encountered as a child. Not all of them of course, but some of them. Especially when she talks about having a fight or flight reaction or a panic attack. It just seems like PTSD.
CRT TV whine used to drive me insane. Flat screens were such a relief. Oddly my retro gaming nostalgia, possibly combined with tinnitus from not wearing earplugs at music events, make CRTs more appealing & less annoying... we also lose audible range as we age so there's that.
You can hear that too? When I was a kid, I could walk by someone's house and be able to tell their TV was on. I could hear that "whine" (for lack of a better word).
Always hated that as a kid. Sometimes to the point of asking people to turn off their T.V. because the whine was so horrendously loud. Adults couldn't hear it, but they seemed to understand that it was, in fact, a real thing. I feel sorry for our pets who surely suffer listening to all sorts of obnoxious high-pitched whines that we have no idea are even there.
The closer I am to a person (in terms of relationship) the angrier I get to the sound of their chewing. No clue why lol. Only times I’d really feel an affect from a strangers chewing is in an environment that’s meant to quiet (studying in a library, quiet scenes during a movie, etc)
"Dank" has always been a positive word in my experience, since most people don't use the word the way they used to. Nails on a chalkboard is the one that gets me. The sound, and sometimes even just imagining the sound, can actually make me shiver.
Nails on a chalkboard and a couple other sounds are so intolerable to me I shuver, I feel nauseous, I have to cover my ears and run away.....its seriously extreme. but everything else people here talk about like chewing, aluminum foil are fine....
I'm not personally bothered by any particular sound on it's own, including the ones in this video (though it sounds pretty rough for those who are). That being said, I'm on the autistic spectrum and it's when noises are particularly loud (Good hearing is not a superpower, let me assure you) or when there's a lot of sounds overlapping at once. I've had shutdowns even as an adult from the sound of heavy traffic and two conversations going on, there was a lawnmower going, bird calls, the wind blowing through leaves, and my brain was trying to process ALL of it at once.
If it makes you feel any better, non-autistic people can also have issues with too much going on all at the same time. I can't stand crowds where there's a bunch of people trying to talk over each other. The anxiety hits and I have to get away.
I'm autistic as well but the only sound I found so far that "triggers" me is the sound of silverware like a fork scraping on a bare metal pan... the screech from that immediately gives me goosebumps & makes me cringe Some other sounds annoy me but I think that's pretty much on par with other people
@@Sithhy Do you have sensory issues with any other senses? I do, not strongly, but with pretty much any of them. Even smells can occasionally make me sick. I considered giving an example, but even my ASD brain knows that is TMI.
@@MelissaThompson432 Not from what I could tell. No surface textures bother me, no material properties like slimey, squishy etc. bother me, loud sounds are somewhat annoying depending on the sound type but I think that goes pretty much for almost everyone else, smells don't really bother me more than a typical person, no food textures like jelly put me off nor stuff like juice with pulp; I used to dislike tomatoes for many years but that was pretty much due to their taste, not the way they felt in my mouth. Altough I gotta say, I'm really touchy about having things put in/near my nose, eyes or ears, primarily during a medical examination as I suddenly will start thinking of the worst scenarios lol
Tranks to captions for letting me access the information without the torture. Two triggers I have that I haven't seen mentioned here : the sound of saliva clicking in the mouth of someone talking, and computer keyboards.
I find the keyboard sounds actually soothing, but feel physically ill with metal scrapping on things or wet things being manipulated (my personal hell is find a cake recipe that looks tasty and is an ASMR channel)
The sound of chalk squeaking on a board or cutlery grating on a plate probably gets the most visceral reaction out of me, but I think thats just cause the frequency hurts my ears though.
@12:23 - Joe, you might want to do some research. Not only is this a myth, but several Japanese YT creators I've watched have commented specifically on how there is no such tradition. If anything, you'd likely be seen as uncouth or undisciplined.
Polystyrene sqeaking makes me feel like my teeth are peeling and my kneecaps are turning to dust. I can't explain it, but it makes me so sick to my stomach.
I have a couple of sensory overwhelm issues due to ASD and among them is that I find sounds to be “too loud” at noticeably lower volume than most seem to, though it can vary in severity day to day. So mine may be atypical, but here goes. Babies crying is not necessarily painful (unless very loud or close) but is a strong anxiety inducer _at any distance._ Nails on chalkboard, scraping utensils, and furniture squealing loudly as it is slid across a hard floor can be extremely unpleasant or painful if loud enough. But most of the rest are generally milder irritants if at all. Almost any repetitive noise can be quite annoying to me though. But the sound of a word, like “moist,” has never bothered me, interestingly enough.
A lot of these sounds are actually extremely enjoyable for me. Like, styrofome, breaks on a train, microphone feedback, mosquitoes. Anything really high pitched makes me feel really good. I actively seek out these kinds of sounds, record them, and make them into loops to listen to on repeat. It's like the best feeling ever. Is my brain ok?
oddly enough, you're not alone, the only things i can't stand are white/colored noises (sucks to be you if you're in an air conditioned room with the white noise-like humming lmao) and probably vomit noises. ASMR also pisses me off
I enjoy the sound of styrofoam too, but I don't go out of my way to hear it. I will usually rub two pieces together for a bit if I'm unpackaging something
I get this same stimuli from tape, the sound of it and feel of it on my hands/fingers brings a huge sense of joy and pleasure, particularly clear box tape
I dislike how misunderstood Misophonia is, I’ve told my friends several times to chew with their mouths closed because I don’t want to just tell them to stop eating, but they just don’t listen and it’s made me snap several times and my dad just yells at me when I simply look at him while he’s chewing I wish I didn’t have it honestly :,]
Pair misophonia with ears that are so acute that you can hear dog collars, and life gets miserable. I'm always told to just suck it up and deal. People have no idea what it's like to have pain shoved in your ears all the time. Oh, I'm a crab? Try being quiet for, heck, just five little minutes!
as someone with a sister who has misophonia, i have no idea why some people are so intolerant. i know how it feels because when she gets mad because of it i get really concerned for her and scared and i just want people to be less ignorant about it so that neither of us have to feel that turmoil. i just can't stand seeing her get blatantly hurt and disrespected.
@@sweeterstuff She might try Loops. They've been a miracle to me at work. They don't block out everything, but they attenuate it enough to reduce the noise and rage it provokes.
Unfortunately, if you can be "othered" in any way, groups will often treat you less favourably because of it, rather than have compassion for your struggles. Shameful behaviour in my opinion. As a species, we need to have more patience and understanding with each other.
Babies crying. This was heartbreaking and so relieving to learn I have an extremely severe reaction to babies crying. And I know why now!! Ever since I was a kid I struggled with the sound of crying babies. I couldn’t even baby sit but that was considered the “norm” for most teenage girls to do so as a first job kinda thing. But I would come home in extreme panic attacks in fear of THINKING the baby could cry. As a mother of 5….i just thought I was a horrible mom because my response to my children crying was me crying with them because it was hell. My husband. Thank god. He has been my saving grace with this. This video explains so much. And it’s relived years of stress of me fearing I was a horrible mom. Thank you. 🙏🏼 I can’t stress enough. Thank you
Thanks for making this video and raising awareness about misophonia because this is a condition which is not very known and disrupt the lives and relationships of many people, including myself! It turned out I've been having it since I know myself and I never knew it was a thing. It's really bad because it affects your daily life and obviously people don't understand it, thinking that you're just weird, rude, or even crazy. Sometimes it's difficult to have a conversation with a person or do anything meaningful in the presence of these trigger sounds. Just like it was explained in the video - the sound doesn't even have to be loud but it affects you so bad and you can't make any sense of it... I got to the point of thinking I probably have some autistic condition like Asperger's (because this is one of the symptoms) but after taking a test it turned out I'm not even close. So I continued living my life, feeling that something is wrong but not sure exactly what 😅. It wasn't until this year (at the age of 32) when I learned about misophonia and it was an eye opening moment for me (and my close ones as well). Of course, I still have the problem and it won't go away, but now know I'm not crazy and it's out of my control. PS: Also you might be surprised to learn that some people with misophonia can have intolerance towards various kinds of sounds but are totally ok with the common ones like chalk on board, stirofoam on a glass, etc. I don't even have a problem with the word "moist" but this could be because I'm not an English speaker. But unfortunately I have problems with some words in my own language (Bulgarian) so I know how "moist victims" feel. 😀
I have Aspergers and never knew this was a separate thing. Common ones for me are the sound of a dog drinking, a rake on gravel, and lip smacking, but I have no problem with nails on a chalkboard or "moist" or barfing noises. This used to cause lots of issues, but now, people who know me don't question it if I suddenly cover my ears. So it's still a bit problematic sometimes...
There are some sounds and word that make me gag and make me want to throw up. There are textures that make me want to claw my skin off, and smells that make me panic. It really affects me when I'm around others because they're all really common things that actually comfort others.
My most hated sounds are the sounds of the upstairs neighbors walking around like they're outside on the cement and when they're dragging furniture around their apartment. Thanks, thumbs up, have a great day.
I've grown to dislike the sound of cicadas. This started when I moved to Japan where the subtropical summer weather leads to thousands coming out at once. But wait! You say... In anime they use cicadas as a nostalgic sound! Yeah, one is okay. But a nonstop all out assault on your ears extremely annoying.
I commented on a cicada this summer and my husband said, "Is that the bug that sounds like tinnitus?" And I'd never thought about it but that's pretty much how my tinnitus sounds so I must have described it to him (he doesn't have it).
i have this but visually. I just can't bare seeing people bite their nails for example. And this is only one of many (usually compulsions people do when stressed) things that make me physically angry for no reason at all. Am currently searching therapy for this but it can be very disruptive to my life sometimes. Worst thing is, most of these compulsions i cant bear seeing, i do myself as well
They say you’re overreacting or you are picking on that person because you hate them or whatever. You’re not alone. I’m with you. Stay well. (For me, someone closing their mouth while chewing cleanses 90% of the trigger sounds they create, excluding lip-smacking or wet food noises that happen when someone opens their mouth for another bite of food.)
Bones breaking, like in movies etc. I can't. I just can't. It makes me feel ill. I have to block off my ears, and shut my eyes tight, until it's all over. Also, the noise of the dentist's drill - even though I've never been afraid of the dentist - that sound makes me muffle my ears. If I'm the victim, then I have to wear ear-plugs or headphones to listen to music.
Fun fact: the bone-crunching sounds used in movies are often produced by crushing an empty water bottle. Its often mixed with other sounds for a greater effect, but the crinkle of an empty water bottle is a surprisingly crunchy sound.
@@myrmatta1 that is so funny, I guess celery is used also, along the same lines. I follow a boom foley artist who says a lot of broken bone sounds is celery
@@myrmatta1 It came from hearing my own arm break, when I fell off a bike. |But yes, anything like that can trigger me. Not normal crunchy, crinkle sounds, but actual real bones breaking. Movies are not real, but it's a sound I can't deal with, and avoid.
6:15 apparently that's because American emergency vehicle sirens are designed like that which damages hearing while many other countries design their emergency vehicle sirens still loud but at a lower pitch so they are a lot less damaging while still being able to hear and respond to them 🚒🚑
1:06 my friend HATES hearing the word toes and she had to say it because it was in a line in the musical the jungle book that we did that she had to say 😂
I'm autistic and have adhd so all sounds are pretty much my least favourite sounds like electricity, air conditioner and people who whistle (sorry! You can whistle if you want). I wear either Loop's (earplugs) or my noise cancelling headphones everyday since I nearly had a panic attack in at the store because all of the noises.
My daughter is in the same boat (she is on the spectrum) and she copes with it in the same way...noise cancelling earbuds. At home it doesn't bother her as much, but when she's out with friends, all of the extra social stimuli makes it a lot harder to cope with.
I don't have physical reactions to sounds so much, but touch - YES! Certain textures can make me feel like I'm about to vomit. Chalk, cheap silk, clay drying on my hands, anything rough, cheap microfiber 🤮
I have an issue with chewed gum, even in wrappers (thanks, Mom!). It reminds me of brains. I can handle gum that hasn't been chewed, but if it's been chewed... Don't even ask me to throw it away for you. I will bring the whole trash can to you to throw your gum away, but I will NOT be touching it, even through the wrapper.
Yes!!!!!! I freak out at touching things that are too smooth or have a certain grain to them: smooth cement (like the floor of the garage), cinnamon sugar donut, Ritz chips - basically textures that simulate my hands or feet being numb.
chewing, slurping, high pitched noises. anything to do with people who don't know how to chew with their mouths closed. literally triggers my flight or fight. I hate misophonia. but also I have found a way to combat it, from a person who also has it (ex friend). i use earbuds. EVERYWHERE I go, I never leave without them, playing music, not too loud, but just enough to drown them and also listen to them talk. Some of my family is good at remembering, and my best friend tries to remember to. which means so much to me. but I really cant understand how people eat with their mouths open, like are you gasping for air?
Always hated that physical vibration (it seemed to travel through my entire arm and end on the back of the head), but never noticed it made much of a sound. Also, it only works with some types of pencil, possibly because of differences in the wood. I remember as a kid choosing pencils based mostly on that.
Yes! Exactly. Also, the thought of teeth biting into a cotton shirt or just plain cotton. Makes my nerves shoot through my body. The dull pencil thing is just as bad. I thought it was just me!
Ugggghhhh, yes! There are lot of things with a similar kind of vibration that just makes me want to die. Chalky fingers on brown paper bags are another one (I was a gymnast and later an aerialist, so chalk on fingers has been a common occurance in my life).
Vocal Fry, that creaky sound you hear a lot on media, more often by women than men, sets my teeth on edge. I often have to turn off the tv because I just can’t stand it
I have the same experience... and I find my hate of vocal fry has been growing the last few years, in a way that recently i have stop certain video's or podcasts sometimes. Either it's me or there's just way more vocal fry going around... (or both, of course)
@@raymanscapeI don’t think it’s you! It seemed to start in the US and it’s now well established here in Australia (we copy all things American 😁) my granddaughter has started doing it 😬 the horror!
I searched for this comment. I'm glad i found it. I can't stand it. I get so angry hearing it. I hate the people that speak like that. I think more and more people speak that way and it makes me loose hope in humanity. I think at some point when everyone does this i need to cut all ties to people and i have to stop watching videos on the internet to stay sane. i hope this trend does not spread to everyone.
100% this, but only certain frequencies. Makes my teeth hurt. Sometimes when I'm eating, my teeth will accidentally make that same noise, and I have to physically stop eating. I either have the urge to run screaming or start crying. I have had tears in my eyes before when I've heard it. Grinding my teeth helps, otherwise I will not eat for a whole day.
I have misophonia. During my school years one of my friends would always, always, get a bag of the crunchiest potato chips known to man and eat them at the end of lunch. Because of this I spent a lot of time I could have had with friends, and was instead hiding in one of the printing rooms. I tried at some point to articulate my condition to my friends, but I don't think they ever really understood it. As that one friend never did stop eating potato chips even upon noticing my abrupt absences every time he did. On top of this, at restaurants and places with background I can generally not be affected by the sounds because there is a good amount of background noise and distractions. But I have another friend that eats particularly loudly, and I will avoid going out on excursions with them if I know we are going to dinner or lunch. Which is sad because they are a really nice guy through and through, and it would be wrong of me to say "don't eat for the entirety of the day because I'm here." But I can't do it, and I mean that. Which is what people may not realize. Every time my mom would return from work I would get up and leave. She thought I was avoiding her because I didn't like her, when in reality it was because she always ate a snack after coming home. I didn't want to insult her for doing that, so I would just leave. When I was little my dad thought that exposing me to the sounds of eating would make me become used to it because he was really afraid I wouldn't build up any relationships in the future because of it. It truly felt like torture, and eventually he relented. And once again, you may be thinking that my family knew I had this, and yet would consistently still chew around me. It is because they forget, they forgot every day almost. I understood it with friends, but it made me feel worse that my family seemed unable to properly understand my condition. And to be fair to myself, I feel I wasn't asking for much. Just that no one started eating potato chips around me. But this truly has affected my whole life. My friend group, everyone in it are people that don't usually chew gum. I cannot befriend some one that consistently chews gum. Which is unfortunate. Really, it isn't the worst thing that could ever happen to me, but I would ask that if you have a friend that has told you that they have misophonia, that you please, please do not chew gum around them or eat potato chips around them. Save it for later, they will love you for that. And if you have a friend or family member and they appear to have it (they leave during dinner or become more snappy when you chew gum), it's okay to ask. It's just little things. And please, please don't make fun of them or try to say things like "you're not annoyed at your own chewing, so what's wrong with mine?" Because it doesn't work like that. I wish I knew why too. My case may be particularly bad, because if I see someone opening and closing their mouth like they are chewing gum, even if it is through a window so I cannot hear it, I still feel the same distress and agitation as if I can hear it. I don't know many other people with this, so I don't know if other people suffer from that. If you are particularly empathetic maybe don't chew gum in tightly packed public transport, as chances are you may be causing suffering to someone.
Noise cancelling head phones. You be around your friends. Listen to three songs while they snack. Continue as normal. Your other choices are: avoid the world. constantly remind everyone at all times. Put on headphones like anyone else with acoustic issues Edit* wrote fast since I'm in a hurry but I wanted to add: I assume you've tried this. But if it's something that is affecting your life, it might be worth trying again. They have some very fancy headphones these day. I think mine are Tozo they have 3 settings: Noise Cancelling which works incredibly well, pass through and NC off for the normal muffling.
@@GrifoStelle Intriguing point. I do specify that I do not seek at all to stop people from enjoying their potato chips, it's just in the case of someone I've known for over a decade still being completely ignorant of it that gets to me. That is a deeper emotional component though. But honestly avoiding people is my best option. Yes I can use headphones, but that's the same thing as not being there for me. If it works for other people that is great! But not for me. I feel like I am just ignoring them purposely. I think taking the burden upon myself and leaving and coming back when they are done is just the easiest and least obtrusive action. And as I said even seeing people eat chips or chew gum elicit the same reaction out of me.
as someone who has a sister with misophonia, i know how it feels for her to constantly have to deal with things like these. i know how intolerant some people can be towards it and those people are just so annoying, even though i'm not the one experiencing the symptoms. if she gets mad about it around me, then i get scared and just want to try to help.
@@justnoah2073 Loops. OMG, loops. I'm not a shill, I swear--I have it almost as bad ad you, and those things knock out those sounds, but not people's voices.
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I learned misophonia from Film Theory. Matpats Wife has it
The amount of painfully generic stock clips in this video has given me misostockblockia.
this video needs to be expanded with artificial sound effects, like I'm curious how can we have universally recognized triumphant or horror sound tracks and the likes considering how recent the invention of sound effects.
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for me styrofoam send chill down my skin
The sound I most deeply hate is the one mosquitos make when flying next to my ear.
Drives me crazy
Skip the "Fly" episode in Breaking Bad in that case.
Nope. The worst sound is when you are trying to sleep while a mosquito is buzzing around…and then the sound stops.
I personally find the mosquito buzzing _inside_ my ear more unsettling.
@@lajya01 You are clearly a headphone user and the sound doesn't bother anyone when you are aware of it. Also, thank you for showing me another reason pirated episodes are better. My pirated breaking bad episode had the noise as an ambient sound and never turned into something annoying.
metal scraping on metal is hell it's so high and ear splitting and gives me the goosebumps everytime
Yes! Me, too!!! I have to cover my ears sometimes
Me too. Too much like a baby screaching for me.
I've always suffered with the sound of metal. The worse for me is a scissors or a stylus on the pencil's graphite. Just the memory of it gives me the creeps.
@HorioaloveRon Ooo, or how about a pencil being sharpened? That was onw of the worst for me. Only one kind of pencil bothered me. It was the older kind that was made out of real wood. That kind squeaked when it was sharpened. That always drovw me nuts.
Same, but what dose this mean
Being in a quiet room and hearing your coworker sipping or chewing loudly is rage inducing
Now replace it with a pet drinking and chewing and suddenly…so endearing.
Not really
@@cottardTV yes really
niko
omg is that niko oneshot?
also, yes. yes it is.
Oh, thank you. I feel so much better knowing I'm not alone. I have autism and my ears are especially sensitive to sounds. Any really high-pitched noises like mic feedback or the whistling from pronouncing words with the s sound physically hurt my head.
yes!! I feel so seen, I absolutely hate that sound that “s” makes sometimes
yes! i am so glad i am not the only one! it is so much worse on a phone call!
What about the "boom" "boom" that comes out of one of those low rider cars, that drive by. Physically makes me sick to my stomach, and I hate the sounds so much! Another one, is when I hear someone play a musical instrument very loud, and it makes my ears thud. Kind of like when you look at speakers, that move forward, and backwards.
Fetal position covering ears is real
My partner suffers from Misophonia, the horror he goes through when he hears "mouth sounds" is hugely distressing to witness. Luckily I am a quiet eater but we have to be wary when going out to dinner with people we don't know. We recently purchased some earplugs meant to lessen Misophonia's impact and were surprised that they work. Luckily, it is only mouth sounds that affect him.
Thank you for being supportive and not dismissing his condition as overreactions. Thank you.
You’re a keeper!
Someone make sure this guy never hears asmr
Which earplugs!!
Loop earplugs?
I've dealt with misophonia for decades, but only during the last five or so years has it been taken more seriously, both online and with professionals I've seen. I actually ended up going on anti-anxiety medication for it, and it has helped me deal with it a lot better over the years.
Unlike what seems like most people with misophonia, I don't really have chewing or eating sounds as a trigger, but instead the worst for me are base sounds. A neighbor having a party, with the base music traveling through the walls, will set me off on the most horrible tangent of anger, then self-hatred for knowing that my anger is irrational, then panic that I can't control what I'm feeling - all accompanied by the most horrible sweating and heart racing. I will leave my home in the middle of the night, just basically trying to run away and exercise away the fury and terror out of my head.
Another sound that gives the same reaction is snoring. Or, maybe more precisely, even faint sounds of breathing - because then my brain will automatically start expecting snoring soon, and spiral into an episode right at the time where I need to actually sleep and relax. It is wildly inconvenient when trying to live a normal life with a partner.
omg same with the snoring, and everyone in my family snores so loudly!! Sometimes I just try to sleep with noise-cancelling headphones, but those also mess with my breathing I think because I subconsciously regulate it by hearing how clear each breath is. Plus as a swimmer, the water-like silence kinda makes me feel underwater & have an urge to hold/lessen my breath.
That sounds (literally) really horrible. I experience moderate to severe trypophobia. Luckily I can just look away. But part of what's disturbing is that it's _holes._ Pictures of holes. How is it that I can react so strongly to something so silly? But I can't control it, I can't choose to not react. But, as mentioned, I _can_ look away. We can't close our ears. I hope your meds continue to work and improve your situation.
Oh heck, I have this with bass/ low frequency sounds too! Car engines are some of the worst, especially the deeper "rumble" from diesel engines and the bigger engines in trucks, vans, buses, lorries, etc. High-pitched sounds like cutlery and vehicles brakes/ braking do it as well. THE HUM. Had to MOVE to a different city🤯
I relate so wholeheartedly to your pain with bases and snoring. I had to call the cops on a neighbor for his music because the bass was making me go insane, crying, angry, keeping me up at night too. I asked politely so many times for him to stop.
But i also have other big triggers like chip bags crinkling and being opened, cutlery scraping on plates, high pitched electrical sounds coming from televisions, fans, air conditioners, fridges, etc…
Mine are snoring, breathing, some laughter types, typing in keyboard (worse with nails), chewing (crunching, slurping, swallowing), finger cracking...
Neighbors dragging chairs drives me nuts. As a non-native English speaker, "moist" does nothing to me.
I’m a native English speaker, and I have no clue why people hate the word moist. It’s just a word
@@CoconutMigrationCommittee You don't know because you didn't even watch the video which explains it very well.
@@dangerfly yes I commented before I finished the video. So what. I finished the video. Even still, I don’t understand it. Moist doesn’t evoke any of those gross sensations when I heard the word. It is just a word
@@CoconutMigrationCommittee It's just a word to YOU. There are other people out there besides you. A drawing of a roach is also a drawing so why would it gross anyone out? Why do you think you're the main character?
@@dangerfly so all of a sudden commenting an opinion makes me the main character? The world is much different than I thought. Why do you feel the need to attack everything? Are you the enemy? Grow up and have fun in my block box
I haven't seen anyone talk about this, but the sound of a marker when being pressed a little bit harder on the paper when writing. It gives me chills everytime, I hate it.
Or crayons that have that spot that doesn't color right.
How often do you have to hear markers on paper?
@@PieRatKings Pretty often since I have an 8 y/o sibling
Reading this gave me chills
It ruins the maker too, which also makes me mad.
Hey my brain problem! I would like to say, misophonia feels very different than just “bad sounds.” I don’t like the sound of nails on a chalkboard either, but it does not trigger my misophonia. Misophonia dosent just give me that “bad” feeling like nails on a chalkboard or retching, but causes strong emotional responses like anger and crying, makes me feel helpless. Also, listening to it through a phone is not too bad, I think it’s because I know I can pause it or stop it whenever I want. The context thing is huge!
Agreed. I can tolerate children crying/screeching on a phone but only if it happens to be for a brief period of time. It’s a different story when I’m out in public.
100%
for real. THE ANGER
i don't think i have misophonia? but things like certain iphone alarms/loud alarms in general and school bells ringing make me sort of freeze up and stress me out. that might just be a neurodivergent thing though
@@AstralTheNightwing I mean, loud stuff also freezes me, but this feels different to misophonia. For misophonia, the loudness of the sound does not matter at all, as long as I am able to hear it, it will be upsetting, my brain will even strain to hear the bad sound if it is very quiet (for some reason!). I feel getting upset at a wake up alarm or something stressful is not necessarily misophonia as this is associated with a negative emotion, misophonia for me is tied to normally neutral sounds. Like, my morning alarm bothers me because it is associated with the negative emotion of having to get out of my comfy bed, but it does not trigger my misophonia at all. Hope this helps :)
Thank you so much for spreading awareness. I myself suffer pretty severely from misophonia towards certain lip smacking, sniffling and chewing bubblegum with an open mouth. I went through the exact same emotions as the Dr Gregory did, but also having people judge me for my intolerance and my little brother abusing it to annoy me when there really wasn't anything I could do. I was just supposed to suck it up. Recently I've gone to therapy about it and learned ways to cope. Things are going better but I'm far from comfortable around those sounds. I hope everybody who needs it gets access to help like I did.
I also have suffered pretty severely from it. Loud noises, loud chewing and typing along with so many other things make me extremely uncomfortable and give me bad anxiety. When my brother would chew loudly I would yell at him and my parents told me to suck it up too. In the mornings the last thing I wanted to hear was my brother's extremely loud and high pitched prepubecent voice. At school I can't get work done or concentrate because the of the typing or people talking loudly. It got so bad that I got noise canceling ear buds for school. I've never been to a therapist since those are hard to find but I need one.
this has been the MOST RELATABLE TH-cam COMMENT SECTION EVER
I’ve used OCD meds for a year and it’s put a soft damper over my disgust for lip-smacking. The price is more unstable emotions.
OH MY GOD MY SIBLINGS ALSO USE CHEWING TO TORTURE ME WHEN THEY'RE MAD AND THEY SPECIFICALLY CHOOSE TIMES WHEN MY HEADPHONES ARE DEAD / BROKEN OR WHEN I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO SOMETHING TO DROWN IT OUT IT MAKES ME SOOOO MAD
@ im so sorry…. please tell them or your parents about your condition.
they know about it and do it anyway
Another interesting thing is that even the ideas of these sounds can make me feel sick and they often reverberate around in my head
Me too
that happened sometimes for me with lip smacking and now it’s been slightly better for me because i’ve taken ocd meds for a year
can i just say how incredible it is that so many people have this condition?
WE ARE NOT ALONE!!
SAME
oh, I know that one.
hey do you rember the sound of silverware on a plate, nails on a chalkboars, maybe even chewing?
I haven't heard the sound that used to trigger me for years, because the material that creates it is no longer common. In the 'sixties and 'seventies, notebooks, appliance cases and similar items were often covered with ribbed vinyl. The ribs were small, about like human fingerprints. Hearing fingernails on it made me sick. I couldn't even stand to touch the stuff.
lights buzzing... bothered me from youth, spending 8 hours a day hearing them buzz as they flash and flicker during school.. still sets me right on edge, immediately.
Go watch The Backrooms, you're welcome
Same thing with faulty capacitors in cheap computer screens for me.
hmm have you considered a sensory processing disorder
@@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 Well, I was diagnosed with Aspergers just in time for the disorder to be scrapped by the DSM... close enough?
@@NewMessage heh yup, close enough
I get disgusted by hearing people chew their food and gum. It makes me angry and I never understand why. But when I hear my dog chew I think it’s cute, lol! I’ve also never been affected by the word moist. It makes me think of a moist chocolate cake.
I get so angry aswell... from 0 to 100% in an instant 😮
i used to step away when my dog ate to avoid losing my mind.
you have misophonia, it’s an actual condition
EDIT oh it’s also in the video
I'm right there with ya. Not _always_ chewing, but when it hits me... it hits me. Moist cake is *_awesome_*
"Moist" just conjures up old ads for cake mix for me. Chewing bothers me when it's sloppy - like when it's someone with loose dentures, or not closing their mouth - or when my cat catches a rodent and just chomps it down. * shudder * Horrible sounds.
As someone with misophonia, I clicked on this willingly and mustn’t get upset at myself for doing it. Let’s see.
0:23 I almost threw up and I feel the urge to delete my spine :(
I quite dislike chewing, sipping, and lip smacking noise, but my all time most hated noise is when someone imitates the click of a clock and it makes that horrid hollow click sound.
It fills my brain with violence that would put me in a psych ward. I refrain bc if I’m in a ward I can’t see my best friend :(
I have something similar with clicking and chewing is when someone has that awful slimy throat click noise in the back of their throat when they smack their food. My boyfriends friend does it and i don’t have the heart to tell her how much i hate it
same! why do i do this to myself! i am literally hitting myself!
That's what we call a birth problem bcuz your parents used to do stuff that affected you while you were in fetus form. Or it came from nothing... Meh
I watched the video to test myself and my heart rate/blood pressure spiked with the mouth sounds enough that i feel dizzy
All the sounds except the babies crying genuinely made me uncomfortable
I LOVE the sound of Japanese wood scrapers when they’re used properly. But sometimes the blade won’t catch the wood right and it’ll squeak and send uncontrollable goose bumps across my entire body!
Worst sound: when someone “erases” on paper and the pencil has no eraser, or the eraser is dried up.
Agreed. Just reading this made me shudder lol
Reading this comment made my face clench up. I know exactly what you mean
Yeah, I hated reading this. Thank you.
@@vaszgul736 I came back to read what other people said and still had a visceral reaction to it. It's like I'm experiencing the lamest form of PTSD lol
I just cringed reading this. I hate that sound too 😵
I've had Misophonia, and everyone around me said I was just overreacting when I was a child...
The instant disgust and anger when people chew with their mouths open has always been agony.
Was so glad when I found out it wasn't just me suffering that, being relatively common.
I probably have misophonia but haven't been diagnosed with it. Well, I was dx with hyperacuisis (not sure of spelling) but according to everyone in the comments mentioning that it's range or anger inducing instant reactions to certain noises - I have that. Loud noises (like stupid motorcyles revving up) causes me to become instantly ticked off and I get temporarily ragey and often yell out loud to the a$$hole motorcycle whizzing by, or wahtever caused the loud noise (usually vehicle of some kind). Or my dogs (or the neighbor's dogs) barking aggresively at our neighbor's dogs through the fence. That instantly ticks me off, too.
I have no anger issues or in gerneral im a calm person but hcratching rough plastic makes me very angry within seconds.
Most plastic container have this wierd rough blurry surface, hearing the sound of this makes me go in gurrilia mode and punch that plastic out of their hands
I guess i have Misophonia
OH MY GOD WE HAVE THE SAME CONDITION ITS CRAZY
I was told i was overreacting for a long time too
I guess I had it at some point then? Idk there always were (and still are) sounds that drive me nuts to this day for no reason. The more you know
At 47 years old and a Misophonia sufferer for as long as I can remember, it is fair to say I am totally isolated. Never wanting to mingle, always avoid socialising. A disorder I would not wish upon anyone.
Man, I'm sorry. That really sucks.
I don't have misophonia, but I have experienced that feeling of rage/panic from certain sounds. It used to happen a lot when I was a teenager, usually early in the morning, and I think it was related to me chronically not getting enough sleep. Having to perceive other people when I was barely awake just felt so mentally draining. It's like I was just anticipating every next noise and I was in this constant state of stress, which eventually became so overwhelming I had to either stop the noise or leave. It was significantly worse in the morning right after getting up, and it was almost exclusively caused by family members. The more time I spent with a person, the more they would trigger the rage. I think it's because I became so familiar with their sounds that I couldn't help but anticipate them, and i was unable to make that anticipation stop, so it was like constantly being on edge. I often would snap at my family members early in the morning because i couldn't contain the rage, and i felt really bad about it later on.
I can't imagine having to feel like that all the time. That sounds like torture. I hope you have a pair of noise reduction headphones or something, because I imagine that would help.
@@jamiestratton7925 Loops. I promise you I am not a bot or a shill--those things have made it so I can still be employed. They attenuate the noise so not all of it gets through, and the rage quotient goes way down. I was even able to attend a concert last year (the Hu, a Mongolian metal band), and not a single one of the sounds hurt or set me off. (The bass on some other band's song was a different story, but that punched me in the gut, grabbed my stomach, and *twisted* with extreme prejudice. But, that wasn't my ears or Misophonia going off.)
dang all from Misophonia? I mean I understand, I just got other stuff on top, wasnt aware
not sure if this will help but studies have shown magnesium deficiency causes misophonia. perhaps some supplements will help as well as a change in diet?
from my research more folate, B6, and omega-3 could also possibly help
@@iwatchedtoomuchsaikik8949 funny. I do take those for my pyrrolia and adhd...magnesium I am currently out of.
1:39 when the chalkboard sound came back I cringed so hard I pulled a muscle in neck..owie. so chalkboard, styrofoam, and microphone feedback were the worst for me.
Thank you for bringing awareness to this. I've had misophonia since I was a kid and it's really hard to live with. Most people just think I'm overreacting and try to annoy me more.
Yeah and it's not basic things like oh god crushing Styrofoam makes me cringe. It's daily things that affect us and it sucks.
it gives me tears how we now all have each others’ shoulders to cry on
The people who try to annoy us more are the WORST. I went to elementary school with a kid who thought my misophonia was so funny that every time the teacher left the classroom unsupervised, even for a few seconds, he would scramble to the front of the classroom to drag his nails down the chalkboard because he thought my reaction was hilarious.
I'm autistic and have audio processing disorder, so while it's not mysophobia, I am sensitive to noises. My most hated sound is the ones my freezer and fridge make. Their humming is too loud.
Oh god, loud fridges are the worst!
I had one that made a weird dull but loud buzzing sound right after I bought it. Turned out to be the back wall of the freezer (which also housed a fan). I knew someone throwing away a fridge with the same wall/fan assembly, so I swapped them out, the noise went away, and it's been bliss ever since.
If your fridge is making dumb noises, fix it, there's no escaping otherwise.
real, one of the reasons the night is so appealing, just so much quieter even if I dont notice the sounds they drain me
good for me that I dont have even higher sensitivity, or maybe just cause the electric system here's different
I’m autistic too I hate loud noises and i also think the freezer’s humming is too loud
Misophonia*
while i’m not diagnosed officially, i’ve done research and i strongly relate to a lot of autistic experiences- audio triggers included.
the two worst offenders are high school girls chattering/laughing/generally being noisy and one person clapping/stomping. the former will often overload my brain and cause shutdowns if i don’t use ear protection, while the latter is just very intense and distracting.
When people in movies kiss they always make those repulsive squeaky schmacky noises. Even thinking about it nauseates me.
Bro sammeme
Look up asmr you'll love it
did you know most of that is someone kissing their own hand? look up "boom foley kissing sound" and you will see a bunch of them doing it. lol
@@klbriceno1 With all due respect to Foley artists everywhere could you folks please tone it down a little?😚
If it goes on for too long, it gets me, but for the most part, it's just annoying because it's unrealistic.
The sound I dislike the most is nails scratching stainless steel which is most of the time someone just scraping their thermosteel bottle with their nails. It sends shivers down my entire body and makes me want to throw that thing away.
For the most part, I only hate sounds if they're sudden/loud/unexpected (anxiety reaction) or if they're repetitive (car alarms, dripping faucet, etc.) The only 2 sounds I actually *viscerally* react to are mic feedback and metal scraping porcelain.
Thinking about those literally made me nauseous 🤢
Same. Most of these sounds didn't bother me, but being startled by a sound (causing my adrenaline to spike) or a repeating environmental sound that causes me to not be able to concentrate or focus can ruin my entire day. It can even be subconscious. I've had days of what felt like depression from droning sounds (loud hvac unit) that I didn't realize were there until after they were shut off. The sudden absence of the sound can be such a relief that I can feel my anxiety dissolve away. An interesting thing to me, though, is that I'm a drummer, so I'm used to being around certain sudden loud and droning sounds a fair amount. Like they said in the video, some of it may have to do with context and perceived cause or consequences of the sound. Is something wrong? Do I need to fix something? Is someone hurt?
@@neekondrums
Control: do you control when and how it happens, or at least is there a "logic" to it, vs, is it being inflicted upon you.
Definitely how I relate to loud, sudden, intrusive, or repetitive sounds.
The repetitive part reminds me of two songs I heard in public and instantly hated. One is Lovely Day by Bill Withers. At the end he says “daaaaaaay” for 18 seconds long over and over again. The other was one that was playing last night. I Shazammed it so I would know what it was: All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem. It just plays one guitar note over and over again. Actually I’m not sure if that’s really what it was or if the app thought it was because they both have one repeating not. I’m listening to it now and it’s a piano.
@@drivers99 and I actually like "Lovely Day" except for the part you mention. The other song, I couldnt listen to. You're right.
For me it's metal scraping against each other, like when a ladle scrapes against a pot.
Same here! I can’t cook with metal utensils because my soul cringes out of my body when they scrape the metal pots/pans/bowls. Metal scraping against teeth is also very triggering for me, except for when I’m at the dentist for some reason.
@@rosewick14 That's literally exactly how I am
This
Same here but also with mouth sounds
Am i a psycho? I love metal scraping sounds
0:18 "that does nothing to me, I am immune"😂
😂😂😂
@Our_6_stars
Tbh, that wasn't a *_remotely_* painful example. I hear worse on an average store visit! 😂
Not me. That’s the worst sound. I studied in a morgue when I was in school, and no sound or smell is worse to me than crying stinking babies.
@@PneumaNoose
Well that's... well I can't say I envy that. 😓
@@ivoryas1696 which part? Studying in a morgue or not being able to stand the sound of crying children? LOL 😂
Thank you for making this video. I have told many people about this condition but nobody believes that this could actually exist. All of my Misophonia is sounds. My mother passed this to me and all of my siblings, some have severe and some mild.
0:18 that crying sound doesnt sound like actual crying imo
Lol fr
Waaaaa.mp3
@@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.Ibro i pressed the translate button and it looks so goofy
@@RadeonVega64 Like what?
@@I.am.not.in.your.house.or.am.I nvm
I have misophonia! Thank you for spreading awareness. I even learned more! Most of my triggers developed in school because it was an incredibly anxious place for me. Sounds like repeated tapping(pencils, feet, fingers), chewing, saliva sounds, mouth and tongue clicking, whistling, and sometimes humming or soft singing. I start to get angry and panicked when I hear them. All I want to do is scream when it happens and it really really sucks. My mom also has it too
i’m a high school senior, and while i’m decently sure i don’t have misophonia, i heavily suspect i have autism. the sound of my classmates’ laughter and chatter (especially for girls) makes me want to scream and incites violent intrusive thoughts. it has been socially debilitating for the past few years, making it _literally_ physically painful due to the headaches and pain stims i do to keep myself under control.
since realizing this problem isn’t just a personal failing, i’ve made sure to keep noise-canceling headphones nearby at school so i can block out the triggering noise. it’s made this school year much easier so far. take care of yourselves.
this can probably have multiple reasons. When it comes to fight or flight, I ususally either choose flight or freeze (which is also an option). I know I don't have autism (I've been extensively tested as a kid due to reasons I won't go into), but lots of people talking at the same time triggers my flight response, where for example on a birthday party I have to go to another room to calm down and relax for a moment in quiet before I can join in again. It's the overstimulation for me, and I just get overwhelmed with the amount of noise I hear.
I'm glad to hear you found a solution for it, I never thought about that when I was in school... Classmates talking definitely overstimulated me and made it hard for me to concentrate. I'm sorry it physically hurt you, I never experienced that so I can't relate with that.
@@kenenigans thank you for sharing your experience!
it’s definitely been helpful to have access to research and information on autism and its coping mechanisms, since i figure that even if i don’t have it, my experiences are still real and the sound of chatter is simply bad for me. the way i see it, there’s nothing wrong with taking inspiration from autism coping mechanisms for autism-like experiences, so i did just that! if it turns out i don’t have autism, that’s fine, my awareness of it still helped me get through a time when noise was overwhelming and painful.
that’s why research is so important! adhd coping mechanisms can also help people who don’t have it, even if it isn’t targeted to them. i’m glad to live in a time when so much information is readily available so people can find answers and solutions to the problems it feels like only they have.
@@glasses6524 that's very true... a lot of issues overlap in certain diagnoses, and the solutions to those issues are often the same or similar. I also feel knowing I'm not the only one with these issues (or other ones for that matter) makes it easier to cope with them and not feeling alone and "weird" for having them, so thank you for your initial comment as well 😊
Now I understand why I had headphones on pretty much all the time at lunch and in between classes at high school. I didn’t know back then that I’m neurodivergent, and didn’t really think about that until now
I have misophonia but I too also think I may have autism because people chewing, typing, tapping or other things annoy me but loud noises and people talking loudly make me extremely upset and uncomfortable.
I had to give up at 1:30 I’m on my morning commute to class and if I try to continue watching, it will ruin my whole day and I’ll only calm down once I’m home and in bed.
0:13 and I‘m out
yeah same and i don't get it, he explains how bad this is for some people but doesn't put any warning in front of these
@@Stray0He does it later throughout the video with the symbol. :}
Also, this is TH-cam, you can skip, pause, mute, etc.
For me, that sound is not good because I can *feel* what doing that feels like in my fingernails, and that's just
gorydamn awful
@@TheOddInfluencer He didn't at the very beginning, plus I just clicked on it and there are no chapters or bookmarks to where I can skip ahead. No thanks. There's a billion other things I could be doing with my life.
You are good. I refuse to watch.
Babbling makes me crazy, being in a group where everyone is talking makes me nuts. I've dropped packages in the middle of stores and run out if that happens. Also, children shrieking - that's like a knife into my brain. I actually do kind of a whiplash movement with my body it affects me so much.
Children screaming is the worsttt
“KNIFE TO MY BRAIN”. THANK YOU!!! THOSE ARE THE EXACT WORDS THAT DESCRIBE OUR CONDITION.
SAME!! and when people repeat what they said more than a few times it makes me so angry, it sucks :(
Huh
@@froggle_boggle yep..I can relate...cuz my mom won't stop repeating same thing at least 10 times...😖😖😣😣😫😫😫
I've struggled for a while now with chewing sounds, especially gum. It drives me insane. I'm so glad people are drawing attention to this ❤
You’re not alone. Congradulations. You’ve made it through all those sounds before. Be proud❤
Popping gum drives me batty. Can't STAND it.
Edit: not popping like bubbles...that REALLY LOUD *snapping* popping in their mouth popping....UGH
Thank you for making a video. I have Misophonia, but right now accidently under the control because of my anti-anxiety medicament. Still slight reactions to sounds could happen. Almost for all my life I didn't know that I have misophonia, and maybe about 5 years ago did research on my own why I have advert reaction to certain sounds and found out about Misophonia. This disorder not widely addressed, and there is no proven medical treatment for that, but as you mentioned, it makes life harder and affecting relationship at work and home. Even before I knew that I have a condition, I have to ask my relatives to eat separately from me, because even they don't make loud sound of chewing, even slightest sound of it would make me go nuts. Heavy breathing and spitting also affecting my sensibility, if occasionally will hear such sounds in public places. But what interesting, when animals are making loud chewing sound, I don't have that crazy reaction, as if I hear it from people. So uncomfortable and confusing condition.
lol, the bit starting around 8:40 reminded me that I hate the sound of a heartbeat. Like for as long as I can remember, it just gave me the willies, makes me uncomfortable in my own skin. It's one of the reasons I sometimes have trouble meditating, because I start to hear/feel my own heartbeat and then I want to be doing ANYTHING else.
I can hear and feel my heartbeat when I try to sleep and it makes it impossible to fall asleep and meditate
lol I have only known one other person with this "problem".. she cannot and will not take her pulse no matter what, I think I remember her saying she hates working out hard too because she can feel her pulse.
I like to hold my breath until I can feel every heartbeat and consciously focus on each of those beats, carefully and willfully slowing them down. I try and count a little bit past each beat, aiming for a count that's just a bit longer each time. When I'm otherwise in a good state, I can bring my heartbeat down to probably 40 bpm, tho I've never measured it, while holding my breath for over 2min. That's not a normal day, tho, lol.
@@kindlinomg
@@klbriceno1yeah I have a similar response and I will never be able to get a truly accurate blood pressure reading
and what's even weirder, some of these sounds can be actually enjoyed and are used as triggers in ASMR videos
The word "Moist" gives me asmr
I am literally here saying to myself, “this is the dark side of ASMR” while chills run up and down my spine. Ick.
I actually love asmr, that is SOME asmr. I have carefully curated a following of “safe” channels that I know aren’t triggering. Absolutely NO chewing/smacking, and it has to be a “dry” whisper. Mouth sounds send me into unholy rage.
Tuning fork and metalic sounds are my ASMR
@@NominDonutz oh rightttt, yeah, these are nice
1:09 turns out people have a phobia of moistcritical
😢
Damn really? HES ONE OF MY FAVORITE TH-camRS
WOO YEAH BABY! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR !
@@anagramhound AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Well… I mean I’d hope so
I wonder if this explains how I react to those ubiquitous digital alarm clocks from the 80s/90s. I swear that hearing that sound makes my blood pressure spike and puts me on edge for hours. The greatest thing ever was when I could start using my phone as an alarm with a gentle tinkling chime.
The worst part about misophonia is that it’s so instinctual. I know it’s so irrational but I’m sent into a boiling rage over the most mundane everyday sounds.
This is the first time I've seen anything about Misophonia awareness without actively seeking out and it makes me really happy that we're finally getting representation. I myself have debilitating Misophonia that's ruining my life at the moment. I'd say about 80% of the sounds that trigger me the most are body sounds like sniffling, lip smacking, slurping, whispering etc... Even just the sound of someone breathing is enough to provoke a panic attack. Also sounds caused by people, especially family members (which according to my limited research seems to be pretty common) and sharp and wet noises in general are very often triggering. When my mom is eating in the kitchen, and I can only faintly hear her silverware clanking (not scraping) against the plate, I want to jump out the window. A common misconception is that Misophonia only reacts to sounds. Some visual stimuli provokes the same reaction as auditory, such as seeing someone chew gum, even though I can't hear it.
The absolute worst thing about Misophonia (besides being stressed 24/7 because of constant more or less triggering noises, and being unable to do a lot of stuff I really want to do) is that my education is really limited. I managed to find a good high school that has understanding staff and can do more accommodations than usual, and thanks to them I can just barely get through the school day, but when I get home, I'm completely drained of energy and I can't even bring myself to do the things I usually find fun like playing the piano or videogames. I don't know if I'll be able to go to college or study at a university, which sucks since I have high ambitions. I can't learn by watching TH-cam tutorials either as they're often recorded with poor audio quality, lip smacking, sniffling, and lots of mouse clicks. The only medium that (somewhat) consistently works is reading written instructions, which is also made difficult by my ADHD.
Misophonia ruins everything. My life is in shambles right now and I'm trying to find ways to cope, but it's not very easy. Wearing noise cancelling headphones everywhere that isn't my home helps a little. They effectively block out noises at the cost of awareness of what is happening around me, so they don't help much during lessons in school. Some TH-cam videos can be fixed by running them through noise cancelling software, but this only works sometimes. The best way to cope is simply to not go anywhere or do anything, which is what I have to resort to when it gets too overwhelming. If I wasn't blessed to have understanding and supporting family and friends, I would have taken my own life.
If anyone's got questions, ask away! I'm really passionate about Misophonia awareness, so don't hesitate
You need the help of a professional who understands misophonia. Are you under health insurance? Calling them or looking on their website may give you a starting place to look for therapists... If you have no insurance, reach out to your school guidance counselor and see if there are resources available to you... Also, you may have seen ads for 'Better Help', a therapy platform that is by phone or text. Even if you can't afford them or don't have insurance, perhaps they can put you in touch with some options.... and lastly, you can Google for help with misophonia, or coping skills for it... Good luck! I hope your horizon broadens!
I'm sorry you have to go through that. I absolutely despise silverware scraping a plate, nails on a chalkboard, metal against concrete or metal, and Styrofoam
I suffer from this. I spent about four otherwise not so bad years of my life living under someone (after my first upstairs neighbor moved) that stomped around all night. When I finally found a place enough to work that I could afford and moved (that was much quieter) I would still panic when I heard a car door slam or similar because my whole body was anticipating the hours of stomping to begin again. I'm also really sensitive to bounding ball sounds, leaf blowers, styrofoam, clocks ticking, heaving breathing, chalkboards, and that sound of silverware. I really wish more people would realize this is a real disorder and not just me trying to be over sensitive or a Karen or whatever.
I relate to you so hard. Car doors shutting is a nightmare for me for the same reason. And when people sit in their car with bass music playing.
omg as someone whose main trigger is stomping, that sounds like an actual nightmare. I'm sorry you had to go through that
Dude! Same! The upstairs neighbor slammed his cabinets and his pipes made hella loud grinding noises...and he walked loud 😡 I would get my broom and bang on the ceiling, and call management.
My husband didn't support me 😞 he got upset with me
I have had Misophonia for over a decade. The sound of chewing, scraping and Styrofoam all induce a skin-crawling and irritable sensation that overwhelms my brain
10:10(ish) - you absolutely CAN hear the "temperature difference" in pouring water, btw! (im excited cuz im glad im not alone lol)
yes i have seen reels about this and research. most people are able to dii
differentiate between hot and cold water pouring
the sound of boiling water being poured fills me with rage for no reason. warm or cold water is fine. weird
Hot Water. It sounds.... softer when hot right? Like more round or cloudy
@@mauricemotoman3305 i feel like i am the only one who can differentiate 🫠
@@mauricemotoman3305 ikr, warm water is round, cold water is pointy lmao
joe: certain words
me: moist, he’s gonna say moist
joe: …like moist *MOOOOIST*
me: ok went further than i thought 😆
I like the sound of "moist"
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I've been diagnosed with misophonia, and my primary trigger is dog barks and howls. As one might expect, it's hell on earth. People could literally not care any less about their dogs' barking anyway, and they will fight you for the right to have their howling demon yammer all night. And no one takes misophonia seriously but doctors. So even politely asking them to maybe not let their dog hang out in the yard alone and bark for two hours after 11 at night not only gets them angry and offended, but no one but a doctor or another misophonia sufferer will EVER be on your side about it either. And if that fellow misophonia sufferer is a dog lover then you're on your own.
The symptoms I get is instant high heartrate and higher blood pressure causing a headache, complete body tension and an inability to concentrate on anything but wanting the sound to stop, and rage. Sleep is not even a possibility after I wake up like that unless I use a sedative.
man that sucks
Hey, what specialty diagnoses this? Is it psychiatry? Also, does the diagnosis... do any good? I 100% have misophonia, but don't know what to do about it. 😕 Also... barking is an awful trigger to have. But regardless of misophonia, your neighbors shouldn't be leaving a dog outside barking after eleven. Like, that's just basic "being a neighbor" is not causing a disturbance at night. They have no right to be offended by you asking them not to do that. Do you have an HOA or landlord you could talk to?
No one likes hearing dogs bark and howl for 2 hours straight. That's just obnoxious lol
@@safaiaryu12 I was diagnosed by my psychiatrist based on my physical responses to certain sounds and their effect on my health, re: sleep and stress levels. I was prescribed a sedative to use to deal with this as needed. I imagine a psychologist could probably suspect misophonia, but they are not supposed to diagnose things that might need medication to address.
Thankfully, I don't have an HOA (they are honestly worse than a thousand barking dogs, at least the dogs aren't on a power trip), but the offense thing is just people being people. Nobody EVER wants to think that anything of theirs, whether it's pets, kids, their own habits or temper, or anything, is doing something anyone could rightfully criticize, and a lot of people will push back because they simply don't want to think they are in the wrong. I won't say that dog owners are particularly like this, because I do know some dog owners who would be mortified if they knew their dog was hurting their neighbor's health, but in my own personal experience my dog-owning neighbors have been absolutely uninterested in doing anything about their barking dogs and quick to take offense at any requests to do so. No matter how politely or diplomatically I approach it, I'm either ignored or told off, so I'm now discouraged from trying to talk things out with people and more likely to call the police or animal control if someone's being unreasonable with it. Like you said, nobody wants to hear a dog barking for two hours at night!
The curse of misophonia is that it wrecks me for the entire afternoon if the neighbor's dog barks *normally* for a couple of minutes at something. But. The source of that misophonia is very likely a conditioned reaction to the uncaring ones letting their dogs interrupt sleep and cause stress for weeks on end.
@@Minyassa That all makes sense. And I agree, HOAs are awful entities but this was a moment where I was hopeful they could be useful for once. 🙄 But you're probably way better off without one. And yeah, you're also right about people taking offense. I guess that drives me nuts because I personally am loath to bother other people, so if someone told me I was bothering them, I'd do anything I could to fix it. So for someone to react like you're in the wrong for asking them to be decent human beings... oh boy, that irritates me. Sorry you're going through that. I might talk to my psychiatrist about this at some point, but I just switched to a new one this year, so I'm gonna feel weird bringing that up right away, lol. Thank you for your response.
People around me would always call my weird reactions to particular noise as crazy behavior, so glad to hear that I'm not alone in the way I feel, some of the worst noise is like particular volume of music, paper and nails, teeth and fork, and so many more😅
2 part comment:
1 fun fact. Many movie theaters have 2 dedicated speakers for infra and ultrasound. Sounds we can't hear. Horror movies tend to use the infrasound to cause the audience to physically feel paranoid along with the protagonist while action movies will use ultrasound to make explosions feel like explosions.
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My parents ' corrected' my aversion to some sounds by exposure therapy. A major trigger for me was my father's air compressor. My mother locked me in the garage several times while it was going off to ' fix' me. I mean, it worked, I tolerate it now but still. I get a similar reaction to any power tool noise or loud industrial noises but I can keep my reaction in check, especially since getting on anxiety medication. I will get physically fatigued with prolonged exposure though...
Iv been told that my reactions are common for Autistic people and I do have ADHD so I very well could be on the spectrum.
You could be on the spectrum, but alos, sensory sensitivities are very very common with ADHD too, it's just not talked about as much for some reason. And what your parents did sounds awful! Graded exposure therapy can be helpful for all kinds of things, but locking you in a room with the thing you hate is NOT graded exposure therapy! Egads!
Loss of agency, the ability to control my environment, is a BIG thing for me. I would have called CPS on my parents if they had done such a thing. Fortunately for me, they had sensory issues as well, and they got it.
I've noticed that in movies and TV when people throw up, the sounds they make are usually coughing and spitting rather than actual belching sounds.
That's called censorship or just lazy people who can't botter with "foley" since the 60's. It's the same reason every single person getting shot in an action movie moans the same way. Or women screaming when they see something dead or scary, like people would actually scream in those situations lol
This! I hate this in tv and movies. It's like baby coughs, oops I spit up. No! Vomiting is wretching and heaving (noisy!). When there's a "good" vomit scene it surprises me more so!
I choke, cough, and spit when I'm vomitting. Violently enough on one occasion that I burst capillaries around my eyes.
That is by design, actual vomiting sounds can cause others to feel nausea as well. There’s a reason why so many people put their guts out in the cinema when The Exorcist was released 😂
@K40L4 It's neither censorship nor lazy foley work, it's just that the vast majority of people don't want to hear actuall vomiting noises in entertainment. Entertainment is supposed to be enjoyable, and It's disrespectful to say that foley artists are lazy when they are just doing their job well by not compromising the audience's enjoyment in the name of "realism". .
The most annoying sounds to me is the buzzing of a fly or any insect near my ear also chewing loudly and snoring literally makes me infuriated
That's a good one! Mosquito!!!!
Who else imagined a mosquito chewing near one's ear? 🙋🏽♀️
Snoring doesn't infuriate me, or make me angry at all, but it prevents me from sleeping, and the lack of sleep makes me grouchy.
There are a number of sounds that make me cringe (styrofoam, lip smacking, etc), but only snoring gives me the anger reaction! And also leaf blowers. Snoring and leaf blowers = instant rage.
@@tb6303Then you do not have misphonia.
The difference between people who make light jokes and not taking annoying sounds seriously (not saying yall are wrong or bad) and misphonia sufferers is the sheer level of suffering.
To you, annoying sounds are annoying. To us, it is hell on earth. In those moments, most of us would prefer a gunshot to the head than to endure the sound. It is that type of pain. It is not annoyance. It is agony. Raw, bleeding, agony, like a knife to the brain. To us this is nothing to joke about.
The sounds of clocks ticking or people typing on their phones (the clacking sound that comes from it) is extremely distressing to me. My dad doesn’t have his phone on silent mode so his phone makes those keyboard clacking sounds and every single time I’m near him while he’s texting someone on his phone, it just makes me wanna grab his phone and throw it across the room. I am so glad I’m not the only one who has these kinds of sensory issues about certain noises.
I'm not a native english speaker, and the word "moist" doesn't effect me at all. More interesting, in 0:39 I didn't like the sound, but it wasn't so bad for me. I didn't know the word "styrofoam" and I didn't identify what it is from the sound. When I finished watching the video I checked it, and when I saw what it is, I got the chills.
I think for the most part, people that are upset by the word “moist” are just being dramatic. I could be wrong, but it seems pretty easy to get over
@@illusory87yeah I do not think that qualifies as a misophonic reaction. It’s just a word that’s associated with some gross uses. When I hear styrofoam squeaking, I I want to leave the room. Leave the house. Leave my skin. It is physically uncomfortable. It’s not just annoying or off putting, it’s triggering my fight or flight response. It makes these almost painful shivers run down by spine and shoulders.
People don’t have that kind of physical reaction to the word “moist”.
I also have never been affected by the word "moist". I remember way back kids talking about it in middle school, and I pretended to be grossed out to fit in, but honestly it's a word I use pretty often at work talking to customers when describing different fish entrees.
Moist jokingly seems to remind, at least men, of a moist va-jay-jay. Essentially a reminder of a private part. So just hearing it gives off a strange feeling about it, which is probably why you can cringe hearing it and you don't know why.
@Epic_C
Idl it because of the way it literally sounds. Moyeest. *SHUDDERS* Don't like another word, too, but I can't even type it. Um...dirt but squ instead of d. HORK...even that gets me...nope. nopenopenope.
Yeah ok I'm done. I CANNOT.
The sound of styrofoam makes me cringe. Ever since I was a kid I have absolutely hated that sound.
I have to take care of Styrofoam trash cuz my roommate can't handle it. So I totally understand
It’s annoying and there is supposed much stuff with it, ugh.
Try wearing headphones and touching Styrofoam. If you happen to be sensitive specifically to the high-pitched frequencies of Styrofoam (like I am) a pair of headphones may be able to filter out those sounds. No need for fancy noise canceling, just having something solid over your ears may help. It's worth a try.
i become incapacitated for like a minute as soon as i touch styrofoam, i hate that sound so much i literally cannot bear it
literally makes my skin crawl
Human politely chewing their food: 😡😫😖
Cat going absolutely feral on stinky wet food: 🥺♥🥰
*MOIST* food
Human snoring: 🤢🤮😵💫
Cat snoring: 🥰☺️😋
ikr it's so weird 😭😭
i guess species matter.
I guess it's because of expectations between both species? People are expected to know manners, but animals really aren't.
SLURPING. I can't stand it. It makes my stomach squize, then my pulse icreases and I just can't think of nothing else other than this noise. And that I want to stop it no matter what. Tell sb to stop doing it, even raise my voice, and if they keep slurping - I cover my ears, then leave the room. I would love to travel to Japan but the slurping makes me genuinely ultra anxious... There are many other sounds I hate (typical ones), but slurping is Top 1.
I wonder how many of these stem from some trauma they encountered as a child. Not all of them of course, but some of them. Especially when she talks about having a fight or flight reaction or a panic attack. It just seems like PTSD.
We have electronic locks at my workplace, and when a door is open too long or it's opened when not fully closed, the long beep pierces my soul
CRT TV whine used to drive me insane. Flat screens were such a relief. Oddly my retro gaming nostalgia, possibly combined with tinnitus from not wearing earplugs at music events, make CRTs more appealing & less annoying... we also lose audible range as we age so there's that.
You can hear that too? When I was a kid, I could walk by someone's house and be able to tell their TV was on. I could hear that "whine" (for lack of a better word).
Always hated that as a kid. Sometimes to the point of asking people to turn off their T.V. because the whine was so horrendously loud. Adults couldn't hear it, but they seemed to understand that it was, in fact, a real thing.
I feel sorry for our pets who surely suffer listening to all sorts of obnoxious high-pitched whines that we have no idea are even there.
Our water pitcher scrapes against the glass shelf in our fridge... I almost crashed out when I first heard it
The closer I am to a person (in terms of relationship) the angrier I get to the sound of their chewing. No clue why lol. Only times I’d really feel an affect from a strangers chewing is in an environment that’s meant to quiet (studying in a library, quiet scenes during a movie, etc)
"Dank" has always been a positive word in my experience, since most people don't use the word the way they used to.
Nails on a chalkboard is the one that gets me. The sound, and sometimes even just imagining the sound, can actually make me shiver.
Nails on a chalkboard and a couple other sounds are so intolerable to me I shuver, I feel nauseous, I have to cover my ears and run away.....its seriously extreme. but everything else people here talk about like chewing, aluminum foil are fine....
I'm not personally bothered by any particular sound on it's own, including the ones in this video (though it sounds pretty rough for those who are). That being said, I'm on the autistic spectrum and it's when noises are particularly loud (Good hearing is not a superpower, let me assure you) or when there's a lot of sounds overlapping at once. I've had shutdowns even as an adult from the sound of heavy traffic and two conversations going on, there was a lawnmower going, bird calls, the wind blowing through leaves, and my brain was trying to process ALL of it at once.
If it makes you feel any better, non-autistic people can also have issues with too much going on all at the same time. I can't stand crowds where there's a bunch of people trying to talk over each other. The anxiety hits and I have to get away.
The echoey, indoor pool sound of tall-ceilinged rooms, like big box stores or gymnasiums. I feel like I'm drowning in reverb.
I'm autistic as well but the only sound I found so far that "triggers" me is the sound of silverware like a fork scraping on a bare metal pan... the screech from that immediately gives me goosebumps & makes me cringe
Some other sounds annoy me but I think that's pretty much on par with other people
@@Sithhy Do you have sensory issues with any other senses? I do, not strongly, but with pretty much any of them. Even smells can occasionally make me sick. I considered giving an example, but even my ASD brain knows that is TMI.
@@MelissaThompson432 Not from what I could tell. No surface textures bother me, no material properties like slimey, squishy etc. bother me, loud sounds are somewhat annoying depending on the sound type but I think that goes pretty much for almost everyone else, smells don't really bother me more than a typical person, no food textures like jelly put me off nor stuff like juice with pulp; I used to dislike tomatoes for many years but that was pretty much due to their taste, not the way they felt in my mouth.
Altough I gotta say, I'm really touchy about having things put in/near my nose, eyes or ears, primarily during a medical examination as I suddenly will start thinking of the worst scenarios lol
4:05 I saw the plate, fork, and knife, and I instantly cringed
Tranks to captions for letting me access the information without the torture. Two triggers I have that I haven't seen mentioned here : the sound of saliva clicking in the mouth of someone talking, and computer keyboards.
I find the keyboard sounds actually soothing, but feel physically ill with metal scrapping on things or wet things being manipulated (my personal hell is find a cake recipe that looks tasty and is an ASMR channel)
Bruhh dry mouth sounds are the worst
The sound of chalk squeaking on a board or cutlery grating on a plate probably gets the most visceral reaction out of me, but I think thats just cause the frequency hurts my ears though.
@12:23 - Joe, you might want to do some research. Not only is this a myth, but several Japanese YT creators I've watched have commented specifically on how there is no such tradition. If anything, you'd likely be seen as uncouth or undisciplined.
totally agree with u
I have a fear of people breathing in through their teeth. Mine just start hurting instantly. Weirdly enough, I don't react to any other sounds at all.
Polystyrene sqeaking makes me feel like my teeth are peeling and my kneecaps are turning to dust. I can't explain it, but it makes me so sick to my stomach.
Very evocative description!!
That's pretty bad. I only shiver and have my hair stand up. It's definitely the worst sound.
i actually like how the word moist sounds. the oi sound its somehow satisfying.
How else could anyone express a really enjoyable bite of cake
I have a couple of sensory overwhelm issues due to ASD and among them is that I find sounds to be “too loud” at noticeably lower volume than most seem to, though it can vary in severity day to day. So mine may be atypical, but here goes. Babies crying is not necessarily painful (unless very loud or close) but is a strong anxiety inducer _at any distance._ Nails on chalkboard, scraping utensils, and furniture squealing loudly as it is slid across a hard floor can be extremely unpleasant or painful if loud enough. But most of the rest are generally milder irritants if at all. Almost any repetitive noise can be quite annoying to me though. But the sound of a word, like “moist,” has never bothered me, interestingly enough.
A lot of these sounds are actually extremely enjoyable for me. Like, styrofome, breaks on a train, microphone feedback, mosquitoes. Anything really high pitched makes me feel really good. I actively seek out these kinds of sounds, record them, and make them into loops to listen to on repeat. It's like the best feeling ever. Is my brain ok?
Oh but white noise, relaxing ambient rainforest sounds - I can't stand that sort of thing
oddly enough, you're not alone, the only things i can't stand are white/colored noises (sucks to be you if you're in an air conditioned room with the white noise-like humming lmao) and probably vomit noises. ASMR also pisses me off
I enjoy the sound of styrofoam too, but I don't go out of my way to hear it. I will usually rub two pieces together for a bit if I'm unpackaging something
I get this same stimuli from tape, the sound of it and feel of it on my hands/fingers brings a huge sense of joy and pleasure, particularly clear box tape
I dislike how misunderstood Misophonia is, I’ve told my friends several times to chew with their mouths closed because I don’t want to just tell them to stop eating, but they just don’t listen and it’s made me snap several times and my dad just yells at me when I simply look at him while he’s chewing
I wish I didn’t have it honestly :,]
1:07 I KNEW YOU WERE GONNA SAY MOIST
Anyone else a fan of Dead Like Me?
Pair misophonia with ears that are so acute that you can hear dog collars, and life gets miserable. I'm always told to just suck it up and deal. People have no idea what it's like to have pain shoved in your ears all the time. Oh, I'm a crab? Try being quiet for, heck, just five little minutes!
as someone with a sister who has misophonia, i have no idea why some people are so intolerant. i know how it feels because when she gets mad because of it i get really concerned for her and scared and i just want people to be less ignorant about it so that neither of us have to feel that turmoil.
i just can't stand seeing her get blatantly hurt and disrespected.
@@sweeterstuff She might try Loops. They've been a miracle to me at work. They don't block out everything, but they attenuate it enough to reduce the noise and rage it provokes.
I think you'd like me. I usually don't say much, and I truly wish others would return the favor.
i think you are my soulmate 🥹
Unfortunately, if you can be "othered" in any way, groups will often treat you less favourably because of it, rather than have compassion for your struggles. Shameful behaviour in my opinion. As a species, we need to have more patience and understanding with each other.
Babies crying.
This was heartbreaking and so relieving to learn I have an extremely severe reaction to babies crying. And I know why now!! Ever since I was a kid I struggled with the sound of crying babies. I couldn’t even baby sit but that was considered the “norm” for most teenage girls to do so as a first job kinda thing. But I would come home in extreme panic attacks in fear of THINKING the baby could cry.
As a mother of 5….i just thought I was a horrible mom because my response to my children crying was me crying with them because it was hell. My husband. Thank god. He has been my saving grace with this.
This video explains so much.
And it’s relived years of stress of me fearing I was a horrible mom.
Thank you. 🙏🏼 I can’t stress enough. Thank you
Thanks for making this video and raising awareness about misophonia because this is a condition which is not very known and disrupt the lives and relationships of many people, including myself! It turned out I've been having it since I know myself and I never knew it was a thing. It's really bad because it affects your daily life and obviously people don't understand it, thinking that you're just weird, rude, or even crazy. Sometimes it's difficult to have a conversation with a person or do anything meaningful in the presence of these trigger sounds. Just like it was explained in the video - the sound doesn't even have to be loud but it affects you so bad and you can't make any sense of it... I got to the point of thinking I probably have some autistic condition like Asperger's (because this is one of the symptoms) but after taking a test it turned out I'm not even close. So I continued living my life, feeling that something is wrong but not sure exactly what 😅. It wasn't until this year (at the age of 32) when I learned about misophonia and it was an eye opening moment for me (and my close ones as well). Of course, I still have the problem and it won't go away, but now know I'm not crazy and it's out of my control.
PS: Also you might be surprised to learn that some people with misophonia can have intolerance towards various kinds of sounds but are totally ok with the common ones like chalk on board, stirofoam on a glass, etc. I don't even have a problem with the word "moist" but this could be because I'm not an English speaker. But unfortunately I have problems with some words in my own language (Bulgarian) so I know how "moist victims" feel. 😀
Yep 😢
I have Aspergers and never knew this was a separate thing. Common ones for me are the sound of a dog drinking, a rake on gravel, and lip smacking, but I have no problem with nails on a chalkboard or "moist" or barfing noises. This used to cause lots of issues, but now, people who know me don't question it if I suddenly cover my ears. So it's still a bit problematic sometimes...
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There are some sounds and word that make me gag and make me want to throw up. There are textures that make me want to claw my skin off, and smells that make me panic. It really affects me when I'm around others because they're all really common things that actually comfort others.
I HATEEEE sharp s sounds, like the ones that almost sound like a whistle 0:37 0:40 like it hurts my teeth like I can’t explain it
My most hated sounds are the sounds of the upstairs neighbors walking around like they're outside on the cement and when they're dragging furniture around their apartment.
Thanks, thumbs up, have a great day.
I love you 😢
@@opphann BTW I'm not the celebrity, Tom Hanks, I'm just one of the other 11 guys with the same first and last name.🥴
You’re not alone. Stay well.❤
One of the best channels here on TH-cam
I've grown to dislike the sound of cicadas. This started when I moved to Japan where the subtropical summer weather leads to thousands coming out at once. But wait! You say... In anime they use cicadas as a nostalgic sound! Yeah, one is okay. But a nonstop all out assault on your ears extremely annoying.
I commented on a cicada this summer and my husband said, "Is that the bug that sounds like tinnitus?" And I'd never thought about it but that's pretty much how my tinnitus sounds so I must have described it to him (he doesn't have it).
Two -stroke engines, especially leaf blowers and dirt bikes.
I have to agree with the comment about mosquitoes flying near the ear.
i have this but visually. I just can't bare seeing people bite their nails for example. And this is only one of many (usually compulsions people do when stressed) things that make me physically angry for no reason at all. Am currently searching therapy for this but it can be very disruptive to my life sometimes.
Worst thing is, most of these compulsions i cant bear seeing, i do myself as well
I HATE chewing so much, my family yells at me because I can’t stop telling my brothers to chew quietly😭 also I really hate the word”steamy”
SAME! Like it’s not personal 😭 I can’t even stand listening to my own chewing sometimes. Freaks me tf out-
Steamy
They say you’re overreacting or you are picking on that person because you hate them or whatever.
You’re not alone. I’m with you. Stay well.
(For me, someone closing their mouth while chewing cleanses 90% of the trigger sounds they create, excluding lip-smacking or wet food noises that happen when someone opens their mouth for another bite of food.)
Never heard that word and I already think it sounds a bit annoying 😭.
Steamy
Bones breaking, like in movies etc. I can't. I just can't. It makes me feel ill. I have to block off my ears, and shut my eyes tight, until it's all over. Also, the noise of the dentist's drill - even though I've never been afraid of the dentist - that sound makes me muffle my ears. If I'm the victim, then I have to wear ear-plugs or headphones to listen to music.
Fun fact: the bone-crunching sounds used in movies are often produced by crushing an empty water bottle. Its often mixed with other sounds for a greater effect, but the crinkle of an empty water bottle is a surprisingly crunchy sound.
@@myrmatta1 that is so funny, I guess celery is used also, along the same lines. I follow a boom foley artist who says a lot of broken bone sounds is celery
@@myrmatta1 It came from hearing my own arm break, when I fell off a bike. |But yes, anything like that can trigger me. Not normal crunchy, crinkle sounds, but actual real bones breaking. Movies are not real, but it's a sound I can't deal with, and avoid.
Ooooooh yes. The dentist drill is AWFUL
6:15 apparently that's because American emergency vehicle sirens are designed like that which damages hearing while many other countries design their emergency vehicle sirens still loud but at a lower pitch so they are a lot less damaging while still being able to hear and respond to them 🚒🚑
1:06 my friend HATES hearing the word toes and she had to say it because it was in a line in the musical the jungle book that we did that she had to say 😂
I'm autistic and have adhd so all sounds are pretty much my least favourite sounds like electricity, air conditioner and people who whistle (sorry! You can whistle if you want). I wear either Loop's (earplugs) or my noise cancelling headphones everyday since I nearly had a panic attack in at the store because all of the noises.
Tf, lol
@MyysticYT Knobhead.
Edit: I made it PBS friendly.
My daughter is in the same boat (she is on the spectrum) and she copes with it in the same way...noise cancelling earbuds. At home it doesn't bother her as much, but when she's out with friends, all of the extra social stimuli makes it a lot harder to cope with.
I have adhd and i'm annoyed by way to many things such as breathing from the mouth, chewing or swallowing
I don't have physical reactions to sounds so much, but touch - YES! Certain textures can make me feel like I'm about to vomit. Chalk, cheap silk, clay drying on my hands, anything rough, cheap microfiber 🤮
I have an issue with chewed gum, even in wrappers (thanks, Mom!). It reminds me of brains. I can handle gum that hasn't been chewed, but if it's been chewed... Don't even ask me to throw it away for you. I will bring the whole trash can to you to throw your gum away, but I will NOT be touching it, even through the wrapper.
Yes!!!!!! I freak out at touching things that are too smooth or have a certain grain to them: smooth cement (like the floor of the garage), cinnamon sugar donut, Ritz chips - basically textures that simulate my hands or feet being numb.
biting on a piece of bread and feeling the flour with your "teeth" is something I can never get over, it's so horrible I pick my breads wisely
Popsicle sticks & touching dry rags for some reason makes my skin crawl
It's paper, wood pencils and the feeling of writing with a wooden pencil for me
chewing, slurping, high pitched noises. anything to do with people who don't know how to chew with their mouths closed. literally triggers my flight or fight. I hate misophonia. but also I have found a way to combat it, from a person who also has it (ex friend). i use earbuds. EVERYWHERE I go, I never leave without them, playing music, not too loud, but just enough to drown them and also listen to them talk. Some of my family is good at remembering, and my best friend tries to remember to. which means so much to me. but I really cant understand how people eat with their mouths open, like are you gasping for air?
Dull pencil wood scraping on paper. It's not just sound but also the physical feel of the pencil.
Always hated that physical vibration (it seemed to travel through my entire arm and end on the back of the head), but never noticed it made much of a sound. Also, it only works with some types of pencil, possibly because of differences in the wood. I remember as a kid choosing pencils based mostly on that.
Yes! Exactly.
Also, the thought of teeth biting into a cotton shirt or just plain cotton. Makes my nerves shoot through my body. The dull pencil thing is just as bad. I thought it was just me!
@@rickearl1956 I'm the same! Why are we like this?? 😂
Ugggghhhh, yes! There are lot of things with a similar kind of vibration that just makes me want to die. Chalky fingers on brown paper bags are another one (I was a gymnast and later an aerialist, so chalk on fingers has been a common occurance in my life).
I love thaaaat
Vocal Fry, that creaky sound you hear a lot on media, more often by women than men, sets my teeth on edge. I often have to turn off the tv because I just can’t stand it
I have the same experience... and I find my hate of vocal fry has been growing the last few years, in a way that recently i have stop certain video's or podcasts sometimes. Either it's me or there's just way more vocal fry going around... (or both, of course)
@@raymanscapeI don’t think it’s you! It seemed to start in the US and it’s now well established here in Australia (we copy all things American 😁) my granddaughter has started doing it 😬 the horror!
I searched for this comment. I'm glad i found it. I can't stand it. I get so angry hearing it. I hate the people that speak like that. I think more and more people speak that way and it makes me loose hope in humanity. I think at some point when everyone does this i need to cut all ties to people and i have to stop watching videos on the internet to stay sane. i hope this trend does not spread to everyone.
I never even noticed it until I tried finding out what it was, now it bothers me too...
Jojo Siwa ☠️
3:00 Oh... what a noble cause
yes
You hit it on the nail with the words to. The memories it brings up.
I hate the screeching noises forks make on plates
Me too, as well as silverware hitting teeth. That could be because I also hate the way it feels.
Right, nails on chalkboard doesn't bother me at all but forks on plates yeah
Yes!
100% this, but only certain frequencies. Makes my teeth hurt. Sometimes when I'm eating, my teeth will accidentally make that same noise, and I have to physically stop eating. I either have the urge to run screaming or start crying. I have had tears in my eyes before when I've heard it. Grinding my teeth helps, otherwise I will not eat for a whole day.
The worst thing is it gets stuck in the acoustic memory for several minutes more
I have misophonia. During my school years one of my friends would always, always, get a bag of the crunchiest potato chips known to man and eat them at the end of lunch. Because of this I spent a lot of time I could have had with friends, and was instead hiding in one of the printing rooms. I tried at some point to articulate my condition to my friends, but I don't think they ever really understood it. As that one friend never did stop eating potato chips even upon noticing my abrupt absences every time he did. On top of this, at restaurants and places with background I can generally not be affected by the sounds because there is a good amount of background noise and distractions. But I have another friend that eats particularly loudly, and I will avoid going out on excursions with them if I know we are going to dinner or lunch. Which is sad because they are a really nice guy through and through, and it would be wrong of me to say "don't eat for the entirety of the day because I'm here." But I can't do it, and I mean that. Which is what people may not realize. Every time my mom would return from work I would get up and leave. She thought I was avoiding her because I didn't like her, when in reality it was because she always ate a snack after coming home. I didn't want to insult her for doing that, so I would just leave. When I was little my dad thought that exposing me to the sounds of eating would make me become used to it because he was really afraid I wouldn't build up any relationships in the future because of it. It truly felt like torture, and eventually he relented. And once again, you may be thinking that my family knew I had this, and yet would consistently still chew around me. It is because they forget, they forgot every day almost. I understood it with friends, but it made me feel worse that my family seemed unable to properly understand my condition. And to be fair to myself, I feel I wasn't asking for much. Just that no one started eating potato chips around me. But this truly has affected my whole life. My friend group, everyone in it are people that don't usually chew gum. I cannot befriend some one that consistently chews gum. Which is unfortunate. Really, it isn't the worst thing that could ever happen to me, but I would ask that if you have a friend that has told you that they have misophonia, that you please, please do not chew gum around them or eat potato chips around them. Save it for later, they will love you for that. And if you have a friend or family member and they appear to have it (they leave during dinner or become more snappy when you chew gum), it's okay to ask. It's just little things. And please, please don't make fun of them or try to say things like "you're not annoyed at your own chewing, so what's wrong with mine?" Because it doesn't work like that. I wish I knew why too.
My case may be particularly bad, because if I see someone opening and closing their mouth like they are chewing gum, even if it is through a window so I cannot hear it, I still feel the same distress and agitation as if I can hear it. I don't know many other people with this, so I don't know if other people suffer from that. If you are particularly empathetic maybe don't chew gum in tightly packed public transport, as chances are you may be causing suffering to someone.
Noise cancelling head phones. You be around your friends. Listen to three songs while they snack. Continue as normal.
Your other choices are:
avoid the world.
constantly remind everyone at all times.
Put on headphones like anyone else with acoustic issues
Edit* wrote fast since I'm in a hurry but I wanted to add:
I assume you've tried this. But if it's something that is affecting your life, it might be worth trying again. They have some very fancy headphones these day. I think mine are Tozo they have 3 settings: Noise Cancelling which works incredibly well, pass through and NC off for the normal muffling.
@@GrifoStelle Intriguing point. I do specify that I do not seek at all to stop people from enjoying their potato chips, it's just in the case of someone I've known for over a decade still being completely ignorant of it that gets to me. That is a deeper emotional component though. But honestly avoiding people is my best option. Yes I can use headphones, but that's the same thing as not being there for me. If it works for other people that is great! But not for me. I feel like I am just ignoring them purposely. I think taking the burden upon myself and leaving and coming back when they are done is just the easiest and least obtrusive action. And as I said even seeing people eat chips or chew gum elicit the same reaction out of me.
as someone who has a sister with misophonia, i know how it feels for her to constantly have to deal with things like these. i know how intolerant some people can be towards it and those people are just so annoying, even though i'm not the one experiencing the symptoms. if she gets mad about it around me, then i get scared and just want to try to help.
@@sweeterstuff I think you are a great help for her. I've been looking for one consistent ally forever, so I believe it is a great help.
@@justnoah2073 Loops. OMG, loops. I'm not a shill, I swear--I have it almost as bad ad you, and those things knock out those sounds, but not people's voices.
1:05 had me bawling 😂 . Can I make MOOOIIIISSSTT a ringtone?