autism and misophonia

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Who else has misophonia? It means hatred of sound and is a sensory based condition, so it's very common in autism.


How do you deal when you're constantly being triggered by harmless noises? Like, people have the right to chew, snap their fingers, clap out of amusement, vocal stim, etc. But ALL of those sounds set me off and put me in a state of constant rage.

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Thankfully as long as I'm not subjected to dogs it's mostly not a problem.

I have something like that going on, but I guess if it were that bad I'd never have become a musician or started buying and playing records. That makes me wonder what kind of noises are unpleasant to us, and whether it's really the type of noise or just the context that makes the difference.

I had misophonia through my late childhood to early teenage years.
It was a manifestation of my mental health and emotional stability than the other way around.

It was bad enough to a point that sometime at puberty, it made me basically agoraphobic, mostly because it is born from my mental health issues and therefore even more worse sensory intolerance.

When I got better mental health, which took years for it to happen, the misophonia, along with many intolerances, were gone.


Never truly learnt how to cope with having misophonia.
Only that I learnt how to stop having misophonia myself.

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What Is Misophonia?

Thanks for posting that definition ^. It's exactly what I would have said. I have rage attacks from quiet or repetitive sounds as described, and I have the kind related to movement. They both set me off, even in my own home. If my kids are walking back and forth past me doing laundry or something I can go into meltdown mode. If anyone is using the kitchen to cook I need to go two floors away and wear noise cancelling headphones just so I won't hear cutlery clanging or oven buttons beeping. Right now my daughter is elephant-footing in her bedroom above me and I'm ready to lose my brains so I have to go walk the dog with headphones on, in the rain no doubt. That's better than hearing footsteps which anyone else would disregard. My worst noise is crinkle from packaging, or even paper bags. I nearly decked my mother once for playing with a paper bag in the car when we had picked up one of her prescription medications. I really can't deal with crinkle. I'd honestly prefer to be shot by firing squad than hear it for even five minutes.

Idk I think I have features of that, but also light can bother me to. Like getting into adulthood I am better at handling unpleasant noise and light I don't like, but it still does bother me.