Misophonia

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Do any of you have or suspect that you have misophonia? It's said to be rare, but I'm not sure if it is more prominent among people who have ASDs. Here's a quick, concise description of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
I just found out about it earlier this week and I probably felt kind of like some of you adults with AS felt when you first read about AS. I knew that I had problems with sounds, but not exactly what the problems may be caused by. I have pretty severe problems with sounds, and I've had to miss school over anxiety and exasperation associated with them. I'm going to see the psychiatrist later this month to see what she suggests...

Anyways, just curious if any of you have similar issues.

I'm not certain if it is full misophonia with me, but there are certain sounds that I dislike more than others. My mother's abnormally loud sneezes are on that list and the very high-pitched sound some older TV-sets give off when they are in standby mode but not actually operating. To other sounds I am even more indifferent than most people around me. For example, an unexpected loud crash or boom in a public situation will hardly make me flinch in most cases even though I see other people give a start when I hear that sound.

I am not much bothered by this though as most sounds I am particularly sensitive to are sounds that occur infrequently or don't usually last for long.

I have it big time. It drives me crazy sometimes. I'm not sure I have an ASD. I score positive on the tests but I also have performance anxiety (SAD). I'm still trying to figure out if I only have SAD or I have both?

i definitely only have sensitivitty to certain sounds and usually unexpected ones. this is interesting.

i get this intense 'wave' come over me and sometimes it feels like the sound has pennetrated my brain as a pressure. Stress makes it worse

I have mild tinnitus.

Few certain sounds I despise, but doesn't sound like I have it.

Wow. My mother definitely has this. There are a lot of sound triggers that I learned to avoid so I wouldn't annoy her.

I, on the other hand, love sounds that annoy most people. I like noise music. But I am very annoyed by the sound of someone chewing with their mouth open. That's really the only sound that annoys me that I can think of.

My mother once told me she was surprised to notice that the sound of bricks and large stones clicking and sliding against each other was strangely pleasant, even though its something she would expect to be annoyed by.

wait, this isn't normal?
Its why I prefer to work in a cubical farm where its all noise instead of having an office mate where its these distinct sounds.

Makes it really hard for me to concentrate, and I get enraged a bit, but it makes no sense to me why it bothers me so.

I don't understand why it's almost always human sounds and particularly people close to me (usually worse). It's like my own system is forcing me not to get very close to people. I also have a dislike of hugging and some other feel-good activities. I think it's because of this:

"The result might be that avoidance of social proximity would become the default coping mechanism for some individuals with autism. One person with high-functioning autism has described “instinctive attempts to correct a feeling of having been ‘engulfed’ ”. She explained that “when my sense of ‘existence of other’ . . . became too intense, I felt . . . swept up and lost in it but also suffocated”."

http://cogprints.org/6799/1/TPRVol59No3-SMITH.pdf

Any sound a human makes is irritating. Even when they just move around.

Yes. Eating sounds and mouth sounds in general. EURRGH.

On very rare occasions as a child, the sound of white chalk on a classroom chalkboard would be (momentarily) most irritating.

at military funerals, i am the only one who flinches at the rifle salute. i cannot suppress this reaction no matter how hard i try, it is automatic. loud noises in general make my heart jump out of my chest, and my heart is thumping violently for several minutes after each sonic eruption. vacuum cleaners and 2-stroke engines i cannot abide, and must wear hearing protection when such are in full cry. my late father could not stand screaming, and could be disquietingly abrupt, with strangers accompanied by their screaming children in public.

now i wonder, is there a link between misophonia and a seemingly linked visual equivalent disorder, in which there are certain complex visual stimuli which also evoke a visceral reaction? my late mother absolutely could not stand the sight of things like massed birds in flight or numerous steam bubbles on cookware, such would make her cringe.

Agree, I think they put a name on something that is actually quite common and normal. Everyone I know has misophonia.

I can get very aggravated at certain noises. Sometimes I really cannot stand to hear them or even if there is a possibility of hearing them. I spend a lot of time with headphones on. But I am not sure it is as severe as is described in the article. But noise definately affects my life.

It sounds like trypophobia--it's a fear of seeing things in clusters, especially clusters of holes. I researched it a while ago and a lot of the trypophobics online mention being freaked out by bubbles at the edge of a boiling surface.

Me, perhaps a mild version, but not enough to call it a disorder. Really, mostly I don't like chaotic sound. Which may be something different.