Metal sounds--especially scraping, but to a lesser extent clanking--give me a fight or flight response. Fortunately, it's not too strong. I can usually just step away and settle down pretty easily.
But I spent probably two decades not really having a name for the feeling. It was really comforting to discover that there was actual research into the topic, even if so far there hasn't really been any progress on fixing it. The biggest help has been that my partner bought wooden utensils for us to use at home. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
This article is just the right length, imho: I appreciated the deep dive into a condition no one around me understands, as well as your willingness to tolerate the current ambiguity and unknowns about misophonia. Extremely helpful.
Interesting that eating together should be so central. One of the few things that really gets to me is having to watch somebody eat with their mouth open.
Very interesting essay. My first thought is that misophonia might not be best viewed as a reaction to sound per se but as a symptom of aversion, like a kind of allergy or a psychic autoimmune disorder. If so, then you might get more insight out of a general theory of aversion than by studying how the brain generates sound.
This article was so long it became ridiculous. In the end this could have been cut at least in half to keep the very point of the article. I think many people like to flex their writing muscles and get lost.
Very interesting read.
Metal sounds--especially scraping, but to a lesser extent clanking--give me a fight or flight response. Fortunately, it's not too strong. I can usually just step away and settle down pretty easily.
But I spent probably two decades not really having a name for the feeling. It was really comforting to discover that there was actual research into the topic, even if so far there hasn't really been any progress on fixing it. The biggest help has been that my partner bought wooden utensils for us to use at home. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
This article is just the right length, imho: I appreciated the deep dive into a condition no one around me understands, as well as your willingness to tolerate the current ambiguity and unknowns about misophonia. Extremely helpful.
Interesting that eating together should be so central. One of the few things that really gets to me is having to watch somebody eat with their mouth open.
Very interesting essay. My first thought is that misophonia might not be best viewed as a reaction to sound per se but as a symptom of aversion, like a kind of allergy or a psychic autoimmune disorder. If so, then you might get more insight out of a general theory of aversion than by studying how the brain generates sound.
This article was so long it became ridiculous. In the end this could have been cut at least in half to keep the very point of the article. I think many people like to flex their writing muscles and get lost.