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pseudomonas) wrote2014-03-21 08:19 pm
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Misophonia.
I wonder if my reaction to sniffing noises constitutes misophonia*. Basically, the sound of someone sitting there sniffling (for instance when they have a cold but no tissues) brings out approximately the same level of reaction in me as the sound of someone retching continuously does in (as I understand it) more or less everyone. Headphones & loud music are quite useful when it's a colleague sitting at the next desk :(
*Not to be confused with misophagia, which is eating tasty tasty fermented soya and rice paste.
*Not to be confused with misophagia, which is eating tasty tasty fermented soya and rice paste.
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Personally, I find the sound of someone retching continuously deeply unpleasant, but different in kind from as well as milder than a misophonia reaction (and sniffing is one of my big triggers). But everyone's different, and misophonia hasn't been studied very much at all.
If I had to compare misophonia to any kind of more common reaction to noise, it would be to fingernails scraping down a blackboard, but it's not quite like that either.
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Sniffling: hit 6 on that scale today, which was what made me wonder. I'm not after a medical diagnosis, just interested in the phenomenon.
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