Misophonia.

[pseudomonas]

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.

Comments

[pseudomonas]

I thought I was too until I realised that it was actually making me panicky, and it kinda clicked that it might be the same kind of aversion I've seen other people have to eating noises.

[hatam_soferet]

Another tool in the arsenal of How To Wind You Up, great!