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For me at least, context and consent are two big things that can make or break me.
My wife absolutely cannot stand my desire to listen to the radio at barely audible volume. She said it’s nails on a chalkboard. It forces her brain to process that which cannot be processed at this volume.
yeah same here, that, people whispering, and someone attempting to talk to me when a loud noise is happening nearby drive me insane and make me want to throw chairs
Agreed. Words that you know you could understand but can’t because it’s just a little bit too quiet are just AHHH.
I have pretty bad misophonia. It’s only really triggered by certain sounds (sand paper and chewing being the biggest offenders) but when it happens I literally go into fight or flight mode and freak the fuck out. I am a machinist by trade and needing to avoid sand paper at all costs really affects my life severely.
I’m probably neurotypical and I don’t get how people like me don’t understand misophonia
Almost everyone experiences misophonia. It’s rare to not be upset by the sound of fingernails on blackboards and similar sounds; what’s so odd about some people having a wider range of problem sounds?
It’s the difference between ‘this annoys me’ and ‘this drives me into an uncontrollable emotional response’
My first major ASD hint was when I found out overwhelming smells don’t make most people angry
misophonia is worse
nails on a blackboard are not a trigger for me, it’s an awful screeching sound and it makes my skin crawl but it is not a misophonia trigger
when my misphonia triggers, as the person above said - my entire body goes into fight, flight, or freeze, in that order too. My first instinct is to want to stop the source of the sound with force, but it’s rather socially unacceptable to punch people who are just eating and talking at the same time, so flight kicks in, but then it’s rude to get up and leave mid-christmas dinner, so i just freeze, and want to scream and cry because at that point my mind cannot focus on anything else but that one sound. It’s the loudest thing in my head constantly winding up my body to do something anything to stop it or just not have to hear it anymore.
i’ve settled on at least telling my family to not make my trigger sounds around me, oftentimes i’ve been told i’m “rude” for doing that too :| it’s seemingly incredibly difficult for them to understand that i’d like to feel nice at family gatherings too, and one thing they’d have to “sacrifice” to make that happen is talking with their mouths full of food
if a stranger makes any trigger sounds i just leave, i rarely care enough to put myself through the whole “you can’t tell me what to do also you’re being rude and i don’t care” thing so I suffer through it and dip at the soonest opportunity
I literally cannot watch minutephysics videos on YouTube because of the amount of mouth noise when he speaks. Even if I force myself to watch them I just absorb nothing because I just fixate on the mouth noise. It’s baffling to me that so many people not only don’t seem to mind, but don’t even notice it in the first place.
Oooooh i relate so bad. Im not neurodivergent in any way but i am really sensory. It is a strange thing. My hearing and vision are extreme and my taste and touch are pretty good. My nose on the other hand is horrible, im always the last to notice smells. Its kinda sad that nobody talks about these seperate from autism. When my mom(a doctor) started researching about why i seemed to be scared of loud noises and why i always cried in the car when someone played loud music she only found german literature which was a big limitation because she only spoke fluent english and hungarian but youd guess the english would be usefull here but turns out most countries discouraged research into it(btw i still dont know the english name of it, in hungarian its túlhallás literally meaning over-hearing). In the end she found an expert in the capital who did research and helped other people with this condition in his FREETIME because everybody ignores it. Turns out my hearing is on par with a dogs in some frequencies and in every frequency he measured it was in like top 1% at least. On some frequencies my hearing capped out the specialised machine 💀. I dont know the measurments but my hearing is someting like 50x better than what most hearing testers measure and more than 100x better than whats still considered healthy. He said i was the most extreme case he ever saw but its still sad that 20-30x hearing is still kinda common especially among kids and people just say man-up to them when they experience extreme pain. In reality my hearing is worse than most people because ususally you dont have conversations in noise sealed rooms but in busy placed where the sounds of cars, other people, etc literally blow out anything that i actually want to hear. Noise-cancelling headphones are a blessing, i use mine on the lowest volume and even set the volume to low on spotify and thats comfortable. Most people cant even make out that im listening to music when they try my headphones.
TLDR: i have a hearing condition that makes me hear extremely well and almost all medical literature ignores the existence of it and loud noises cause me physical pain thats worse than getting kicked in the balls
Daym. With there must be a career somewhere in out there that you’d be godlike at using such superhuman hearing. Something like detecting minute faults in (otherwise silent) devices or smt.
That person might be able to hear termites through walls unironically. There’s devises we use but they’re not 100 percent cause they’re so sensitive they pick up planes far away that most people can’t hear. This person could probably differentiate between a far plane and termites scuttling around. They’re very quiet, AFAIK no normal human can hear them.
Safe cracking
Hah that’s a good one
