Apparently there are people - 1 in 5 in fact - who cannot abide the sound of other people's eating. The sound of chewing, slurping, sniffing, even breathing, can drive them into a rage. It's not just finding it annoying; it's having to leave a room, or being scared to catch a train in case the person who takes the seat next to you is 'noisy'.
It's called misophonia, this hatred of particular noises.
If Husband and I have three children, and statistically it's 1 in 5 that should mean one of us could be a sufferer. I've never knowingly met anyone with it. Have you?
Hmm, also apparently sufferers aren't taken seriously, and others treat their condition as a joke, deliberately slurping extra noisily.
How have I lived so long and never heard of this before?
And now Husband is blaming me because his suggested reads on google feature parsnip recipes. It's a cunning ploy by those fiendishly cunning Welsh parsnip growers, I tell you.
Oh yes, I knew there was something else.
Mini has different modes of driving settings. You can have normal, exciting, and green. I've been using the Green one recently. The main difference is that it encourages me to change up a gear sooner than I would normally. I think it's a petrol-saving plan but I wouldn't swear to that.
Anyway if I'm not driving in a green way it puts little pictures on the dashboard. Hang on and I'll draw them for you. The top one, I suppose, is self-explanatory. I'll leave you to work out what the other one means. I have no idea.
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Did your Mini just send you a dick pic?
Yes, I know someone with misophonia: Hunky Husband. I've had to walk on eggshells around him for all of our lives together. I must put a door between us in order to eat an apple or a stick of celery. Although I've tried to minimize HH's exposure to my sounds, I find it darned annoying. Please come up with a cure.
The lower image in your cartoon looks like a gear shifter to me. Perhaps it wants you to shift upward.
Great post.
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Ah, but I do love the sound of steam engines,
chew chew
Looks like it, Debra!
Oh no, that must be dreadful, CopCar. Poor things. Apparently the sufferer sometimes mimics the chewing and that helps. Does HH do that?
Ha ha, anonymous
Liz--If you knew HH, you would know that he would not try that; but, thanks for the suggestion. In his normal state, he had little to no patience; in his current state, he gets bothered, even more, over little things. He's a sweetheart, but....
My eldest son and I, can't bear the sound of other people eating noisily, slurping, chewing noisily. Chomping. ., and when they talk with food in mouth. Arghhh sends me crazy.. Oh if I have to hear them on a train. It makes me worse.
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