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March 13, 2015

"Misophonia"

A condition with which certain sounds can drive someone into a burst of rage or disgust.
A 2013 study by Arjan Schroder and his colleagues at the University of Amsterdam identified the most common irritants as eating sounds, including lip smacking and swallowing; breathing sounds, such as nostril noises and sneezing; and hand sounds, such as typing and pen clicking. The range of responses to these noises is broad, from irritation to disgust to anger. Some sufferers even respond with verbal or physical aggression to those making the noises. One woman reported wanting to strangle her boyfriend in response to his chewing. Please Stop Making That Noise

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 13, 2015 10:33 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Rap and hip-hop do it for me.

Posted by: Jack [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 10:53 AM

I've heard Dan Rathers voice is responsible for hundreds of flying beer mugs destroying TV's.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 11:07 AM

And yet somehow they failed to identify the incessant woomp-woomp-THUD, woomp-woomp-THUD of rock "music", the primary source of air pollution over the last half-century.

Astonishing.

Posted by: Rob De Witt [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 12:05 PM

I hate the sound of my wife saying, "Sex? Ha!" I get a lot of sarcasm like that around here.

There ought to be a category called misotheaomia---hatred of beholding something.

Kim Kardashian's heinous back porch comes to mind, as does Whistlelisp Stompyfoot's mug.


Posted by: Perfessor Plum [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 1:23 PM

My favorite is people with a running nose, sniffling.
Hanging bat-like by their toes would resolve the outward leakage problem, which is something to turn your nose up at.
Don't worry about my grammar; my grampar is the problem.

Posted by: Stug Guts [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 4:13 PM

The sound of teeth hitting the floor like Chiclets after a good hard punch in the face would ameliorate the annoying sounds.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 7:33 PM

"identified the most common irritants as eating sounds, including lip smacking and swallowing; breathing sounds, such as nostril noises and sneezing; and hand sounds, such as typing and pen clicking."

I get all of these sounds all day every day from my olde English bulldogge. Paw sounds of clicking from his nails on the hardwood floor or his bones or rawhide chews mimic the 'hand sounds' mentioned above.
Oh and farting, bulldogs fart a lot. Nasty eye-watering smell of burned hair/fetid swamp farts.

He has taught me so much about patience I almost feel like a saint.

Posted by: Speller [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 13, 2015 9:42 PM

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