information about misophonia
some behaviours that i’ve personally experienced and seen before:
- trying to cover ears with hair
- abrupt head movements, like theyre trying to shake the sound out of their head
- trying to covertly cover their ears with their hands without looking rude or strange
- nervously tapping any surface they can find
- mimicking a sound someone is making (like chewing louder than you)
- shooting glares or frightened glances in sound’s direction (even if its not a person making the noise)
- wish they were deaf (i was one of them for a long time)
- carry headphones everywhere
- are very good at hiding their distress
- take anxiety medication
- misophonia triggers the fight or flight response
- most reactions to trigger sounds are involuntary
- most (if not all) of us have an involuntary muscle twitch somewhere on our body when we hear our trigger noises. it can be literally anywhere
- cannot be helped by desensitization (has been recorded to make it worse)
- even thinking about noises can cause them to develop into triggers
- we’re not supposed to read up about other triggers because it can cause us to develop them
- a lot of us also have misokinesia (which is a visual version of misophonia)
- reading about misokinesia can cause you to develop misokinesia (i learned this the hard way. whoops)
- it is not caused by trauma
- it’s a neurological disorder (meaning it’s the wiring in our brain)
- it rears its ugly head around the time puberty starts
- is a lifetime disorder that gets worse with age
- and literally almost no one knows about it
edit: I created a support blog for those who suffer with Misophonia and want to talk about it. [Here’s the link.]
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