Re: Re: Misophonia in the past

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I am 53. MY first Misophonia memory is around 9 or 10. I was not silent. I have never been silent. I have developed more tact as an adult but I let everyone know. I tell the person behind me in the theater and I tell the finger snappers and the gum whores and the chip crunchers. I am guessing about 75% of the time people react well. In college I had someone bite a cracker right in my ear after I told her. Snuck up and crunched it my ear. I punched her in the nose. I may not have been popular with her for a few days but she never did it again. THe only time I have been violent. I had never encountered another sufferer until 7 years ago.

It was there. Just so widely scattered and early ingrained into the minds of suffered, that they were 'crazy' or 'weird', that it drove the need to share deep into the land of shame, so deep that even as adults, this population has trouble sharing with family and friends.

Some have kept it as a secret agony for over 50 years.

If it was discussed, it was assigned to anxiety or phobia. Assigned as a mental illness, an emotional disturbance.

Perfectly normal children, suddenly lost in a world of shame, who could not find any support or understanding for their situaions. Those intelligent children simple disappear into themselves and decide they are fundamentally flawed. It is a goal to open up that can of worms and let the light enter.

Not your fault, not your blame, not a shame.

A recognizable medical condition, a physiological shift, not a psychological choice.

Dr. Marsha

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> Despite extensive reading of the old medical literature, I do not recall finding any mention of misophonic symptoms, nor has anyone provided a reference when I raised this matter previously. However, I have just come across this in J Child Neurol 2008;23;676:-- Professor Ernst Gellhorn had two pet peeves, students who yawned or chewed gum.

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[Guest guest]

Wowzers. I wanna be on your team!

I am 53. MY first Misophonia memory is around 9 or 10. I was not silent. I have never been silent. I have developed more tact as an adult but I let everyone know. I tell the person behind me in the theater and I tell the finger snappers and the gum whores and the chip crunchers. I am guessing about 75% of the time people react well. In college I had someone bite a cracker right in my ear after I told her. Snuck up and crunched it my ear. I punched her in the nose. I may not have been popular with her for a few days but she never did it again. THe only time I have been violent. I had never encountered another sufferer until 7 years ago.

It was there. Just so widely scattered and early ingrained into the minds of suffered, that they were 'crazy' or 'weird', that it drove the need to share deep into the land of shame, so deep that even as adults, this population has trouble sharing with family and friends.

Some have kept it as a secret agony for over 50 years.

If it was discussed, it was assigned to anxiety or phobia. Assigned as a mental illness, an emotional disturbance.

Perfectly normal children, suddenly lost in a world of shame, who could not find any support or understanding for their situaions. Those intelligent children simple disappear into themselves and decide they are fundamentally flawed. It is a goal to open up that can of worms and let the light enter.

Not your fault, not your blame, not a shame.

A recognizable medical condition, a physiological shift, not a psychological choice.

Dr. Marsha

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> Despite extensive reading of the old medical literature, I do not recall finding any mention of misophonic symptoms, nor has anyone provided a reference when I raised this matter previously. However, I have just come across this in J Child Neurol 2008;23;676:-- Professor Ernst Gellhorn had two pet peeves, students who yawned or chewed gum.

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