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Misophonia is real, as I can attest as yet another of your siblings who has it. Slurping drinks (or noodles!) is the worst. Chomping on an apple, or popcorn, or potato chips... the crackling of candy wrappers... I could go on. I met a woman at a retreat who was sitting in the back; I invited her to join us at our table and she said she couldn't — she told me she had misophonia and had to sit in the back in case she had to leave in a hurry. I told her I understood.

When I worked in cubicle-ville I used to wear earplugs AND noise-cancelling headphones with the loudest white noise I could tolerate to try to muffle my cubicle neighbors eating their lunches. It's awful to feel such anger toward innocent people — and even worse when it's a loved one. Ugh. I was so happy to learn that it was "a thing" and not just me being irritable. Even the slight hearing loss I have in one ear hasn't diminished my misophonia. I can hear someone crunching an apple at 100 paces. :-(

Next on the genetic curiosity list: face blindness. Several of us siblings have a degree of this. I wonder if it's related to misophonia. Hmmmm.

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