![]() But while you might find it a bit unpleasant, my blood starts raging. Most people don’t love the sound of cutlery on plates, or someone tapping their desk. Most people are grossed out by someone chewing with their mouth open. This is the part that is difficult to explain, because from the outside it just looks like I’m having a big tantrum about a small thing that affects everybody. Someone sitting behind me on a plane sniffling, however? That risks an international airspace incident. Sure, I don’t enjoy a baby screaming behind me on a plane, but my misophonia is not set off. I don’t get bothered by loud music or horns blasting. My misophonia triggers are hard to predict – it’s not necessarily annoying or loud noises. I was also becoming a lesbian, but I think that was unrelated. The timing was consistent with the (still minimal) research – something hinky started going on with my neuro-physiological system for some reason, and my brain and body started being triggered by certain sounds and movements. I first heard of misophonia about five years ago when my mother sent me an article, saying, “This explains everything about you since you were a weird child!” At about 13, I stopped being able to eat dinner at the table with my family, due to the scraping of cutlery on plates, the slurping of drinks, and the three growing brothers madly shovelling food into their gaping maws (in my defence, yuck). The word “misophonia” literally means “hatred of sound”, which might give the sleuths among you a clue. To understand this miraculous turnabout, you must first understand a condition I have called misophonia. But against all odds, a bright side emerged. During that time, I must admit, I still couldn’t really see many silver linings. When I caught Covid for the first time in August this year, it was gastro Covid (not as fun as it sounds), and I spent weeks with constant nausea and vomiting, simultaneously scared of and hoping for death. Overall, I don’t have too many positive things to say about the coronavirus thus far.
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