So I called my mom because I have a cold and am trying to figure out how to treat it since what I have been doing didn’t seem to help, and she told me that my sister has the same cold. For whatever reason I hate sharing things with my family / being sick at the same time, so I was already upset.
I was trying to stay calm, but then my mom told me that my sister is really sick and has been out of school for three days coughing with a really bad cold. I’m so scared. Luckily for me I’m away at college and can’t hear any of it, but I can only imagine how awful it sounds (coughing is my biggest Misophonia trigger). On top of it there is a girl in my class who is extremely loud and has a tendency to cough and sneeze constantly. Like me, she has Autism, but also has a tendency to think out loud. Because of her constant noises, I’m set off a lot. I don’t tell her how I’m feeling because I know she can’t help it but it is so frustrating sometimes.
I’m so angry, I’m crying writing this because I can hear my sister’s coughs even though she’s not here, I can imagine them. Luckily I calmed down after about ten minutes of wearing earplugs. It would’ve been so much easier if my mom just didn’t tell me how bad her cold was, because now I’m all worried about getting sicker and melting down. I’ve tried to tell her not to tell me this stuff but she has ADD and has a tendency to forget. Does anyone else have a similar experience?
Oof I’m sorry… That sounds no fun at all. I definitely have misophonia about some things, mostly other people’s mouth noises. If someone near me is chewing gum, I have to exit the situation before I go nuts. Last night I was watching a movie with my kid, and one of the actors was chewing gum, and I almost couldn’t take that! Luckily for me, out of sight is mostly out of mind… Once I feel that I’m in control of my sensory input (yay ANC headphones), I can relax. That part sounds a little harder for you.
It can be hard sometimes, thank goodness for earplugs though!
I think I have misophonia too. I didn’t know that word existed before. In my case, I have a problem with breathing sounds. I hate them. When I hear them loudly, I feel intense rage :(
I am the same way, I hate breathing sounds lol
So your constellation is very unique but I can slightly relate because not being able to let go of a specific thought it’s something very common in C-PTSD. To work on this, my therapist taught me the “vault exercise” in short it’s about visualizing how you lock specific things away in a mental vault, so you can stop thinking about them for a while.
It helped me a lot! Maybe you can give it a try. Here are some further instructions.
I changed the process a little, but that was very helpful! Thank you!
<3 I was at the laundromat the other day and an ad interrupted the anodyne muzak. Something about soft laundry no doubt, but the thing that set me off was the soft-speaking closeness of it. ASMR, which I guess this was approximating, makes me feel like stabbing things.
Right, soft speaking stuff drives me crazy
