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misophonia is worse

nails on a blackboard are not a trigger for me, it's an awful screeching sound and it makes my skin crawl but it is not a misophonia trigger

when my misphonia triggers, as the person above said - my entire body goes into fight, flight, or freeze, in that order too. My first instinct is to want to stop the source of the sound with force, but it's rather socially unacceptable to punch people who are just eating and talking at the same time, so flight kicks in, but then it's rude to get up and leave mid-christmas dinner, so i just freeze, and want to scream and cry because at that point my mind cannot focus on anything else but that one sound. It's the loudest thing in my head constantly winding up my body to do something anything to stop it or just not have to hear it anymore.

i've settled on at least telling my family to not make my trigger sounds around me, oftentimes i've been told i'm "rude" for doing that too :| it's seemingly incredibly difficult for them to understand that i'd like to feel nice at family gatherings too, and one thing they'd have to "sacrifice" to make that happen is talking with their mouths full of food

if a stranger makes any trigger sounds i just leave, i rarely care enough to put myself through the whole "you can't tell me what to do also you're being rude and i don't care" thing so I suffer through it and dip at the soonest opportunity

It's the difference between 'this annoys me' and 'this drives me into an uncontrollable emotional response'

My first major ASD hint was when I found out overwhelming smells don't make most people angry