‘On Misophonia, Hyperosmia, and other fun syndromes’
God bless the New York Times. In just one issue (yesterday’s) there were articles about annoying noises driving people nuts, kids developing allergies because their parents didn’t feed them nuts, and one about couples married over 65 years having more sex than younger couples. Which is probably driving researchers nuts.
Now, these are all topics dear to my heart. But I feel I just have to start with the Noise Thing.
As one says when one is diagnosed with Misophonia, ‘at least I am not alone’
It seems that researchers have identified a syndrome called Misophonia (‘hatred of sound’), which means, basically, that certain ‘selective sounds’ drive certain people, um, batty. The Times specifically mentions lip smacking, swallowing and ‘breathing sounds’. Don’t you just love that this is a ‘syndrome’?