Welcome to the wonderful world of a misophone

With my laptop on my lap and a liter of coffee in my left hand, I was on the train to Maastricht. I do this every now and then. By the way, it's a lot of fun, just look here just. I then visit my dear mother again. No problem at all, that world trip. Two hours of typing, making a few phone calls and you're there. But when it's busy, and someone is pressing against you with a wide backside for a hundred and fifty minutes OR worse: someone is sitting in front of you working through a fragrant cone of fries, it becomes a different story. I want to talk to you about that deviation that I have. It's quite serious. Misophonia, the terror when someone next to you is smacking on a lollipop and the person in question pulls the device out of her mouth every five seconds with chewed nail-biting fingers. Girlfriend, believe me, I would love to snatch that thing out of her hands and throw it through the carriage at that moment. And the worst part is: I.CAN'T.DO.ANYTHING.ABOUT.IT. Lady with the lollipop, I.HATE.YOU.

Welcome to the wonderful world of a misophone. The above scene is hell on earth. Literally, miso means hate in Greek and phonia means sound. What you find somewhat annoying to hear, we misophones find disgusting.

Let me catch you up. Because thank goodness I'm far from the only one who boils with rage at such a moment. In the AMC, over four hundred misophones have already been treated and the waiting list counts almost two hundred misophones. On average, five people report to the hospital's reception every week.

Biting into a chip, chewing on a Smint, sucking on a lollipop, slurping soup, biting on a sour candy, the crackling foil of that bag of popcorn, and I could go on like this for a while. Do you feel a slight panic in your head when someone in your vicinity performs one of the above scenarios? Then you can join my club of misophones. Still in doubt? Just watch this. And ALWAYS make sure to have a pair of earplugs in your bag and a Spotify account on your phone. There. That needed to come out.