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[Stradawhovious]

Well as your first posts said, you wanted to hang with the cool kids on the leaderboard and you are! But you are the bottom and who knows how close the next person is. So, I think you are gonna have to put in some hours today. Postwhore yourself up a couple spots and get this thread to 12,000 posts.

Meh... You underestimate just how lazy I can be.

 

[limr14]

I have a very mild case of misophonia; just certain noises that keep going and, like you mention, a certain quality to a person's voice that can trigger it for me. Unfortunately, my office is right next to one of those "trigger" voices, and even though we have actual offices with walls, he's so loud that once it triggers, I cannot possibly tune him out.

My sister, one of my nieces and an aunt all have pretty major cases--they have a LOT of trigger noises, even the sound of someone chewing (WITH their mouth closed!).
I know, from my mild episodes, how annoying it has to be to deal with that much of the time--but it's also annoying as all-get-out being around people who think your breathing is too loud.

Mine is like your niece and aunt. Chewing noises are probably my worst trigger. It's not everyone, thankfully, otherwise I'd have to break up with Buzz!

The thing that makes it worse in a way is that I don't actually tell anyone because as you said, who wants to hear, "God, could you not, like, breathe so loud? So rude!" I know it's not their issue, it's mine. Sometimes I will tell people when they are not eating and just I'll just talk generally, and almost always, they'll say something like, "So do I trigger this for you?" and that's my "in" to say, "Well, yeah, and it's not your fault, but please don't be offended when I have to put my headphones on when you eat!"

What's awful is that I am friends with one of the coordinators that I work with at my admin job, and her chewing triggers me Big.Time. I mean, the girl talks with food in her mouth all the time. And her laugh really gets me too. Of course, she's the kind of person who laughs at everything - not just a chuckle, but the full on wheezing cackle. So I hear her laugh a LOT when I'm at that job.

 

[Gary A.]

Well as your first posts said, you wanted to hang with the cool kids on the leaderboard and you are! But you are the bottom and who knows how close the next person is. So, I think you are gonna have to put in some hours today. Postwhore yourself up a couple spots and get this thread to 12,000 posts.

Meh... You underestimate just how lazy I can be.

Or overestimates how lazy you can be.

 

[Gary A.]

Morning Leaderboarders.

 

[limr14]

Morning Gary! Except I have to leave for work soon, so I'll say See ya later! at the same time

 

[Gary A.]

I listen a lot to talk radio, especially when in the car. It is a conversation, they speak and I talk back.

 

[Gary A.]

Morning Gary! Except I have to leave for work soon, so I'll say See ya later! at the same time

Morning Leo.

 

[Gary A.]

I want a cinnamon roll.

 

[Gary A.]

I have to go to a funeral this morning. An old childhood friend. Cancer.

 

[Gary A.]

He and my cousin both joined the Navy together. That's tight.

 

[Gary A.]

After I realize that Talk Radio isn't listening to me, I turn on NPR.

 

[sm4him]

I have to go to a funeral this morning. An old childhood friend. Cancer.

I wish there was a "dislike" button instead of just a "disagree." Sorry; that's always hard.

 

[Gary A.]

I have to go to a funeral this morning. An old childhood friend. Cancer.

I wish there was a "dislike" button instead of just a "disagree." Sorry; that's always hard.

Thanks Sharon. We weren't very close, haven't seen him in decades. He was a couple years older than I. My attendance may be as much out of respect for my cousin and as a representation of the family as it is for Bruce.

 

[Gary A.]

Streaming Bill Handel.

 

[sm4him]

Chili cookoff time! Back in a few hours…unless I have to strangle B5 Boss, in which case, I may need bail money before I can get back to postwhoring.