Do you get annoyed with people's 'eating noises'?

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I get these violent urges when around people that smack/suck fingers/etc.I want to beat the s**t out of them. I know I am being irrational and the feelings usually subside after they stop, but I can't seem to stop myself from getting all riled up inside while it happens. I never act on these urges, but I have snapped at people before.

i am so. effing. glad that my family all grew up eating at different times and eventually, after my siblings moved away, in different rooms. i could not freaking stand it if i had to listen to that crap. like in those everyone-around-the-table-not-talking kind of families. i'd go postal.

it's why i can't sit in the tiny, windowless breakroom at work, which is bad enough w/o eating. everyone sitting in there, no noise, radio, tv to cover it up, all silently chewing, scraping, sucking, licking together in this deafeningly uncomfortable silence, all facing each other. ultimate formula for a meltdown. there's one girl who, whenever she eats anything crumby, will keep licking her finger and pressing it to every crumb that falls ON THE TABLE. and eating it. the dirty, communal, germy, TABLE.

i heard an episode of This American Life once on NPR (at least i think it was TAL), where one segment was about two siblings whose father ate so disgustingly sloppily and noisly, and with such gusto, they wanted him to die. they were not allowed to leave the table, everyone had to time their eating around his, they could never enjoy a meal. v regressive and pack-like.

animal eating sounds though? cute. listening to my birdie eating her little seedies right now.

the noises are why I like to eat in my room instead of out in the kitchen.

I definately dislike the noises people make with their mouths when they're eating or drinking. It is definately one of my biggest pet peeves...

i didn't realize there was an entire thread devoted to this. someone else posted it as a reason for meltdown on another thread, and i thought--'that's strange. there are two of us like that.'

I do especially if they are on the phone and eating while talking on the phone... sends chills up my spine...

Nope, couldn't care less, but I do hate breathing noises.

I really hate it. Recently I've read about Selective Sound Sensivity Syndrome (4S) and it describes me perfectly. You can read about it here: http://www.soundsensitive.org/

Ugggh! My hubby is a terrible eater too. I've tried to bring it to his attention in a non-mean way and finally he realized how bad it sounds. (On top of this, I have hypersensitive hearing). Now, he tries to eat with his mouth closed when he's around me, but mostly eats in another room. This is one of the many reasons I love him.

God I hate smacking and heavy breathing during the eating process! Adults who smack their food are the worst! i correct my daughter all the time because I don't want her to one of them. Loud eating and loud kissing are a couple peeves of mine.

This bugs the HELL out of me

I always have hated to eat in public. I thought anyone who heard me eat would think I was disgusting just like I thought they were disgusting everytime I heard them eat. I cannot tolerate people who have no table manners, are sloppy and eat with their mouths open. I will not eat certain foods in public because I know I would make far too much noise trying to eat them. I hate going to people's homes to eat. I usually end up not eating much at all because I'm afraid I will be heard and I'm throughly disgusted by the amplified sounds I hear other people make when they eat. It's another reason I love to be alone when I go out to eat or to eat in my own home alone. Since I am older, I have come to understand that we're all going to make noise when we eat that other people will hear and won't always like. I just try to chew with my mouth closed and be as quiet as I can.

Yes, I leave the room when people eat. My mum thinks I'm just being fussy but erggh I would rather hear nails on a chalkboard.

Yes. But smell of food, especially of sandwiches, meat, fish or mayonnaise, is sooo much worse! I'm really smell-sensitive.

Good god, when I hear someone eating at work (in a cubicle or office), I want to punch them in the face. Go to the cafeteria.

Agreed, smells are probably even worse.

as an NT I have tried to deal with this issue with my husband for a long time. Most meals would end in fights or tears. He could not stand the sound of me eating or those around us eating. I developed such a complex over eating as i was constantly told how deafing loud I was eating while I could not hear it...I would ask others around me if I was overly loud, i even went as far as to video tape myself eating to hear the noise.

We would fight and fight as he heard the noises even though i was not smacking or chewing with my open etc. etc. We now eat in seperate rooms which works out well, however meals with family and friends still tends to be stressful...but I suppose it is easier on the occasion than every day.

Glad to hear he is not alone with his eating adversion, super sonic hearing!!