How do u cope with sounds? Eg loud eating, snoring etc

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No, I literally mean that I listen to brown noise generators to block out background noises.

I generally hate it when people disturb the peace. I do understand the hatred of specific sounds though. Magpie calls are particularly hateful for me. They cackle in call and response for absolutely ages. Also hooligans who mod their cars and rev them. Obnoxious voice types/language usage too particularly if I have to live in close proximity.

Me too. I was relieved mostly. I always thought I was the only one on the planet. I just bought ear defenders 30 db and wear them over 33 db foam earplugs or over my MP3 music earplugs so I can listen to music that relaxes me. So now I have to just get used to hearing my internal sounds like my heartbeat and my body moving but that is not nearly as bad as the external sounds. The internal sounds are still hard to deal with but easier than the externals. It's either that or stick my fingers in my ears hard. And I had to vow years ago that I would never own a fire arm. Those of you fellow Misophonics know what I mean.

I have a way of spacing out and going into my own world that makes it a little easier to block out noises, but I can't do that if I have to interact with people, or if I'm trying to concentrate on something like reading or taking a test...basically if I do anything that involves verbal processing, it brings the irritating sounds back up to full volume. If I stop using words, stop talking and stop thinking in words, sounds don't bother me so much.

JOKE ALERT...I was going to answer, I just kill the people who are making the sounds so they never do it again but I know that's not a nice thing to joke about and of course I would never do that. It's just what I feel like doing sometimes.

I have mentally blown up so many cars driving by playing loud bass it's ridiculous. I know that I can't really kill them and I never would. I am not the kind of person to have it in me to kill someone but I mentally blow up their car stereos! It makes me feel better.

Some of the things you mentioned drive me crazy too. It makes me want to smack the person in the mouth when I hear them doing it. I hear people snorting their snot on the subway all the time, and it's disgusting. I also hate it when someone has a runny nose, and they sit there, constantly sniffling. GET A TISSUE!! This is the 21st century. You don't have to go far to get a tissue. What drives me crazy is in the winter when people get on the subway, and they have a runny nose, and they just sit there, constantly sniffling. You know it gets cold in the winter. You know that cold makes your nose runny. BRING SOME TISSUES!! It's not that difficult, people.

I also hate it when people jingle their keys. It hurts my ears. The beep on the microwave also hurts my ears. I usually stand near the microwave so I can press stop when it gets to 1 second, so it doesn't beep. I told my brother once, that the beep on the microwave hurts my ears, and he looked at me like I had 2 heads.

To deal with annoying noises, I have a set of noise cancelling earphones. It's such a huge relief when I put my earphones in my ears and turn on my favourite music so I don't have to listen to the annoying noise anymore. I literally feel my whole body relax. The ones I have are made by Cresyn (these ones). They work pretty well. You can really only hear really loud noises over the music.

People eating doesn't seem to annoy me, but I know plenty of other sounds that do. I try to get out of the house on a Saturday because Saturday mornings are usually hectic in my house because that's when relatives come round (then they usually go out in the afternoon). But this week I haven't gone out because I was told there will be a lot of traffic hold-ups and delays today because of a carnival going on in one of the big towns, and my bus comes from there and I know that will be held up, plus things like carnivals and fairs attract noisy little kids and big crowds of teenagers, so I planned to stay out of the way today. Plus it's wet and I can't be bothered to wait for buses that might be late. But staying home was a mistake too. If it wasn't for my brother I would socialise with my family, but today my brother's in an irritating mood where he criticises everybody and keeps yelling ''why are you so miserable?'' so me, even though most of the time he's the miserable one. I'm not exactly miserable, I'm just a bit withdrawn because everybody's in and out of rooms and it's all agitating me. I am waiting for them to go out soon (which they will).

Noises what are annoying me today:-

-My brother's loud yawns (an unpredictable and unnecessary din)
-My cat miawing (she has an annoying miaw and is always following someone around miawing, and my brother encourages it more)
-People chattering from the next room, due to doors being left open and people in and out
-The kettle roaring from the kitchen (because everybody has to have like 4 cups of tea in less than an hour)
-The TV murmuring loudly but nobody actually watching it or intending to turn it down

At home, I struggle with people chewing with their mouths open, and talking with their mouth full. What I do is tap my utensils on my plate (trying to be discrete). I would hope thet that would give a clue. The one person that it bothers me the most (my father) said that I could tell him and it will not hurt his feelings, but I still feel like it could be impolite if I said something. I love my family, but this is a big down side to me.

i'm not easily annoyed by noises that much anymore, i live in a quiet household in a fairly quiet neighborhood for a very long time now and I've gotten used to everything long ago.
I used to have problems when my parents used the vacuum or the food processor which were loud and scared me, but i think since i turned 18, bought a gun and started going to the range (which is full of extremely loud noises) i was able to get over most of my issues with noises.

the one thing that does drive me nuts is loud birds outside, specifically the mockingbirds. they fill me with fear because they'd often sing at night so loudly there's no way to get away from it, even with window closed and ear plus in. i can't sleep, eat, work or rest when its around and the frequency of their sounds irritate my ear drums super badly. i don't have issues with other birds. the frequencies of the mockingbird drive me nuts.
in the past i have killed them with either my dad's pellet gun (before i was 18) or .22 (after i was 18)
lately I've just been shooting them with my airsoft gun. doesn't kill them but teaches them a lesson never to be around my house! last couple days however I've found they've connected my open window = pain, so all i gotta do is open my window and they won't hang around.

Listening to repetitive music over and over again for several hours a day with earphones helps me. Don't know if this is desensitization or stimming though. Maybe both?

I still have a heard time not becoming visibly annoyed though. If it something the other person can help or stop doing and if it bothers me enough that I will snap, I try to ask hem to stop in a polite way by being casual about it or passing it off as humorous so they don't get hurt or so they understand I am not "disliking" them for it. Depending on who it is and the situation I might explain why it bothers me, especially when it is my kids or husband or someone I see frequently or need to maintain an "open" relationship with.

Unexpected car horns make me jump out of my skin sometimes and so does my mobile phone when I get text alerts, the vibrate on my phone can make me jump some times and so does somebody touching me unexpectedly it feels like I've been hit all through my body. When I hear the screech from somebody's shoe on the vinyl floor is like electric sometimes the same for scratching plates. Alarms that are so loud there is a droning whirring sound in my head, the classic alarm clock that goes eurgg eurgg eurgg eurgg Or the one's that go be be be beep Be be be beep. Those are the kind of alarms that will certainly start me off on a bad day

When I want it to be quiet and I need to really concentrate the slightest sound can irritate me and I can loose my train of thought that makes me feel annoyed I felt like an old married couple with my dog for which I feel sorry for because it's not his fault and slightly concerned with the married bit but sometimes when he licks his lips or even breaths drives me crazy. I do like my dog he is my best friend.

Turning up the stereo at my own discretion usually helps drown out unwanted background noise, it can make me feel calm too depending what music I listen too, if I need peace and quiet though sometimes music does not help to concentrate. the only way is silence, and that means to resort to somewhere quieter. As for crowds and public places the MP3 player comes in really handy to block out all the noise. Mmmmmmmmmm music

The dogs upstairs have been driving me nuts, so I put this on to block them out:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7Jwrg0but8&feature=kp[/youtube]
Works wonders. Not recommended for listeners unaccustomed to extremely loud, distorted white noise.

I have problems with what I call "echo-ey" places. Hard acoustics may be more correct, but I don't even know if that's right. Specifically, rooms with hard floors, and walls so that all the little sounds bounce off of everything. Kind of like a cave or a public bathroom. I hear all the little sounds in rooms like this, pants swishing as a person walks, breathing, clocks ticking, a cat walking... etc, and it drives nuts. I will not visit anybody that has removed the carpet in there homes. I must have carpet or rugs or anything to absorb sound.

That's what it feels like for me, too. Sudden noises, even if they're not very loud, will sometimes make me jump, and it's a shock to my body the same way it would be if someone hit you.



Me too. Which makes it really difficult when I have to take a test in a huge room full of about 50 other students. Inevitably, someone will start sniffling, or making some other annoying noise, which makes it harder for me to concentrate, and I feel like I sometimes make stupid mistakes on the test because of it, and get questions wrong that I know the answer to.

This seems to be similar to what can happen with some kinds of cannabis. This is probably the same thing that can make you appreciate music in a different way. It's probably a good thing, that your senses are more sensitive, more open. You'll enjoy the finer, more subtle things in art and life in general. Less discos, more cello quartets. No?