Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negative Responses to Sounds

Re:Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negat... by copymoro on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:42PM (#35317913)

that sounds really terrible.

to be a victim of your own reactions, to be aware of the irrationality of such reactions.

> I'm aware this is fundamentally a "your brain is wired different" issue

that's one way to think about it, but it doesn't seem conductive to being able to change this. Unless you believe in adult brain plasticity (and AFAIK the plasticity adult brains is still being debated)

My point is that it's a learned response, to get so pissed of about this. and that being aware is but the first step towards being able to chose how you respond to those stimuli; oh and that it's not easy and it can take a while for your new changed choices to become automatic

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Re:Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negat... by catiopatio on Sunday March 26, 2023 @03:01PM (#35318156)

> My point is that it's a learned response

What made you think it’s a learned response? It’s unequivocally not.

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Re:Nearly 20% Adults May Have Misophonia – Significant Negat... by EngManagerIsMe on Sunday March 26, 2023 @02:48PM (#35317979)

Yes and no. There's some degree of nurture here, for sure. But there's some degree of nature.

Misophonia is common in folks with autism, for instance. While there are techniques and strategies for living with autism, it's simply not something one can learn their way out of.

Some of us do have neural connections that have hard wired responses to certain stimuli.

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