I hate the sound of someone chewing loudly. It's like a never-ending, torturous symphony of smacking and slurping that grates on my nerves. The feeling of being stuck in traffic for hours on end is something that I can't stand. It's like being trapped in a never-ending cycle of frus...
Slurping. Chewing. Smacking lips. The plethora of YouTube videos showing people eating, from Hot Ones to Mukbang to Food ASMR, can be excruciating for people who have misophonia, or a sensitivity to sound that means that certain noises others may not even notice are "highly disturbing" for...
I roam the floor, the space in front of the rows of desks with their internet connections. “Remember those scenes of professors and students out on the lawn under a late summer sun, students sitting cross-legged, perhaps chewing on blades of grass? Your kindly bearded professor, a tam res...
Next time you stand in line at the convenience store, listen to the people around you. Focus on the voices. Listen for the trapped nasal sound, the whine of precious self-indulgence. Or the sound of a voice rasping across vocal cords at the end of every sentence. A voice fry that has...
I roam the floor. In the space in front of the rows of desks with their internet connections. “Remember those scenes of professors and students out on the lawn under a late summer sun, students sitting cross-legged, perhaps chewing on blades of grass? Your kindly bearded professor, a tam...