Misophonia

I thought I would talk about this since a girl sitting behind me in my class this morning (like inches away from me) decided to eat every single ice cube in her cup. I kind of figured this would bother anybody since it's a very loud crunching noise in a quiet classroom... but nope. This only seemed to be bothering me. I've always been extremely annoyed at any kind of crunching noise, when people smack their food/gum, and just any kind of noise like that. I could always tell my close family and friends to stop smacking their gum or to stop crunching their popcorn so loudly, but you can't really tell someone that you don't really know that well to stop making a noise. My family always made fun of me because of how much it annoyed me and thought that I was crazy. A few years ago I found out that this is an actual thing... called Misophonia aka fear of sounds. So I was really excited to tell my parents that I wasn't the only one that had this problem!