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The World Is Too Loud: On Being a Writer with Misophonia

By Caoilinn Hughes — 2018

My brain processes your pen clicking as a threat to my survival. The overwhelming urge to punch someone in the mouth and/or to flee is typical. How does having this hypersensitive ear affect my writing life? What habits have I developed on account of or in response to this relationship with the aural?

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Misophonia Sufferers: Scientists May Have Found the Root of Your Pain

Neuroscientists say that brain scans of misophonia sufferers show that particular sounds, like eating and drinking, cause the part of their brain that processes emotions, the anterior insular cortex, to go into overdrive.

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