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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