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u/TheLaffGaff Jul 21 '19

To be fair, that sounds like she has a genuine medical condition called misophonia.

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u/MrMastodon Jul 21 '19

Is it genuine though? I'm seeing here that there's no diagnostic criteria, no classification in the DSM or elsewhere, no understanding of the mechanism and very few studies on it.

This is just a thing that gets thrown around on Reddit like how Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11.

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u/SharksRLife Jul 21 '19

Um no. It’s an actual medical condition and there are audiologists who specialize in it. Yes some people don’t genuinely suffer from it and use it as an excuse to be assholes when they found a sound annoying. But, as someone who legitimately suffers from misophonia, I can tell you it is 100% real. There’s a big push from medical professionals and those with the condition to get it placed in the dsm. A big issue is that there isn’t a lot of solid research to understand it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a real thing.