Do you ever get really, really angry or annoyed when someone is making sounds while chewing, blowing their nose, or even breathing? Well you aren't alone, and you may have Misophonia, described by Slate.com as the "disorder of irritation by chewing, lip-smacking, sniffing sounds."

Now let me backtrack, I have not done extensive research on this topic, and I do not recommend self-diagnosis of anything, also, some people suffer from very severe cases of this disorder, an I am not trying to make light of that; however, I can definitely relate to the symptoms of Misophonia... in other words, this is more a rant than any real information on my part.

Returning to the point, and getting pretty meta, I was trying to write an article about something-- I don't even remember what-- but I couldn't do it because I got too annoyed by the timbre of another person's voice. Not just annoyed, actually; I was infuriated. This caused me to remember a fun fact I once read about Misophonia actually being a real thing, and thus I decided to write about it because it is literally all I can think about right now.

Seriously.

To be honest, I'm not even sure being annoyed by the timbre of someone's voice even falls under Misophonia (by timbre, I don't mean their voice itself, or their tone or anything like that, I mean this low hum that seems to be in the back of their throat no matter what they're saying or how they say it), but I can assure you that this saw-like buzzing is making me want to break something. And I have this problem a lot: when I hear that sloppy, squelching sound of someone eating cereal; when I am used to silence in my room, but I have to share sleeping space with someone and their breathing is keeping me awake; when I walk a flight of stairs with a friend and they're somehow out of breath for almost five minutes straight after that-- I know it's unreasonable to get upset about these kinds of things, but I find myself infuriated to the point of questioning friendships altogether ("we can't be friends until you finish your cereal").

Anyway, though, there's not much of a point to this rant except to say that I'm really glad getting mad at someone for chewing isn't entirely abnormal, and I'm not alone.... Now here's the real question: will there someday be a cure for Misophonia? (After we solve more life-threatening diseases and disorders I mean, no way should curing anger caused by chewing be put above cures for all the various types of cancer, etc.). I'm just saying, a pill that could make it easier to tune out chewing sounds? Sounds like a miracle drug to me.

So, those are just a few thoughts on Misophonia because that's all I can really think about right now... that is all.