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As a person who suffers badly from misophonia (which is not limited to chewing sounds) it’s pretty fucking grimly depressing to see research on it treated this

by mlthoughts2018 6y ago

As a person who suffers badly from misophonia (which is not limited to chewing sounds) it’s pretty fucking grimly depressing to see research on it treated this way.

stonogo 6y ago
You have a problem with scientists raising awareness of research into a condition which affects you? Why?
- mlthoughts2018 6y ago
  As mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the Ig Nobel Prize, > “the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research” It’s not raising awareness. It’s making light of the underlying concerns and trivializing them. Misophonia isn’t trivial to me. It’s a significant disorder that makes my life challenging. It’s deeply upsetting that the Ig Nobel committee would view it as within the purview of their award designations.
  - sellyme 6y ago
    As mentioned on Improbable Research's website: > We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that’s maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. There's typically a few serious research papers included each year.
    - me_me_me 6y ago
      In all fairness there was a prize for research about cows caloric intake based on amount light and temperature or something like that. It sound stupid, but this research was used by farmers to plan amount of food and condition for cows during winter. So just because the research topic sounds funny it doesn't meant that it is useless.
pacamara619 6y ago
Guess what. I have the same fucking condition and I'm delighted. It's gotten so bad that I don't eat in cafeterias, don't eat with my roommates and very very rarely in restauranrs. I'm still delighted to see that someone actually notices and that so many people have now been exposed to its existence.
me_me_me 6y ago
Same boat, it drives me bonkers even imagining the scenario. And its not only chewing food sounds but some other mouth sounds. Also certain inflection of speech that make some wet pauses between sentences. There had been few podcasts I dropped due to sounds the host/guest were making. And their expensive microphones that pickup every sound do not help :( But as I grew older I got the more I managed my emotions better. The more I focus on the sound the more it drives me up the wall. So learning to pay less attention and not actively looking for the sounds is something I am always working on. I can eat out, as long as person(s) with me doesn't chew loudly. I can tune out other tables. Its bit sad that this is seen as a goofy research. Misophonia is not life ending but definitely can affect your life, especially if left alone can probably decrease life quality. Its strange that Mysophobia - fear of germs or dirt - is something people are treating like a 'normal' disorder. Its as idiosyncratic to fear every single germ as to be agitated by arbitrary sound(s).

As a person who suffers badly from misophonia (which is not limited to chewing sounds) it’s pretty fucking grimly depressing to see research on it treated this way.

stonogo 6y ago

You have a problem with scientists raising awareness of research into a condition which affects you? Why?

mlthoughts2018 6y ago
As mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the Ig Nobel Prize, > “the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research” It’s not raising awareness. It’s making light of the underlying concerns and trivializing them. Misophonia isn’t trivial to me. It’s a significant disorder that makes my life challenging. It’s deeply upsetting that the Ig Nobel committee would view it as within the purview of their award designations.
- sellyme 6y ago
  As mentioned on Improbable Research's website: > We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that’s maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. There's typically a few serious research papers included each year.
  - me_me_me 6y ago
    In all fairness there was a prize for research about cows caloric intake based on amount light and temperature or something like that. It sound stupid, but this research was used by farmers to plan amount of food and condition for cows during winter. So just because the research topic sounds funny it doesn't meant that it is useless.

pacamara619 6y ago

Guess what. I have the same fucking condition and I'm delighted. It's gotten so bad that I don't eat in cafeterias, don't eat with my roommates and very very rarely in restauranrs. I'm still delighted to see that someone actually notices and that so many people have now been exposed to its existence.

me_me_me 6y ago

Same boat, it drives me bonkers even imagining the scenario. And its not only chewing food sounds but some other mouth sounds. Also certain inflection of speech that make some wet pauses between sentences. There had been few podcasts I dropped due to sounds the host/guest were making. And their expensive microphones that pickup every sound do not help :( But as I grew older I got the more I managed my emotions better. The more I focus on the sound the more it drives me up the wall. So learning to pay less attention and not actively looking for the sounds is something I am always working on. I can eat out, as long as person(s) with me doesn't chew loudly. I can tune out other tables. Its bit sad that this is seen as a goofy research. Misophonia is not life ending but definitely can affect your life, especially if left alone can probably decrease life quality. Its strange that Mysophobia - fear of germs or dirt - is something people are treating like a 'normal' disorder. Its as idiosyncratic to fear every single germ as to be agitated by arbitrary sound(s).