Neurologists have revealed that a hatred of sound, or misophonia, is a real ailment.
Wu and her colleagues found that a full 20 percent of the students reported what the researchers considered clinically significant misophonia symptoms.
There is an online support group for people with misophonia, found here.
Take misophonia, the genetically linked characteristic of getting annoyed by hearing other people chewing.
Wu also sees significant impairment among kids with misophonia.
When she exposed people with and without misophonia to trigger sounds like loud chewing, sniffing, and lip-smacking (urgh), both sets of people reacted negatively.
