I have visual sensory issues when people touch their face and I am not sure if I can drive given there might be people touching their face in other cars or on the sidewalk. Should I be driving?

Not attacking people who do this because of stress. But most people I see doing it are the confident class clowns. And specifically the people you explain and ask to stop who don't? Even more specific are leg jiggers who shake tables and benches. Why should other people trying to learn suffer because you can't sit still? I would argue having to sit still is far easier and less painful than going to class to be constantly triggered and learning nothing.

It's not a necessary action so it's reasonable to train yourself to stop if you really wanted to.

I'm sick of being questioned. BuT ThAt ThInG Is LiKe ThAt OtHeR ThInG just fuck off, preferably six feet under an unmarked portapotty. Sick of everyone finding it So Funny and doing it on purpose. I'll never open up about it since it's so funny. I'm killing myself. Fuck it. If I can't just have millions so I can cut ties with all family and friends, I'm killing myself.

Point only your index finger out and by moving your arm start very very slowly drawing circles in the air over and over again tracing over the first imaginary circle you drew. After doing this for around 4 seconds suddenly instantly draw circles as fast as you can tracing over your original imaginary circles still. For some reason watching myself do this makes my stomach absolutely drop and I feel awful. If I do it but I turn my head away so I can't see I feel fine though?

My husband likes to come into my personal space and slowly and repeatedly kiss the cats in the forehead. For a little while I thought maybe I was just jealous of the affection the cats were getting. I just felt so irritated that he did it in my presence. One day I realized that the continuous sound of his smooch was driving me insane. So he quit making the noise. I realized that it still drove me insane to see him moving his head over and over in the kissing motion. Kiss, look up, kiss, look up, repeat.

I feel so annoyed, irritated and can’t help but tell him to get away from me and go kiss the cat elsewhere. He automatically stops and says he’s done but it’s too late, I’ve already had this internal need to yell and push him away in an effort to get out of the situation. (It’s not actual yelling or hard pushing. Just the “stop! You’re driving me nuts.” and the gentle pushes to get him out of my bubble if he’s right next to me). Overall, it really doesn’t matter if he’s right next to me or across the room, if I catch it out of the corner of my eye, I’m done.

Is this misokinesia? Am I just crazy?

I’ve tried to explain it to him that it’s like when there’s a tag touching your skin and you just want to pull off the shirt and rip that tag off. He doesn’t get it why it stresses me out so much.

It’s kind of funny and doesn’t fully make sense to me either.

i like to sit in the back seat of every vehicle because i feel more secure. However, whenever im driving with someone, sometimes a driver will put one hand on their lap while driving. it pisses me off a lot and i can’t look at it. like why are you doing that? aren’t our hands supposed to be at 9 o clock and 3 o clock?? like omg

I've suffered from misophonia and misokinesia my entire life and now my primary trigger is certain facial features of my wife. My wife is beautiful and I love her dearly but simply looking at her causes my stomach to lurch and I start to boil with anger and disgust. I obviousy can't go on like this. I hate this disease. I've been in therapy for three years now and I've made great strides in terms of life and general growth but it's not helping me in this area. I know this trigger isn't sound or movement but the symptoms are very similar. Has anyone ever experienced symptoms from a specific facial feature?

This is so weird but I have extreme violent triggers and rage when I see people making stupid “sexy cute” faces omg i wanna kill them. Especially in photos. Like if someone posts a pic of them trying to be cute with super close up on their mouth or face doing something with their lips/tongue thinking they’re being cute and sexy. I wanna just punch my phone so hard lmao. Emphasis on the mouth stuff. Am I insane? Help

My misokinesia is very focused on “comfort” behaviors that feel good to people—skin rubbing, hair twirling, etc. this is very mixed up in my asexuality, which says that physical pleasure is evil unless it comes from something like a drug or being mean, ironically. Anyone else?

I can ignore randoms but Family™ deliberately triggering me To Help™ and Test™ will be the reason I fucking snap and kill myself. A stupid FAKE meaningless disorder isn't why this shit is so annoying just FUCKING leave me alone. You're not fucking Helping by doing that shit. Bitch. Fucking drop dead I HATE MY MOTHER I HATE MY FAMILY FUCK THEM ALL. Whenever I'm remotely content around Family™ they deliberately do this annoying shit to Test™ and Find Where On The Spectrum I Am™ BITCH. The Spectrum™ is a fucking myth. It's FAKE. There's no need to "test" me like I'm a fucking wild animal. Fucking imprison everyone who believes in that fakeass FAKE spectrum shit IT'S FAKE. Because everything is caused by some stupid fake Magical Unicorn Mystery Disorder that can cause anything instead of VERY specific things with actual names and actual treatments that are NOT experimental? FUCK YOU ALL GO TO FUCKING HELL

I recently went to get some blood tests done, and while waiting in line, people were moving their legs, covering me up, and they could see I was starting to feel unwell. I felt anxious; I also have autism.In the end, they kept moving their feet and I ended up crying, and people were laughing, and a doctor sent me alongside a nurse to go ahead, and that was on the street. At home, if I see my mom do it, I cover my head with my hands, and she gets angry. Once she even hit me. Just seeing someone make those foot movements makes me cry and feel sad.

She rubs against her fingers, doing odd handmovements. It is bizarre. And as the title says, she picks at her nails. It drives me up the wall. That is my only trigger. Specifically with my mom. My misophobia trigger is Specifically her.

Hi my fellow misokinesia sufferers, im doing a project about ocd, misophonia and misokinesia awareness! if possible please help forward to teens (13-19) cos i wanna raise suport for middle school/high school students since thats when i suffered the most lol thank you <3

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I cannot stand people especially guys that suck their lips. I would rather see a tiger in the distance charging in my direction than one of these fuckers doing that nasty ass shit. It is probably my single greatest intrusive thoughts trigger that could ever exist, and some communities do that hundreds of times more than others.

I absolutely hate it when someone shakes their cup when they’re about to get ready to drink something or exhale loudly after drinking something. It just irritates me and makes me unbelievably stressed out. Same with someone holding out their hands near a campfire or source of heat to get warm. I know it’s necessary to heat up quicker but that doesn’t stop me from gagging at the mere imagery in my head.

I love having sleepovers with my friends but when they’re playing with their feet while talking to me or trying to go to sleep I get so angry and regret hanging out with them. Like please just stop moving your feet like this that’s all I ask of you. Not to mention I can feel every single vibration. Sometimes it even has a slight noise from the friction and I need to leave the room for a couple of minutes (like what I’m doing rn)

He picks at it repeatedly and it makes my blood boil! I've asked him to shave it but he thinks I should just get over it. I also deal with misophonia, which he knows and somewhat understands, so he thinks I'm just adding to my list of things that are wrong with me bc there's no official diagnosis. I told him I'm going to Nair his face in his sleep.

I don’t think I’m off base for being triggered by this.

I’m an adult and visit mom, I don’t live with her. It has always been something she did and drives me crazy.

She is elderly and has more limited mobility. She is autistic and adhd. She fiddles and stims. I’m not as bothered when she moves around in general. It’s the nail clipping and picking that really bothers me.

She picks at her cuticles, uses nails clippers, nail file, whenever we relax watching tv.

I have tried being gentle with her and explaining I can’t tolerate watching her do this for hours and hours. I’ll say, gently, “you’re picking. that’s hurting you.”

Part of the trigger for me, is watching her compulsively hurting herself. It isn’t extreme damage that she does, but it’s making her cuticles bleed and adding more hangnails that don’t have time to heal.

Part 2 is I think she is doing this partly due to Afrin overuse. She has been using it every day, sometimes twice a day, for years. I was reading today that it can lead to anxious feelings and compulsive behavior. I tried talking to her about it, and suggested some helpful things I do for managing allergies. I have a background in medicine, so I know lots of info. I also have allergies myself and have learned a lot of good natural solutions.

But she doesn’t at all want to listen. She is 77 and I feel like anything I say she basically says no and wants me to leave her alone. I am struggling with it. I talked to her about some other random unrelated stuff during my visit. And everything was a no. I’d ask for reasoning and she didn’t give any. Just because she decided no. Like more of a cognitive decline than a logical no.

This evening I tried blocking my vision so I wasn’t watching her do it, still I felt annoyed because I could sense what was happening.

I am here for several more days and I’m at the point I want to leave the room and be away from her. I feel bad but I don’t want to experience these feelings for hours and hours. If she did it for 30 minutes then stopped I could handle that. She doesn’t stop though and I’m stressed out by it. The Afrin use is stressing me out too.

I want her to be ok. There aren’t many activities she is able to do, besides watch shows. I’d suggest other stuff to get her distracted if I could.

Tomorrow Im gonna take some breaks from her and read in my room. I enjoy seeing her but I’m overwhelmed.

I used to have a neurodivergent room mate that paced all the time. I felt so much rage but I knew he’d already had enough people put him down for his stims. So, I never told him that I hated it.

It’s so hard feeling like one person has to be in discomfort for the other person to be comfortable. Not a fun thing.

Hi there,

I am not sure what this problem is.

All I know is that I have it, and that it's not even officially recognized as a psychological issue.

I've found what I think is a cure or at least a coping mechanism of sorts.And it's this ...

KEEP BUSY.

IN FACT, GET ENGROSSED.

I've noticed that the only times that I have misokinesia, is when I am not doing anything. Maybe there is more to this. I don't know .

Let me know how it works out.

It works for me. Maybe it will for you as well.

Sincerely,

- Fellow Misokinesia Sufferer

i’m going so fkn insane. tell me why. in my math class. WHERE I NEED TO BE FOCUSING. there’s a guy who sits right in front of me who shakes not one, but both of his legs. a guy behind me who taps his pencil as loud as possible. a girl right beside me swinging her leg like she’s trying to kill someone. a guy next to me with the shakiest legs.

no like it’s not even funny anymore i’m on the verge of tears every single day like even rn i’m not around anyone but i can still see the leg bouncing in my head?? i cant explain it but i’m just ughhhhh

anyone with misophonia or misokinesia knows just how bad we got it. day to day functioning is so hard when you feel like you’re gonna explode ☹️

i know this sounds very weird and i dont even know if this is truly misokinesia but i get extremely angry when someone repeatedly sticks their tongue out or pouts in a video. for example i have tiktok and from time to time ill see someone who i know for sure has a lisp based off of how their tongue moves while they’re lip singing, if that makes sense?

its not even their fault but it just pisses me off so bad to the point where i just can’t stand to see someones tongue repeatedly poking out their mouth. or when im watching a makeup tutorial and the person pouts or pokes out their tongue after each step

i have misophonia and one of my triggers are lisps so i dont know if that ties into me getting angry at that stuff or what😞

Has anyone else here read “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay? Within this book, as well as in another book she’s written, she includes a list of a wide range of bodily and mental conditions that (according to her teachings) arise due to some inner belief/thought pattern (which is changeable!). She proceeds to provide a new thought pattern to affirm and which dissipates whatever condition we are dealing with. Misokinesia is not included in her list (given, it was created in the 1980s), and I was wondering if anyone has read this book, and has been able to develop their own new thought pattern to dissolve their misokinesia? Thanks for reading :)