Dealing with misophonia

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8. My husband and son have it...

to the point where I refuse to eat a salad or an apple or corn on the cob near either of them.

I think it was a few years before my husband mentioned his annoyance/disgust/cringing at certain sounds. He blames his mother, lol, but maybe it IS hereditary. He said his mother hated the sound a fork makes occasionally on a plate, that sort of thing. He CANNOT stand that Kit Kat commercial. He hates popcorn eaters at the movies.

When my boys were little, he'd correct them when they were eating apples, or chips. I finally had to make him see that he was the one bothered by this. I'm not talking about people who eat with their mouths open. We can all be bothered by that kind of thing. But to be bothered by someone munching an apple or a carrot, making a normal chewing sound, takes it too far I think.

My teen son said he has trouble eating with friends sometimes because of noises they make. Can't stand ice chewers, bottle squeezers, heavy breathing.

I'm not sure what can be done about it other than trying to just cope.