Have you read up on misophonia? Misiphones experience triggers on a scale of reactivity. EVERY time I perceive a certain kind of stimulus, I experience a level 7-10 response:

Huh?

Yeah, I bite myself until I break the skin. I feel like I'm dying, and that I'm going to kill someone. Only with certain triggers.

Since when? The hallmark of misophonia is a fight or flight response, which is involuntary as long as the stimulus is present.

You're not a true misophone if you are at all capable of "tamping it down."

I'm allergic to this color palette. It's like Goth Dunkin Donuts.

Thanks! I also asked myself before approaching him if I would be offended if somebody asked me to be a bit quieter. I realized I would definitely oblige and apologize profusely if I was in his shoes, so I went for it. Totally wasn't expecting such hostility!

Thank you for your thoughtful replies.

Last night on an intercontinental flight I asked a man sitting behind me very nicely if he could possibly lower his voice "just ever so slightly" for the duration of his flight. He was basically yelling at his wife next to him about everything from the food to the movies he was going to watch to a lot of other drivel…

Personally I wish vocal coaching was a bit more prominent in our culture. If I had a nasal voice with vocal fry, I'd take pains to alter it. Although, I have sound sensitivities so who am I to insist on something for others when others may not feel the way I do about the quality of voices.

I'm a MJ hater too and I absolutely love this collection. It's fresh, thoughtful, brilliant. He's back (although I still hate him!).

Don't feel bad about it. You probably set all his feminine ideal bells ringing and he was upset that you didn't want him after all. Imagine the gaping hole in his life you rent asunder by rejecting him ever so gently as you did. Guys like him treat women as possessions, and when they cannot keep ahold of their…

Help, internet! I'm constantly the rejector. It feels terrible. I believe I am too judgmental but I cannot just turn that part of me off. I've been waiting for several years (after dissolving a long relationship in which I was very much in love with the person) to find that spark, that Feeling Called L.O.V.E.. I've…

I wish you were the FA fro numerous flights I've had to endure with sick people. I once had bronchitis, sinusitis, and a double inner ear infection, with a doctor's note from urgent care (it was sunday night and I was supposed to fly out monday morning—the Dr. prohibited me from flying at least until the antibiotics…

True story: My sister had a turtle named Myrtle and I had a dog named Daisy. We introduced them for the first time, and they totally had a knock-down drag-out fight, just like in The Great Gatsby, expect none of us had read Fitzgerald at that time. Myrtle clamped down on Daisy's tongue and bit part of it off.

Yup, my physically abusive mother pulls the same shit. Now that she's in AA and "making amends," she has called everybody to apologize for "whatever it was that I did." And she complains to her sponsor that her family is so terrible to her. She plays the victim so hard.

True!

So, his advice is to dress exactly like Jane Fonda in Klute? Okay then.

interesting! I think you are right, pcps are offering cosmetic services more and more. But I read Stone's blurb to be a tacit admission to undergoing procedures and plastic surgery.

What are you calling bs on, exactly? She's admitted to plastic surgery, even in the blurb. It's not like Primary Care Physicians are selling her face lifts in their office.