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Rūta Zumbrickaitė

Experts Say That People Who Get Irritated By Various Sounds Might Simply Have A Specific Disorder

Have you ever found yourself so annoyed by a certain sound that it makes you feel almost violent? The sound can be anything from someone chewing with their mouth open, coughing, to clicking their pen nonstop, or a door squeaking. 

If you express your irritations with sounds like those, there’s a chance you might be told you’re simply overreacting or that you’re being oversensitive. Yet, as it turns out, those people who would be telling you these things are wrong; feeling intense irritation from certain sounds is proven to be not oversensitivity, but an actual disorder. 

Have you ever been extremely irritated by certain sounds like someone chewing loudly or a pen being clicked over and over again?

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