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.