'Hearing my long-suffering spouse eat a pear fills me with visceral loathing. Don’t get me wrong: I love this man. As long as he’s not chewing. Joking aside, this is why misophonia can be serious, even though it’s tempting to dismiss it as a silly quirk.'
When you’re diagnosed with ADHD as an adult as I was, you have the benefit of looking back several decades, cataloging your challenges, and finally realizing that not everyone lives this way. I keep a running list of random things I thought everyone struggled with, but it turns out that isn’t the case.
. Here are five everyday behaviors that cause sensory overload and drive me crazy, but that you might not have connected to ADHD.Keep in mind that not all people with ADHD struggle with these difficulties, but here are theEver since I was a child, the sound of people chewing has filled me with a desperate rage. I have distinct memories of sitting across the table from my mother eating crunchy onions while I was internally begging for a rogue asteroid to hit us both.
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