Hi Everyone! An introduction....

[Guest guest]

I'm Celeste,30, live in Asheville, NC with my two boys and their

dad....I've absolutely HATED, DESPISED and LOATHED chewing sounds

since I was 5 years old.

I can remember the day it happened. I grew up on a commune and back

in those early days there was about 5 familys to a household...I'd

never noticed chewing before until one day my mom whispered to me at

the table to " always chew with my mouth closed because look at how

disgusting it is not to " as there were 2 familys who all ate with

very open mouths smacking their food incessently. I was ruined from

that point on.

When I got a a bit older it just got worse...I could no longer eat

at the table with my family and was banned to the mudroom steps for

meals as they did not want me glaring and sighing because of their

horrible chewing. Even tho it was my mother who started me on this

path she thought I was crazy and naurotic and told me that she had

only said open mouth chewing was gross and couldn't understand why I

despised ALL chewing noises...

Thank goodness my childrens chewing hardly ever bothers me but it

can put a real strain on my relationship with their dad who's

chewing and breathing and coughing annoy me to the point of

craziness! I also HATE and always have, the sound of utinsils

scraping the dish -it's horrible and I can't understand why anyone

would want to do it and torture everyone else when they could just

eat their food quietly!

Usually, if I don't know someone very well, their chewing doesn't

bother me unless it's loud or they do it with their mouth open...

My husfriend's(word I made up -we're not marrried but more than

b/gfriend) parents want to get together for meals often. His mom

chews with her mouth open! She just smacks and smacks away! It

drives me NUTS! I just can't even believe it! I can't believe that

she can't hear how loud she's chewing and not be bothered by the

utter hideousness of the extremely disgusting sounds she's making!!!

I have to hold myself down at the table overwhelmed by a squirming

sensation doing everything I can to act normal and not run away or

just smack her for being so loud and atrocious...

I can't believe she tells my boys not to put their elbows on the

table but she chews like that!? WTF?!

Anyway, sorry if this is getting too long...

As the grocery shopper I quit buying crackers for my family. I told

my husfriend if he couldn't stop eating them in front of me I wasn't

buying them anymore...Last night he whipped out a box of wheat thins

that he had stopped and bought. I was so f**king irritated! I told

him I wasn't speaking to him unless he stopped eating them. He got

irritated with me and I told him that if I were God I'd make a

perfect world where chewing was completely silent and I told him I

really think it is an actual condition and I'm doing a search for it

online and joining a group! And sure enough, I found you guys! I

just knew there had to be others! At least a few!!

Over the last few years I've developed a new hatred for the sound of

a lighter flicking....I also hate the sound of flys buzzing around,

especially when they flick onto a surface -it almost makes me want

to vomit...gum doesn't bother me too much if someone is chewing it

politely and not all loud and smacky and if it's not in a quiet

setting like the library (I want to strangle people chewing gum in

the library! Are they crazy!!?? It's a library, for gods sake, not

the f**king gum chewing olympics!)

Sometimes keyboard typing bothers me...but a lot of time I can block

it out...but sometimes it drives me crazy.

My husfriend seems to talk on the phone a lot...I seem to be able to

hear him no matter what room he's in or how many doors are closed -

it drives me crazy...I've even wanted to disconnect our phone.

Oh, and I hate french kissing sounds unless I'm the one making them -

especially sloppy ones - I have to cover my ears and look away from

those horrid scenes in movies and shows and curse at the stupid

producers who would let these dispicable sounds be in their

production...and the eating sounds on so many commercials...just

horrific! I yell at the TV and curse the people responsible and

switch the channel right away...

I've ALWAYS HATED when someone goes " shhh " -I used to beg and plead

my mom not to do it -I HATE it!

In 5th grade I had a teacher who did some weird clucking throat

sound - I hated it SOOOO MUCH!!!! It drove me INSANE! It urks me

out just thinking about it...

I'm wondering if people with this condition also share other

traits...I haven't passed on my sound thing to my boys but I am a

bit of a germ-a-phob and they kinda are too now even at their young

ages...(10 and 5)They both know how to flush toliets with their

foot, open doors with their elbows and go straight to the sink to

wash their hands immediatly after coming home from anywhere...My

older son has even been to the point of crying for not being able to

wash his hands, poor little darling....

Do you guys get headaches? I think I get headaches from all the

horrible noises...

I'm so glad to finally meet people who understand...

Oh, my husfriend thinks it's a magnesium deficiency -any thoughts on

that?

Lotza love and silent mouth noises,

Celeste