24 May 2015

misophonia

[mis-oh-foh-nee-uh]

– Literally ‘hatred of sound’. A neuropsychiatric disorder which causes those afflicted to react with negative emotions (anger, flight, hatred, disgust) to sound. It could be in relation to loud sounds or even particularly soft sounds or sounds of a particular type, such as the sound of breathing, throat-clearing, singing, slurping, talking, sniffing, laughing, knuckle-cracking and so on. It is sometimes referred to as ‘selective sound sensitivity syndrome’.

Example:

– The teacher’s aggressive reaction whenever she heard the sound of cracking knuckles, resulted in the students nicknaming her ‘Miss O’Phonia’.

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Today’s aphorism

I’m a man that expects the unexpected. There’s nothing that surprises me, because I learn and I know that the Earth is my father and the fullness thereof.

– Peter Tosh

On this day

24 May 1930 – Amy Johnson, flying a Gypsy Moth, lands in Darwin. She is the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

24 May 2012 – Tens of thousands of Norwegian public servants go on strike demanding pay rises and improvements in working conditions. It is the first such strike in Norway since 1984.