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I have extremely intense synesthesia and misophonia. The former I’ve had all my life and the latter seems to be getting worse with age.

Just calculated the average of all of my Letterboxd logs (I made my account in 2013) and figured it equals four years of 1 film per-day.

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I had to look up synesthesia and misophonia. Having one of those sounds hard enough, but having both must be extremely difficult.

I never knew misophonia was a real thing, but I think I have it too. Sounds like the car's turn signal clicks, or someone tapping their fingers on the desk, usually drive me crazy. When I was in the hospital, the beeping from the machines was driving me so crazy that I thought my head was going to explode.

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Yeah, that sounds like misophonia. I only drive with very loud music so as not to hear all the clicking and indicators, but one of the things I hate about Ubers is that the passenger can hear the app making all those sounds when the driver gets a new order. Makes me physically shudder.

I once lived next to a hospital, the A&E wing where all the ambulances would arrive, and after that my insomnia never went away, it’s been many years. There were really loud, screechy birds in that area, too. Most ‘normal’ people liked the fact there was so much green, nature, birds and all, but I slept in earplugs, noise-cancelling headphones and those ear muffs one on top of the other. Didn’t quite help, either, I could still hear it all. I haven’t really slept well since, Sunday night I literally got no sleep. It’s was 37 degrees Celsius where I live, to be fair, but it’s more that my neighbours on both sides had barbecues, kept talking into the small hours, I could hear every word, all the clanking cutlery, it’s honestly enraging and so so so exasperating.

I’ve always been very sensitive to sound, people chewing, buzzing, motorbikes, just any sort of noise, and I started listening to music non-stop all day outside of lessons when I was about 7, 8 to drown that out. It was mainly to escape the noise, though now that I’ve read up on misophonia on Reddit and the like, becoming a melomaniac seems to be a relatively common response to having it, because you’re trying to isolate yourself from external sounds, and that leads you down a rabbit hole of discovering new music all the time. That’s a hell of a silver lining.

Synesthesia for the most part isn’t ’difficult’; I’ve always felt it enhances my experience of the world, ever since I was tiny. There are different forms of synesthesia, and I have most of them in a kind of melange, so I often taste words, smell sounds, letters have an innate colour to them. There are also things that are harder to articulate, such as time having a shape (not the ‘week shaped like a page of a school planner’-type thing, which many people have, but the year and ‘time’ in the abstract having a sort of rotating shape, that kind of thing).

My best friend thinks it’s all related to being autistic which she thinks we both are. I’m not so sure. Then again, she has neither synesthesia nor misophonia, and I think despite my being incredibly weird and constantly out of place irl (and here every so often), I’m not autistic.

At home, I have the music blasting to block out the outside sound. Almost everyone who has been over in the last few years, would say, "How could you hear that?" and sometimes I think it's a result of producing music and constantly listening for mistakes, or accidental sounds like a microphone bump, or a neighbor mowing their grass (one of the worst sounds). It's why i love rain. Can't stand dogs barking.



This is the third day of a migraine, but it's not as bad as yesterday

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A passionate philatelist.

Fell in love with these things since early school times. After a break during the 90's and early 2000's, I've been deep into it again during the 2010's.
The Covid decreased my passion since I've stopped visiting the local club on a weekly basis which actually helped to reduce considerably my spendings.

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I really relate. Hope the migraine abates soon. Summer is the worst for them, I find.

I'm getting a bit hooked with the AI bots... It's much easier to lay down a sequence of chords and then ask "What possibilities sound good after?" as opposed to just experimenting. Oddly enough, I think it's because most of my communication resembles it, and it's almost like having a musical partner and getting energy and feeling indebted to finish things..

Wow! Which two did you miss?

Africa and Antarctica.

Go south, young man! (for Antarctica at least)

You got 3 on me.
Random fact: my ex regularly pouted about my height. "I've never dated anyone shorter than 5'10"? I can't wear my heels when we go out!" That kinda messed with my head for a bit!


Note the emphasis on ex.

@ynwtf that’s when you hit her with the “well, if you ain’t gonna wear them…”



i’ve never understood the concept of buying shoes and not wearing them

She probably walked like a baby giraffe when she wore them. She should consider herself lucky.

You did say ex, right? 😅

Nope. Not a clue.

I’m originally European so that’s one continent. Plus America so that’s two continents I guess. Oh, wait, I forgot Africa. Is that a continent?

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Yes, Africa is a continent.

I always have either the TV or music on pretty much 24/7. I turn it on as soon as I get home, and it's on constantly until I leave. (My cable plan has about 50 music channels included in the plan.) And I can't drive without the radio/CD/mp3 player on loud enough to drown out the clicking noises.

I hate being in a silent room because I can hear every little click, beep, and other noises that nobody else in the room notices. It drives Hubby crazy because very often he'll say things that I don't hear, and I keep saying "What?", but I can hear every little noise that he doesn't hear. (Sometimes he thinks I'm just ignoring him, but I genuinely can't hear his voice sometimes, or I'll hear him say something, but I can't understand the words. It's like he's speaking at a level that's out of my hearing range.)

I always have sound (through my TV).. or video.. Or something.

I don't like repetitive noise, like someone tapping their fingers on a table or jangling a bunch of keys, or a crisp packet being rattled while eating the crisps from it. 😂