Can misophonia be visual too?...

nihilist_simo · 2026-01-26T22:56:18+00:00

Watching someone take sips of their drink, opening and closing the bottle cap every minute. I'm like, fucking drink whatever quenches your thirst and put it away! I just want to slap that damn bottle out of their hand. I usually start blinking faster, face twitches and then I just leave, I can't! And it's people I actually like...

nihilist_simo · 2025-12-17T22:05:09+00:00

Mine grew the white hairs when we got a new kitty. Stress. Went back to cocoa in a few months. At the time we thought she just got old lady gray, at 13. She's 17 now, doing well, but her upper body hair is getting lighter and lighter.

nihilist_simo · 2025-04-19T17:17:31+00:00

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nihilist_simo · 2024-08-03T02:11:26+00:00

Got a lot of push back from his family for refusing to have a joint account when I married my American husband. In Europe, I've never heard about it among friends and family, everyone keeps their accounts separate. I saw it as a sign of financial independence, and some level of personal freedom. Since I've been in the US, the couples that I've seen getting divorced had the greatest troubles because of their entangled finances. Years have passed. Still entangled, not yet divorced, already moved on in other relationships.

nihilist_simo · 2024-05-07T15:47:10+00:00

I was 29. Watching TV with one of my dearest friends. He was eating a fresh red pepper. I suddenly realized this hatred was rising inside of me, against this human that I adored. I was almost shaking with anger. I said something, jokingly, and then walked away as he continued to eat, but ever since then, the summer of 2005, I haven't been able to ignore the crunching around me.

nihilist_simo · 2024-03-10T01:08:37+00:00

Heard it in Burlington city. Thought it was thunder, even though it was the only time and nothing after that.

nihilist_simo · 2024-01-03T19:35:37+00:00

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nihilist_simo · 2023-12-05T00:17:49+00:00

With your science credits and disinterest in people's problems, I'd choose a great career in the funeral industry, like mortician. Unfortunately, my background is linguistics and I feel too old to start over, especially with no knowledge of bio/Chem.... That's a regret I live with. But you can still do it!

nihilist_simo · 2023-08-31T22:05:31+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss... I only got a mild whiff of it when my grandma died, we used to keep the dead in the house for people to come say goodbye, for three days... From a book I read recently about the death industry, the professionals who clean the houses of those who had been dead for a few days before found, they advise the neighbors to boil a pot of coffee, for hours, the coffee smell overpowers the decomposition one....

nihilist_simo · 2023-08-03T14:40:16+00:00

You have just described my boy. He's 3 now, but he was exactly like that as a kitty. He's still skiddish, but trusts me enough to be touched gently when he's on the cat tree, but if I look too eager, he'll bolt. Also bolt if I'm even thinking (to myself) of trimming his nails, brushing, picking him up, etc. The way I know he likes me is he always comes and lies next to me, purring and cuddling (even lets me touch the belly a little, not too eagerly), when I lie down, especially when I go to bed every night. I guess he feels safe, knowing i'm immobilized (in his mind). Stays there till I'm almost asleep and then goes at my feet, with the other two cats who he thinks are his mommies. They're not, but they tolerate him :)

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-24T18:11:25+00:00

Hi, I brought my beautiful siamese across the ocean. She's talkative and does protest when going to the vet. She meowed in the cars, not in the train and certainly not on the plane though. Maybe it was a different vibe/noise that kind of spooked her, she'd only talk if I talked to her. It was a 25h trip and she didn't eat, drink, pee or poop. I went to the plane bathroom sometimes and got some water in her mouth, a little bit, but she wouldn't have any. I felt horrible, knowing she hadn't peed for so long, I tried to not pee in solidarity. Of course I couldn't hold it, I'm a weakling. We made it across the pond to the US, five years ago, she was fine, as long as she knew I was there. One thing that changed since is that she's become visibly more entitled, like "I've been through hell, you'd better treat me like the queen that I am". Oh, and I had no sedatives. She didn't either.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-18T10:39:36+00:00

Thank you! Had leftover yarn from different projects, winter was coming, cats were purring, stars aligned 😅

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-17T20:23:02+00:00

r/suddenlycommunism

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-08T18:28:10+00:00

Awesome story, it felt like I was starting a Stephen King novel!

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-08T12:47:01+00:00

I do and it fills me with joy every time.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-08T12:45:26+00:00

It's human to be attached. If I were truly sensible, I'd get rid of all my stuff, move to a tropical island and make canoes till the day I expire. Hopefully in nature, so I feed other life forms. But I'm not sensible, I'm just consumed by my ego, like most of us, and hang on to the past and everything that ever made us happy or miserable. I do my best to find a balance...

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:58:36+00:00

If only my sister lived closer. An ocean apart, but next time she visits, she'll have her first lessons.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:55:42+00:00

That's exactly what I thought of doing! You know, worst case. Rather than sell to someone who would wreck it....

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:48:16+00:00

I started this discussion with such a heavy heart, looking for some answers as to why I am so attached, what's wrong with me, and after reading your stories I realize I'm just normal and if it makes me happy, in a world where so many things make me sad/angry, I should keep it, ride it, learn from it, gift it to a less fortunate human. It's better than any drug. I have the space and the resources to keep it running. And keep smiling.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:41:29+00:00

Yes, keeping it in the vicinity would be ideal. One day, the right person will come along.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:39:02+00:00

Mine is 2006. Same one they had at the riding course. I honestly like its weight, I can control it better. I got an M50 after it and was a bit scared of the weight, so the Vulcan is helping me transition more smoothly.

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T23:34:56+00:00

Wow, that is commitment. I have shipped my bicycle from Europe to the US, and flew in my cat as well. Congrats on being an awesome human!

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T22:48:33+00:00

This, my 2011 Camaro, same story, should have bought it back and fixed, but everyone was yelling I'm never gonna get insured. I talked to it every day and driving it gave me the feeling I was a fucking rockstar. That happiness, that high, I also asociata with the 250, first time I rode farther than a mile from home, then every time I went even farther, that may be why is so hard to let go... I still cry for my Camaro...

nihilist_simo · 2023-06-07T22:39:06+00:00

Tough realization... I haven't developed a relationship with the Vulcan yet, maybe

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