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Sensitivity to Certain Sounds Is a Real Thing

Do you ever shudder when you hear certain sounds, such as rustling of some type of plastic bags or a fork scraping on the bottom of a porcelain plate? Or get a tingling in your teeth when somone scrapes their fingernails on a blackboard? It may be a mild annoyance for most, but a serious problem for people with "misophonia," from the Greek words meaning hatred of sound. No matter how tolerant we are, most of us feel uncomfortable if a person sitting close to us in a...

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