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The "Butterfly's Whisper" Blog

Welcome to my blog. I hope by sharing my own misophonia experiences, others who are frustrated with misophonia sensitivities will discover that they're not alone. I also hope that people who may not have misophonia will gain some insight about what it's like to have this condition.

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More Tricks Than Treats While Traveling…

10/30/2015

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Please excuse the length of this diatribe but a LOT has happened during the past 24 hours that I’d like to share with you all. I’m writing this on the second leg of my trip back to the Pacific Northwest after my third back-and-forth trip to NYC for work in three weeks. Yes, you read that right… Every week for the past three weeks I’ve traveled back and forth to NYC. I’ve always wanted to do more traveling for work and it’s clear that with this new position, I’m going to have opportunities to do so.

Unlike the past two trips, this time the Owner of my company went with me. On the one hand, I’m very glad he did because we were able to divide and conquer the tasks at hand (which otherwise would’ve taken me twice the amount of time to do by myself – killing my entire weekend). On the other hand, it made a very annoying misophonia situation much more stressful for me because I wasn’t able to address it the way I wanted to do so… 

You see… Yesterday was a long day where we were working at the site from 12 noon until nearly 11 p.m. and the last couple of hours were spent with an A/V technician who (when he was waiting for his computer to catch up with him) would drum his hands very loud and fast against cardboard moving boxes or any other hard surface around him. I was in a real predicament because the Owner of my company doesn’t know about my misophonia yet, and I wasn’t about ready to tell him; yet for me to confront the hand

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Where in the world...

10/23/2015

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... Or should I be saying, "Where's Emlyn?"

I'm long overdue (again) for a blog update, but again with good reason. Right now, I'm sitting on a plane headed back to the NW from my second business trip to NYC in two weeks. (Hoping I won't have to go back a third time next week.) Funny how it takes being cooped up on a four hour plane trip with my extra paid GoGo WiFi to finally have an opportunity to do a blog update. Ah the joys of being a company "Owner-in-training..."

I won't mention all the usual travel triggers, it's easy to just use the SenseHaven search engine to see similar posts on what my misophonia travel experiences are like. I will say that going to NYC a couple of days ago, the gentleman sitting next to me on the plane kept tapping his hands/feet to whatever music he was listening to. I politely asked him to stop (because I could feel the vibrations of his feet tapping radiating up my feet to the rest of my body) but a little while later he commented that I must've been feeling the vibrations of the turbulence. I told him that a bumpy ride doesn't feel the same as someone tapping his foot inches away from mine. (It's a sharp vibration that's concentrated on the floor, as opposed to the overall dull vibration when your whole body moves to the plane turbulence.) I could tell he must've thought I was nuts. Oh well...

Other than travel triggers, I've been so busy trying to get caught up at work that the times I do experience other triggers, I think to myself that I should be updating my blog post - or at least keeping up with my Twitter feed. For such a geek, I am so behind the times when it comes to social media. Somehow, I've got to get back into the swing of things...

I would like to thank everyone who continues to read this blog and visit the SenseHaven.com website in general. I appreciate the feedback and suggestions for new information to post. Just a heads-up... I received one comment yesterday that said the person is pulling together a support group for the NY/NJ/PA area. As soon as I receive more information, I'll put the details of the meeting in the "Support Venues" section. As always, if anyone has information about support groups, articles, or other information that would help people learn more about misophonia, submit the information in the "Contact Us" page and I'll upload it for all to see.  :-)
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    About the Author

    Emlyn Altman has been suffering with misophonia for over 40 years, even though she only found out about the actual medical condition much more recently. As frustrating as the condition has been over the years, her heightened sensitivities across all the senses considerably influenced her talents within the visual fine arts (particularly sculpture), music (singing, piano, and many other instruments), writing, and culinary backgrounds, as well as professional achievements as an architectural lighting designer. Her goal in developing this website is to promote more awareness about misophonia and help other sufferers as well.


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