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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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Meeting with a fellow author

7/15/2013

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So, here I am traveling on the east coast again. I started out visiting a friend this weekend and am now in North Carolina at another client presentation / design workshop. Right now, we're taking a lunch break, so I wanted to take a minute to share with you all a very exciting, last minute, get together I had with Judith Krauthamer,  the author of the book, "Sound-Rage" and a friend of mine. What an enjoyable meeting! It was the first time I've ever met someone else with misophonia face-to-face and I couldn't believe how much we have in common (not just with our shared misophonia experiences but with other general similarities too.) Unfortunately, I had to cut our conversation short. I really would've loved to have continued our converation longer. Judith is so a nice and I think we both enjoyed our time together.

We talked a lot about her "Sound-Rage" book, which was just released last month, as well as my memoir writing efforts too. We shared personal experiences about our misophonia and it was amazing the similarities. Throughout our conversation, she explained some of the science behind misophonia experiences by using analogies that were very easy to understand. Even my friend, was intrigued, and he only knows about misophonia from the few discussions he and I've had. (When we still worked together, I often asked him to stop drumming his fingers when we met for coffee on the way to a job site, so he is somewhat aware of my hyper-sensitivities to certain sensory triggers.)

Before we went our separate ways, I asked Judith to sign my copy of the "Sound-Rage" book, which I started to read on the flight to where I'm at right now. It's fascinating how much her writing reads just like my own thoughts. I could especially relate to the stories that were shared by other sufferers as well. I haven't quite gotten to the more scientific portion of the book, but I'm really looking forward to reading more, and even bought another copy to share with my family! I figure it might help them to better understand my misophonia if they can read about it through someone else's voice.
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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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