- Date posted
- 1y
Misophobia with sister
My older sister (in her mid twenties) has a habit of “clearing her throat.” She will do it as loud as possible so it echoes in the entire house and everyone can hear it no matter where you are, and she will slowly increase the intensity to make the noise as nasty as possible. She’s been doing it for months now, and there’s an odd pattern to it. Well, if there’s a guest or if she’s in public, she doesn’t do it. If she’s alone in the house, she doesn’t do it. HOWEVER, if someone is within earshot at home, she will do it. She also only started doing this a few months ago. Yet, when questioned, she insists she’s clearing her throat and cannot help it if her throat gets clogged. Yet she will often do it at the end of sentences, after talking a ton. It does read as obnoxious at times. I am wondering at this point that she does it deliberately because she enjoys making a gross noise. Even if she is clearing her throat, the magnitude in which she does it is so intense and loud it harasses the ears…Yes. It is that loud. As if she wants to be heard? If you cannot tell, my OCD (or some form of misophobia) fixates on it and I cannot get the noise out of my mind. 😅 It makes me feel a little ill. If anyone is curious, to my knowledge, my older sister is not neurodivergent (although she used to love to talk about her “OCD” which makes her “super neat”🤦♀️). She could have anxiety, though. And technically I have no way of knowing, not my place to say. Ultimately, I have no idea why she does this and I begin to wonder if it’s to deliberately annoy us. I asked my bf about it, and he told me his sister does a similar thing where she makes gross noises for fun. Is this a common occurrence? 😅 Does anyone know what’s going on here? Is there a way I can approach this kindly? Although I am clearly very frustrated, I don’t want to be accusatory or mean about it…She is my sister, and I care about her deeply. But my brain cannot understand what’s going on here. 😅