Misophonia test where nothing plays until you say so

1. The route. The first screen asks whether you want samples at all. The descriptions route never creates an audio context and draws no play buttons, so there is nothing on the page that could make a noise.
2. The level check. Before the inventory appears, you set your volume on pink noise — a hiss, deliberately, because setting the level on a trigger would mean being ambushed by one to find out how loud they are.
3. The item’s own button. Each item says what its sample is built from before there is anything to press, one press plays it once for four and a half seconds, and a Stop control stays at the top of the inventory the whole time.

The samples are built, not recorded: band-passed noise in bursts on a jittered clock, and one low pulsed tone where noise cannot go that low. A recording carries a person — their microphone, their room, their rhythm — and a rating of it is partly a rating of them; synthesized bursts are the same item for every visitor. The price is stated on each button: a burst train has the acoustic shape of a trigger, not the trigger, so the result counts which ratings were given after listening and which from the sentence alone. The twelfth item, a bouncing knee, has no animation for the same reason the others have buttons — a looping picture would already be running before you chose to see it.

The definition this page works from is the consensus one — Swedo et al. (2022), Consensus definition of misophonia: a Delphi study — and it is narrower than the everyday word. It describes a decreased tolerance of specific sounds, typically oral, nasal and repetitive ones, and of sights tied to them; reactions of anger, irritation, disgust or distress out of proportion to the sound; and consequences in the person’s life. Being annoyed by chewing is not the condition. Changing where you sit, what you eat and who you eat with is the part the definition is about.

That is why intensity and cost are asked separately and never added. People rate every eating item at the top of the scale and have arranged their lives so it almost never comes up; others give middling ratings and have stopped eating with their family. A single total would hide exactly that difference, and the five families hold different numbers of items, so one sum would also weigh eating sounds three times as heavily as the visual item. No prevalence figure is printed either. Published estimates span a wide range because the field only recently agreed on a definition, and the figure depends heavily on whether the criterion requires significant distress or merely annoyance at trigger sounds.

This is a measurement exercise, not a clinical assessment. It reports what you did on this page against a stated reference and nothing more — it cannot establish misophonia. Only a qualified professional, working with more than a browser, can make that judgment.