My misophonia triggers overlap a lot with jaw dysfunction: dysfunctional mouth sounds, breathing, and pronunciation differences that are related to the global epidemic of jaw, face, dental, and breathing problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I first read the hypermirroring paper, I became almost convinced that there was some fundamental connection between miso and jaw dysfunction; perhaps even that jaw dysfunction was somehow the cause<\/em> of misophonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I couldn’t make that theory work and ultimately realised, especially after reading Tom Dozier’s work, that my particular jaw dysfunction-related triggers are just my triggers. (Whole person.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, there are two interesting elements that remain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Firstly, mouth-related triggers are common and jaw dysfunction is common. Snoring and other forms of sleep disordered breathing are an underappreciated health issue in industrialised societies. Jaw clicking and popping (TMJD), and various other sounds indicative of structural (skeletal) distortion, such as snorting when laughing, are also common triggers. Maybe misophonics are, on a large scale, picking up on something objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Secondly, reflexes may be involved in both the misophonic process and some of the ways we compensate for jaw dysfunction. Specifically, I compensate for tongue restriction by recruiting jaw, neck, and craniofacial muscles to move my tongue. This is speculative, but I wonder if these compensations could become reflexes. This would be an interesting possibility to explain my experience with self-triggering, which seemed to come from the very shape of my mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (This, to my mind, lends further support to Dozier’s model versus something that requires social cognition, because self-triggering couldn’t be explained by such a mechanism without resorting to some general mechanism like associative learning to connect non-social stimuli to the misophonic mechanism. The reflex model cleanly accounts for basically any trigger you can think of, without any of these crutches.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My misophonia triggers overlap a lot with jaw dysfunction: dysfunctional mouth sounds, breathing, and pronunciation differences that are related to the global epidemic of jaw, face, dental, and breathing problems. When I first read the hypermirroring paper, I became almost convinced that there was some fundamental connection between miso and jaw dysfunction; perhaps even that … Continue reading Misophonia and the jaw epidemic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/card.gushogg-blake.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}