u/Granitic_Moon

I've accepted that I'll never have a normal life.

I've accepted I might never have a partner because I can't stand sound. It's hard to find someone that understands that you need to not be around them when they eat and that you can't just spontaneously start eating around me.

I'm very lucky to be able to live with family right now, but I have to run a noise machine at all times so that I can't hear anything. I almost never leave my room. Someone is always eating.

I can barely be in public. It's hard for me to learn how to drive since the family
member who teaches me always moves her lips and it makes me want to scream.
I have to wear headphones at all times in public if the space is quiet enough. If someone eats all I want to do is make them feel the pain it makes me feel.

I've genuinely considered making myself deaf. I suppose that wouldn't work since I also can't see the eating either. I'd have to be blind, too. I already have tinnitus from listening to music so loudly in school so I couldn't hear.

I'm afraid I won't be able to work.

I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. I'd take a physical disorder if it meant this went away.

"Sex refers to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female. Sex is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of gender identity."

This was listed below the "pick your sex" box. Won't be applying, obviously. I'm worried about things like this becoming more common in the future. I'm not sure if the university itself posted this or if it's some sort of law in that state (Wyoming.)

Not devastated about it but damn. Grad school is too expensive to deal with this bullshit