Mad Cow
Welshers and Dawdlers Beware!
For most of my life, I have had the very typical symptoms of this, just did not have the name or "diagnosis" until a few years ago. I think it is hard for people to understand how real it is. I can be eating a meal with my family, and one of them will all of a sudden start chewing loudly (and don't even think about chewing gum around me) and it is like a switch gets flipped. It is not even irritation. It ranges from anger to flat out rage, and it is so involuntary.
I have coped for a long time by just removing myself from the situation. Things have gotten really tense lately now that I have a son-in-law that could be the loudest, most obnoxious eater in the northern hemisphere. I will just get up and walk away any more when they are over and he goes into overdrive. To make matters worse, it is like this guy is always hungry. He comes over and just starts eating with such vigor and decibel that I might qualify as a Catholic Saint for the miracle of me not flat out rage monstering on him. So far so good. I just give the wife a look, she nods, and I excuse myself. Daughter to this point has not made the connection.
How have my FFA brothers coped with this? Does it go from 1 to 11 for you as well?
I have coped for a long time by just removing myself from the situation. Things have gotten really tense lately now that I have a son-in-law that could be the loudest, most obnoxious eater in the northern hemisphere. I will just get up and walk away any more when they are over and he goes into overdrive. To make matters worse, it is like this guy is always hungry. He comes over and just starts eating with such vigor and decibel that I might qualify as a Catholic Saint for the miracle of me not flat out rage monstering on him. So far so good. I just give the wife a look, she nods, and I excuse myself. Daughter to this point has not made the connection.
How have my FFA brothers coped with this? Does it go from 1 to 11 for you as well?