Comments on: Repetition!

By: mmaria

mmaria — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:38:42 +0000

Thank you for your kind words and especially for mentioning comments. I would like people to feel free enough to write here their experience and thoughts because I really think that they’ll help to others who stumble upon this blog.
It’s also interesting that you mentioned “predictability” because I planned that to be my next post I’ll tell my thoughts about that particular “part” of Miso and I’m looking forward to hear more from you, to exchange some opinions.
RHCP – completely different with me. I liked them very much, but their music became very predictable and therefore, I can’t enjoy them any more
I’ll quote what you said about blinkers in the next post. I just hope I’ll get the time for writing it tomorrow.

By: RH

RH — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 02:39:41 +0000

great blog, the comments got me thinking too. All my triggers have one thing in common, they are predictable. In terms of music, one thing I love about the RHCP is that their lyrics are random and to be honest I don’t understand half of them…
Today I had an argument with the wife because she was ‘predictably’ using the blinkers for every single turn on the way to taking our daughter to gymnastics. The tick tock sound drove me nuts and the fact that it seemed unnecessary at every turn made it worse. Maybe if I can somehow make things unpredictable I’d not be bothered by them, but then I’d probably be arrested instead

By: mmaria

mmaria — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:10:15 +0000

My sincerest condolences for your loss Alex! I really can’t imagine how it is to lose somebody with whom your spent that many years…

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:00:07 +0000

Leonard Cohen = bliss for me too….. and his lyrics comfort me, and give me strength….especially at the moment; my husband of 34 years passed away on 29th May….so Leonard, and my cats, Spock and Data, are of great comfort…..

By: mmaria

mmaria — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:21:50 +0000

Interesting, I’m glad you wrote all of this.
I’ve just played a Cohen’s song
About repetitive activities… I know what are you saying, it’s the same with me. I was actually thinking to write about that too but the post would be much longer and I thought no one could relate… but here we are…

I liked math f.e. I liked finding “solution to problems” Everything would be interesting until the moment I find the solutions of the similar problems and in a similar way for a few times. After those few times the problems would just become boring and a burden for me to deal with it in the same way, over and over again…
When photography become “the same thing” I need to back off and take a break, don’t touch the camera for a while and change the type of photography when the break is over. When it’s about “mind activities” I get bored after it becomes too easy for me. When there’s no challenge for me to understand something.

It’s the same way with almost all of the activities I’ve done. The same path to the work is also one of the simplest examples of repetitive activities.

Repeating something I’ve just said or someone repeating something they’ve just said, drives me insane also! I get the same Miso reaction when that’s happening! And yes, how people ask me to repeat something plays a huge role in my reaction to their question. If they’re polite and ask nicely, with some gesticulation or facial expression that shows that they sincerely didn’t hear or understand me I’ll react better (my rage will be high but not as it would be if they were rude or something)

By: Kristie

Kristie — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:11:34 +0000

I know my dad has miso, though he says he is not bothered by triggers anymore, he has become more relaxed in his retired years, but he’s never liked music, as long as I could remember he would always listen to talk radio, he could listen to it all day, but I on the other hand couldn’t stand listening to the same news and weather reports every half hour. I love music, but in reading your post realized that my favorite songs have a variation in the rhythm. There are certain singers that I can not stand the sound of their voices, mainly men with a high pitch, but throw on Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits and I feel bliss. But in regards to repetition, I find that repetitive activities drive me insane. I could never work on an assembly line, and have tried working in a couple of call centres, but the repetition of the calls drove me insane. I don’t know if it is from boredom or is related to the miso (some how) but I really dislike repetitive activities, or even having to repeat what I say, especially if someone says ‘what?’ instead of ‘pardon me’ or ‘could you repeat that.’ It really makes me mad when people say ‘what?’ Being a stay at home mom on a starting farm has really brought this to light for me, with the daily chores and child care activities that need to be completed over and over again, with no break, sent me into a pretty deep depression. I know it isn’t repetition that is related to sound directly, but repetition is something that I really don’t like.

By: mmaria

mmaria — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:55:23 +0000

That was exactly what I was talking about Alex!

It’s the same with me, as soon as I become aware of certain characteristic sounds and movements, I can tolerate them a bit more but I’m aware that I’m done with that show/series or else. After a short period of time I come to the point where I can’t tolerate and I simply don’t watch them anymore.
There are many series I liked to watch but I just couldn’t stand them any more and I’m very sorry for that.

And… I can’t watch anything muted…visual triggers

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:44:46 +0000

One thing Im finding…
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….is that I can’t listen to radio, or watch tv, once I notice/ become aware of, certain speech sounds….very ‘plosive’, letters p, k, s, etc, pronounced in a certain way. There’s a quiz show here…Im in the UK …..called Pointless, which I was really beginning to enjoy, till I became aware of one of the presenters’ manner of speaking; any word with a’k’ sound….he says it as though he has a sweetie tucked into his cheek, at the side of his mouth, and is trying not to show it….so, I can only watch if muted.