I can't stand hearing people chew!

I feel the same way. I wish it didn't annoy me so much because I don't want to be one of those people that gets annoyed with everything. But the sound of people chewing just makes me want to hit them in the face.

Oh, me too.
Sometimes, if the loud chewing/eating is in a quiet area, I imagine myself punching them and shouting as loud as I can, 'JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP WILL YOU'.
I have to fight the urge to do this.
It seems that noisy eating really brings out the potential violence in us. I would never dream of hurting another person apart from in this situation.

I hate hearing my mum and my younger sister chew. They are so loud and annoying. My mum gets a cup full of ice, and sits next to you crunching and slurping the ice very loudly, and makes a slapping noice with her lips, and it always seems to happen when I'm trying to concentrate on something or watch tv, and it's very distracting. It shits me so much. But to make it worse, she eats very very slowly, and she eats A LOT. Then she'll sit there and pick her teeth and lick her fingers etc. If she wasn't my mum, I probably would've slapped her hard by now. My sister is he exact same. I've brought it up with them but they just tell me to ignore it. I've got a better idea though. How about they just have some damn respect for others and shut the hell up! They wonder too why my dad and I won't eat out with them... Very embarrassing.

But literally. My stepdad is a really loud chewer. I can't STAND to hear him chew salad, for example. Or my sister, when she eats an apple, I feel like killing myself.

I hate it too. It's like nails down a chalkboard to me. I also hate it when people glug down their drink noisely. Some days it's worse than others and I hear even quiet people swallowing liquid - it's like because I've tuned into it the sound is amplified and I actually can't stop myself from telling them to swallow quietly with gritted teeth. I get looked at like I'm off my rocker all the time. I FUCKEN HATE IT!

i can't stand it either, but never to the point where I want to actually harm someone. Calm down.

fuck, the bitch spotted me.

My sister does this constant loud chewing think. No matter how many times you tell her to EAT WITH HER MOTH CLOSED, she never listens.

omfg i think im normal. Cuz I thought i was the only one with this problem.. now i understand why my friend told me to go on this site.. this is for people like me!! i feel like slappin people who make noises while chewin omg where are your manners ppl..

im exactly the same, it just annoys me sooooooo much, so i bring my ipod everywhere xxxxx

Up until a couple of years ago, I hated it, but it did not drive me into anger. Now that
sound instantly fills me with a violent rage and I have to use extreme restraint not
to smash that person's head into a table. The sound of keyboards and pen clickings don't have nearly as much effect on me, and even screeching blackboards don't drive me
to the high level of pure rage chewing does.

I also suspect that I may have the MAOA gene (the so called "warrior gene"), I wonder if there is any relation?

It's strange that the sound of chewing doesn't really bother me much. I love watching videos on YouTube of people eating and in the comments there is always at least one comment from someone complaining about the sounds the person in the video makes when they chew, like one person said "Stop smacking your lips like a motherfucking cow" lol.

When my class and I was doing a lab a few days ago, there was this kid named Isaac who sat right on my left side, and he scooted his chair diagonally left behind me, and he chewed the gum in his mouth as LOUD as he could. It angered me, but what could I have said? STFU? No, I would rather sit there and scoot forward, stare at him a couple times, and then continue learning with experience of the life we all shit and live in. Forgive & forget. Bastards. Ah. He's a good kid but people you think are great wouldn't really react the same way they react to other things as to you. That's why it's hard. FAOOL! (Fuck All Of Our Lives)

I go through the same nonsense. I hate it with a passion i actually blated out and called my fiance's brother a bitch for chewing the chips. I have bad anixety so that contributes to the frustration. I tried to explain to people that it is not the correct way to chew with your mouth open because you are letting air intoyour stomach which blows you up with a big belly. Thats my theory. lol But i can not stand it iturn the tv up to avoid it. I sit in a different room to also tried to avoid it. It hasto be a mental issue nothing serious. Just didnt think that otherpeople was expierencing the same issue.

I am the exact same way and my family hates it when I ask them to stop chewing with their mouth open. I looked on this one website and it says that Noise Anxiety might be the reason for hating the sound

So very normal. I thinks its not only annoying but gross when ppl chew loudly and with their mouth open.

Yes this is very noermal... for "us" at least! Sometimes it gets to the point where I actually find myself staring at the person making the horrifying sounds .... ohhh god it's giving me the heebie jeebies!

I can't stand hearing people chew either. And you wouldn't imagine, considering I love to cook for people and I LOVE TO EAT. But I find it the most disgusting thing ever. Animals chewing too.

I cant stand that sound. My brothers always smack their lips and it makes me want to reach across the table and knock the food out of their mouth. It grosses me out so badly. Yuck!

My brother often smacks his gums like a cow when he's eating. It REALLY gets on my nerves.

Same. Everyone hates it.

I get that way too, not with everyone. I remember I sat in this breakroom one day, and this lady came in to eat her lunch, and she not only chewed loud, she grunted as she ate. It was absolutely disgusting! It is totally normal to get annoyed by that, if it's someone chewing rather quietly, that's a OCD thing... but if they are obnoxiously chewing, totally understandable. After sitting with the chewing, grunting, pig in the breakroom about three times, I told her to knock it off. SHe never ate in the breakroom again. Weeeee!! :D

Very normal.

Same, which is interesting because... not even 3 weeks ago i was asking somebody if i was weird for feeling the same way....

it was one of my moms relatives who were eating right next to my at the time, smacking her lips and making those wet sounds as she ate... whatever it is she was eating. I had to fight to keep the revulsion off my face.... ... ... ...

so yeah, we just get annoyed easily not a big deal...

I think you're normal to feel that way.

It's good manners to not make a crap-load of noise when you are eating. Nobody should want to sound like a pig eating slop when they are eating and nobody wants to hear people eating like that either.