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What does it say about me that I'm getting better at filtering those kinds of noises? Not that they don't bother me at all, but that I'm better at not letting them completely throw me like they used to.
It says that you're not a self righteous autistic leaning into sensory intolerance and confusing it for intelligence.
You know what is an actual, proven sign of low IQ? Being unable to filter background noise and focus on a specific sound, specifically voices in noisy environments. The higher the IQ, the better people usually perform noise filtering tests.
They even made up a word for it (misophonia) so they could be victims of a special disease instead of just being autistic.
Misophonia is an extreme dislike of certain sounds, not an inability to filter out noise from audio signal.
Just to steelman them, it makes more sense if you presume that was directed at my first statement rather than the second.
Not that I think misophonia is usually considered a mark of intelligence, but it is a pretty subjective diagnosis and a tempting excuse to lean into sensory intolerance instead of exercising mental restraint.