Exploring Different Brains: Life With Misophonia

Self-advocate Michael Tollefsrud shares his history with misophonia – a condition where people have negative emotional responses to specific oral sounds (eating, breathing, talking).

Michael A. Tollefsrud is a 25-year-old graduate of North Carolina Central university with Master’s Degree in General Psychology. Having suffered with Misophonia for years, Michael made it the focal point of his master’s thesis “Obsessed with Sound: An Investigation into Misophonia And Its Relation To Memory”.