“Misophonia” may be the other side of the coin to ASMR; it is the revulsion felt at the fingernails-on-chalkboard sound. I have experienced both; soft clicky voices can trigger ASMR, but squeaky noises can trigger misophonia. I had a hell of a time unwrapping saran-wrapped sandwiches at school as a kid, because the sound made me almost physically ill. So maybe some kind of hypersensitivity is a factor in both.
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