'Rare condition means I'm forced to eat Christmas dinner alone every year- it broke my parents' A teenager has shared he hopes one day he can get over his rare condition and finally be able to enjoy eating a Christmas dinner with his family.
Grayson Whitaker, from Leeds, has lived with misophonia, a condition that causes an extreme emotional reaction to certain everyday noises and it means the sound of people chewing leaves him enraged and it's so bad he can't eat in the same room as them.
The three main sounds that will disturb people with misophonia are eating, nose and throat sounds, and repetitive environmental sounds like keyboard tapping and rustling paper.
According to NHS, Misophonia is an "extreme emotional reaction to certain everyday sounds that most people would find relatively easy to ignore".
It's a condition he's had since he was a child, and he has to lock himself in his bedroom to avoid getting into a rage - something that has left his parents Alex, 51, and Dawn, 54, "broken".
