2025 Mission Critical Accomplishments and Work
The following are our accomplishments and projects during 2025, and our continued misophonia (and sensory related) commitments.
– Began drafting a proposal to submit to the APA for the addition of misophonia in the DSM. Also continued sharing our DSM/ICD petition to garner public support for this initiative.
– Published 3 guides for misophonia: a guide for clinicians, a guide for parents, and a guide for teachers.
– Published a free 90 page ebook based on Misophonia Matters by Shaylynn Hayes-Raymond on both Amazon and our website.
– Published free worksheets on our website.
– Published a free coloring book for coping with misophonia.
– Contacted Steam, Canva, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Nintento (and more) about on-going sensory considerations in their products.
– Continued testing products to review for the misphonia and sensory community.
-March 2025 began work on a free misophonia support app.
– March 2025, received word from Microsoft that blinking text cursor (caret) has been removed from Edge and Teams on Mac (with more to follow).
2023-2024 Mission Critical Accomplishments and Work
The following are our accomplishments in our first year of operation, and our continued misophonia (and sensory related) commitments.
We made several strides toward our mission goals in the past year:
• Facilitated research studies and surveys on misophonia, misokinesia, and sensory processing disorders (we have completed 3 studies ready for the next part of analysis)
• Developed books and materials related to misophonia (Misophonia Matters published in March and we have another instalment coming out in October)
• Hosted an on online web conference in May (2024)
• Currently planning a second conference for research / community (for 2025, details to come soon)
• Provided a Clinician Directory for persons with misophonia to find clinicians that is actively updated
• Actively facilitating and promoting petitions that serve the misophonia/misokinesia/sensory communities (currently we have a petition to get misophonia in the DSM and ICD)
• Submitted our commentary to the active ICD proposal for misophonia.
• Created an Institutional Review Board (IRB) for misophonia research
• Created an academic journal for misophonia and developing guidance for editors of this journal
• Provided a web blog and news website that publishes the voices of sufferers of misophonia, their loved ones, clinicians, and researchers at www.misophoniainternational.com (pre-dates the IMF)
• Developed a web show for persons with misophonia, loved-ones, researchers and clinicians that is widely accessible and free and includes live Q&A. This show is also released at times through a podcast.
• A mix of free and paid webinars to provide education to clinicians, parents, teens, and adults with misophonia
• Developed classes for clinicians, parents, and adults/teens with misophonia
• Created resources for researchers, clinicians, and sufferers of misophonia
• Provided assistive technology for coping with misophonia/misokinesia such as headphones, sensory regulation items, earplugs, and other useful tools for coping (we made donations of earplugs, earbuds, headphones, and even a laptop).
• Contacted developers of operating systems, gaming systems, software, websites, and other technology to advocate for more sensory friendly design. We led a petition to ask Microsoft, Apple, and other industry leaders to implement changes for both misophonia and misokinesia. Apple has since created an option to remove the blinking text cursor caret | for users who choose to, a key part of our campaign. We are in active talks with Microsoft, Google, Affinity, and Canva at this time for more accessibility features.
• Consulted with other Misophonia organizations, researchers and practitioners and reached out to offer a community approach (misophonia alliance)
If you would like to help us continue our work, please consider donating! We are a registered 501 (c) (3) in Missouri, USA.
On-going Mission Goals and Projects
– Facilitating research studies and surveys on misophonia, misokinesia, and sensory processing disorders
– Creating an Independent Review Board (IRB) for misophonia research
– Creating an academic journal for misophonia and developing guidance for editors of this journal
– Providing a web blog and news website that publishes the voices of sufferers of misophonia, their loved ones, clinicians, and researchers at www.misophoniainternational.com
– Developing a web show for persons with misophonia, loved-ones, researchers and clinicians that is widely accessible and free
– Providing a Clinician Directory for persons with misophonia to find clinicians
– Creating resources for researchers, clinicians, and sufferers of misophonia
– Contacting developers of operating systems, gaming systems, software, websites, and other technology to advocate for more sensory friendly design
– Planning an in person conference for research / community
– Expanding research goals and filling the gaps in existing misophonia literature
– Developing books and materials related to misophonia
– Consulting with other Misophonia organizatons, researchers and practitioners
– Facilitating and promoting petitions that serve the misophonia/misokinesia/sensory communities
– Providing reviews on products that might be helpful to persons with misophonia
– Creating and publishing translations of misophonia resources for different populations
– Providing assistive technology for coping with misophonia/misokinesia such as headphones, sensory regulation items, earplugs, and other useful tools for coping