09/18/2025
Do you know the volunteers in the Misophonia Association work so hard through months of effort to put together these amazing annual conventions? And it’s just so much fun and so exciting to plan out each year of content that would engage both youth and adult adults and we gather more and more people around us as we’ve carried on here for the past 12 years p.
And we get these amazing individuals who come to the conventions and then who go out in the world and they do amazing things for Misophonia.
One of my favorites has been the most amazing creator of Misopod whose name is Adeel who had a brilliant idea to interview people with Misophonia and make these available for others to listen to and you know he’s done over 200 interviews at this point and he’s carrying on with new activities that he’s creating that will be helpful for people with Misophonia.
Another incredible person is Michael Mannino, who is a brain scientist and who has presented in a number of our conventions and who has also carried on faithfully with his work in the field of Misophonia and contributed greatly overtime to the whole movement .
And there are so many others as well who were just appearing overtime and for me that time period is the last 29 years and they showed up people like Joyce Cohen an author for The New York Times who wrote articles about Misophonia and so many other people that I could name here .
All the volunteer hours that are crowded into a year to put together another incredible convention happen from January through October. And that includes locating proper speakers or presenters and creating activities that will be fruitful and meaningful as well as putting together special classes for youth who might be attending and then things like planning the menu so nothing crunchy or loud or obnoxious is going to be served.
We have the most wonderful board of directors. I just have to tell you I couldn’t be more thrilled with the work. They have done amazing ing work over these past 12 years and they continue to bring positivity and creativity and unique points of view to every meeting. These people include Dr. Jaffe, Dr. Cindy Simon, John Smoot, Troy Rysedorph, and Nate Goodluck-Johnson.
Now we have hired a new office manager and communications director this summer and that is Jaci Hoffman.
She has brought amazing gifts to the Misophonia Association with her talents in writing and designing and Webb things and ideas and organization, as well as creative solutions for helping us grow stronger and better and bigger. She is such a pleasure to work with, and I can’t say enough positive things about her and how much she has added to our nonprofit association in our work in supporting people that have Misophonia.
Again, we are not tied into any particular developer of a treatment program or a research facility. We are a completely independent nonprofit sort of a Ground Zero group that is working on behalf of people with Misophonia all over the world in the most helpful and supportive way possible.
We put together conventions that bring many many different points of view two people with Misophonia, and so all of the people can benefit from participating in these meetings.
This year we’re choosing be really focusing on interactive workshops, and so we have chosen to avoid the virtual options because of the fact that most of these sessions are gonna be up close and personal with the attendees and it’s an invasion of privacy to film people in those situations. We do hope to return to some level of virtual inclusion in the future. If we can bring this off in a way that’s respectful and non-confidential.
I hope you will join us if you’re able to come for this incredible today program at the Embassy suites near the airport in Dallas, Texas. Remember to pack your cowboy hat for the line dancing and bring along your cowboy boots if you have any.
