Melissa Gilbert, famous for playing Laura Ingalls on “Little House on the Prairie,” revealed she suffers from the neurological disorder called Misophonia. The famous actress said she “sobbed” when she learned that her to certain sounds had an and part of a treatable . Gilbert admitted that ever since she was very young, she found it challenging to cope with sounds such as chewing, clapping, gum popping or nails clicking, which would lead her to anger, according to a recent interview by published Aug.
20. “If any of the kids chewed gum or ate or tapped their fingernails on the table, I would want to run away so badly,” she said. “I would turn beet red and my eyes would fill up with tears and I’d just sit there feeling absolutely miserable and horribly guilty for feeling so hateful towards all these people — people I loved,” she told People.
“I sobbed when I found out that it had a name and I wasn’t just a bad person,” 60-year-old Gilbert said. She’s now working alongside the at Duke University’s School of Medicine to create awareness about the disorder and help others that are suffering the way she did. She told fans her condition led to “a really dark and difficult part of my childhood,” and now that she understands what she is suffering from, she is finding ways to cope.
Gilbert explained misophonia is a condition in which people suffer from strong emotional, physiological responses to sounds and visual triggers, but her family didn’t unde.