One of my players has Misophonia, any solutions? /u/Top_Wishbone_4240 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

Hello,

I am DM25 and one of the players( Player S) in my party has misophonia. I am a brand new DM for my DND campaign and one of my girlfriend’s pals was interested. We played our first session and it went smoothly, we all shared laughs and had a great time, Player S included. She reached out to my girlfriend and then myself stating that while she did have a great time, she didn’t know if she would be able to continue the campaign with us. This is when she revealed that she has misophonia and it was the very first time I had heard of it. Immediately I began researching it because I want to find a way for her to continue the campaign.

Her strain of misophonia has to do with oral fixations like chewing, sneezing, coughing, sniffing ect. Our campaign is a virtual one so we are on essentially a 3 hour facetime call. so the solutions i proposed thus far, are as follows: Having all participants mute themselves when they are not speaking, having all participants try to rely on our text chat to reduce the necessity of speaking to lessen the sounds, wearing ear buds during the call the reduce sensitivity, alerting all participants of the triggers so that as often as they can remember they can mute themselves if they have to do any of the aforementioned sounds, and finally more breaks in a session to give her some time away from the noises.

Player S was pleased with my response, but I want to know if there is any more that I can do. Any Ideas??

Update: Thanks you guys for all the recommendations I’m gonna try having the whole group use the push to talk function and the noise suppression on discord and hopefully it will reduce any symptoms that my player experiences. Thank you for all the helpful responses!!

Hello,

I am DM25 and one of the players( Player S) in my party has misophonia. I am a brand new DM for my DND campaign and one of my girlfriend’s pals was interested. We played our first session and it went smoothly, we all shared laughs and had a great time, Player S included. She reached out to my girlfriend and then myself stating that while she did have a great time, she didn’t know if she would be able to continue the campaign with us. This is when she revealed that she has misophonia and it was the very first time I had heard of it. Immediately I began researching it because I want to find a way for her to continue the campaign.

Her strain of misophonia has to do with oral fixations like chewing, sneezing, coughing, sniffing ect. Our campaign is a virtual one so we are on essentially a 3 hour facetime call. so the solutions i proposed thus far, are as follows: Having all participants mute themselves when they are not speaking, having all participants try to rely on our text chat to reduce the necessity of speaking to lessen the sounds, wearing ear buds during the call the reduce sensitivity, alerting all participants of the triggers so that as often as they can remember they can mute themselves if they have to do any of the aforementioned sounds, and finally more breaks in a session to give her some time away from the noises.

Player S was pleased with my response, but I want to know if there is any more that I can do. Any Ideas??

Update: Thanks you guys for all the recommendations I’m gonna try having the whole group use the push to talk function and the noise suppression on discord and hopefully it will reduce any symptoms that my player experiences. Thank you for all the helpful responses!!