'Little House on the Prairie' star Melissa Gilbert’s neurological disorder caused ‘difficult’ childhood

Melissa Gilbert is looking back on the darker days of her childhood and adult life caused by undiagnosed misophonia, a neurological disorder which promotes unusual responses to noise.

"If any of the kids chewed gum or ate or tapped their fingernails on the table, [in the on-set schoolroom] I would want to run away so badly," Gilbert told People. "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."  "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."  Lori Bashian is an entertainment production assistant for Fox News Digital. 

It was not until she became an adult that Gilbert learned there was a name for what she was experiencing. She found out she was suffering from a neurological disorder called misophonia, which causes the sufferer to experience emotional and physiological reactions to certain sounds and visuals.