Just found this sub today, and I'd be grateful for a crowd-sourced opinion.

A few months ago one of my best friends got a new roommate, and the roommate and I have been becoming pretty good friends.  He and I are pretty candid with one another, talk about various life stuff, and joke around a lot.  He's also the only person I know that will call instead of texting, and he and I have had a few good phone convos in the past few months (I know! In 2018-2019!).

Anyways, things have been going pretty well, and I'm happy to have made a new friend.  The only problem is, I can not STAND hearing him eat.  I'm very sensitive to "mouth-noises," and the sound of someone opening their mouth while chewing is one of the most uncomfortable sounds I've ever experienced; it's like nails on a chalkboard times 10 for me.  It's not something I can think away either, it's an uncontrollable physical response to hearing someone open their mouth while chewing.

Now I realize that this is MY problem, and I don't want to tell anyone how they should eat.  And I've also avoided the situation a few times by just not eating with him.  Except there have been many times when I'm hanging out with my other friend (his roommate), and he'll sit next to me on the couch and eat his dinner, and I'll be crawling out of my skin with how uncomfortable I am.  I even lean as far away as I can and nonchalantly cover my closest ear, and it's still not enough. He is honestly the loudest chewer I've ever met in my life.

So here's the question: WIBTA if I talked to him about it?  He has OCD and I have OCPD tendencies, and he and I have talked about our "things," so I feel like bringing it up in that context might work? I realize that this is *my* issue, and I plan on framing it as such.  I just don't know what else to do; I can't just up and leave the room every time he's around me with food.

Thanks for any input, Reddit!

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