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I'm in my early thirties. My misophonia is the defining factor in my relationship with my Dad and has been since I was a young teenager. I definitely get how awful it can be.
I can offer a few suggestions. Try to always have background music at mealtimes. Just put on a CD or something. I can say for myself it buffers the intensity of my misophonia reactions a bit because at least I have something else to focus on. I just tell my parents I like to have music on at mealtimes and kept putting some on, so now they just accept it as a habit when I am around.
make friends with earplugs and earbuds and always have both with you. Invest in some good noise cancelling earbuds. Get into wearing hoodies as well. I will often put in at least one earplug to dull the sound and wear my hood up so people can't tell I'm wearing an earplug. I know that probably sounds super weird and anti-social but if it's that or deal with misophonia noises I'll put my hood up.
When you have to eat around them rest your head on the hand you aren't using to eat with and subtly plug one hear. At least you only hear half the noise that way. It requires having that elbow on the table so you can elevate that hand next to your ear without it looking totally awkward, but your in your early twenties now so the time for parents being able to tell you how to eat has passed.
best thing is probably to try and get her to take misophonia seriously as a condition. I found a documentary about misophonia at http://www.quietpleasefilm.com/ , I haven't watched it yet so I can't speak to it's quality but just the fact that someone produced a documentary gives a little weight and legitimacy to misophonia as a condition I think. I'm going to try watching it with my family as see if they will take me more seriously.
There are a couple books about misophonia
In my opinion they both had useful things in them.