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Wait, you think if you had been born with tinnitus you would have just intuited the fact that it wasn't normal and others couldn't hear it? I don't think you pu

• overcast 8y ago
  I think most people have enough intelligence to realize something is wrong. Why go to the doctors at all then? Surely my problems must be normal for humans. Sure, as a young child you'd not think about it. But as an adult, you're telling me you wouldn't question that? Come on.
  • Raphmedia 8y ago
    Sure, perhaps if you tinnitus is the sound of a plane landing. But for a faint constant tone that your brain filters out unless you are in total silence? Why go to the doctor at all?
  • Barrin92 8y ago
    >Why go to the doctors at all then? Many people do in fact not seek medical attention for problems they have had for very long amounts of time. People are quite adaptable. If you have grown up with some peculiar trait that nobody else has it is not so easy to notice that something is off as we learn to work around it seamlessly, the same is often true in people who suffer from depression, it can be easy to just accept it as the normal state of affairs. I also doubt that this is related to intelligence. On the contrary, it often seems that people with high aptitude have a particular talent for rationalising conditions that set them apart from others. This, for example, shows up in certain political biases, where higher education among some groups correlates with worse understanding about facts. (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/14/upshot/climate-change-by-education.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/14/upshot/climat...)