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Yea, I second this. I had my hearing tested and the results came out "very good." I talked with the doctor and she basically said that what is most likely happ
by soapboxrocket 7y ago
Yea, I second this. I had my hearing tested and the results came out "very good."
I talked with the doctor and she basically said that what is most likely happening with me is that I have "better" hearing than most and this is what is making it difficult to hear. She said what is probably happening is that I hear a lot of ranges outside the test window and/or I just hear the lower background noises better than I hear human vocal range.
She talked about how she would like to do an experiment that allowed testing to be expanded but didn't have the resources or time to try it.
- magduf 7y agoThis sounds like me; I seem to have great hearing (I can still hear those "mosquito" devices used to annoy teenagers even though I'm over 40), but I have a hard time understanding human speech when there's a lot of ambient noise. Noisy restaurants are very unpleasant for me, and I'm constantly asking people to repeat themselves.
- soapboxrocket 7y agoYup, exactly my problem and why I went in for the test. Told that I just need to ask people to constantly repeat themselves.
- bsimpson 7y agoI had that experience after attending an overly loud concert a couple months ago - had a much easier time hearing the cacophony of noise in the cafe than I did the person I was supposed to be having lunch with. Got a hearing test and learned I have better than average hearing for a person in his 30s, but there's no baseline since I hadn't been tested as an adult before. Still haven't figured out if the concert gave me tinnitus, or if the fright of it has made me hyperaware of aural sensations and less tolerant of what I considered "normal" before.
- magduf 7y agoI always, always wear earplugs to concerts. Once you have hearing damage, it never gets better.