Interesting, I'm the exact same, but so far hadn't come across anyone else with this issue. I think the two aspects might be related. Possibly the average brai

Interesting, I'm the exact same, but so far hadn't come across anyone else with this issue. I think the two aspects might be related. Possibly the average brain is more finetuned to recognize speech specifically, which comes at the cost of recognizing other sounds, but improves speech recognition. Ours are less finetuned, with the opposite effect.