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Clinically ADHD and suspected APD here. I also have excellent hearing in both ears (20k+ hz), but I’m shit at understanding conversations in noisy environments…
by mrexroad 1y ago
Clinically ADHD and suspected APD here. I also have excellent hearing in both ears (20k+ hz), but I’m shit at understanding conversations in noisy environments… especially if my wife is speaking. Her voice is markedly harder for me to process than other people’s when there’s background noise. She used to assume I was being ADHD and not paying attention, etc, and get frustrated, but after years of me visibly focusing on her with unreasonable intensity while listening, she started accepting it. It’s always ironic that my hearing is usually noticeably better than any friends or family (both in frequency range and noticing sounds), but I’m often the only one who can’t fully follow conversations at a restaurant/bar/conference/etc.
- Spooky23 1y agoYeah that’s remarkably similar to my experience. The only surprise is that my hearing was excellent — all of those punk shows in the 90s didn’t damage my hearing! If it bugs you, a good audiologist or instrumentation specialist can measure the frequencies impacted and mitigate it with hearing aids. I tried it, and i would best describe it like transitioning from 1080p to 4k. The gotcha is the hearing aids are expensive and it is difficult to get a diagnosis that insurance will cover as it’s technically not a hearing loss.
- kayodelycaon 1y agoSame. Excellent hearing but I can’t follow conversations in noisy places. I only catch every other word. It’s like my brain isn’t filtering out the noise in real time so it just stops hearing. Annoyingly, this can also affect video calls when people don’t speak clearly.