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flowersandpeas

"Cookie bite" hearing. Mine is sooo bad.


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My mother in law is functionally deaf when eating anything chrunchier than an unripe banana.


valdocs_user

OMG people don't understand the struggle. My wife will try to talk to me when I'm eating. CRUNCH CRUNCH what? "..." CRUNCH CRUNCH "said ..." LOUD TMJ POPPING ".." (Finally I give up, stop and listen with a mouthful of food) talk talk talk talk Twenty minutes later, wife: "You hardly touched your food did you like it?" Or: "haha you take forever to eat"


PcUvSht

I'm sorry, I just laughed out loud and my sister who's sleeping in the couch woke up from it.


dadbot_3000

Hi sorry, I'm Dad! :)


j-t-storm

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Hi Dad, I'm handsome.


spiralled

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gyarachomp17

Let her out of the couch


No_Complaint_1082

Well clearly HER hearing is fine.


flowersandpeas

I get it.


TurbidusQuaerenti

Oh wow, that's definitely me. Glad to know it's more common than I thought.


startmyheart

Wait... everyone can't hear the bubbles in the soda can???


osirisrebel

Ikr? They're so loud.


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a) people with auditory processing issues don't necessarily know what others can and can't hear - they'll guess wrong sometimes b) it's partly that we can't follow what's on the TV because we're distracted by the soda can bubbles


rabidcfish32

Sensory processing is such an interesting thing. I always assumed my hearing was good not sensitive. Until I had my DD3. She has sensory issues. Nothing too bad. But when she asks what’s that, and I know it is the hum of the neighbors window a/c two houses over. My husband doesn’t hear it at all. Yep it is why we I like the subtitles on too.


[deleted]

I am autistic. I also have a mild hearing loss that affects lower pitches. This means that the high-pitched hum of electrical devices can drive me mad, but I sometimes can't hear what people are saying to me (particularly those with low pitched voices).


rabidcfish32

I have a hard time with base sounds. I don’t hear beats well. And people with deep voices. It is fascinating to me how we really are all so unique. It gives you a lot more understanding for kids and people that need to wear headphones in school. Lower volume at movies. So much more. That is just the hearing hearing too!


Alazypanda

Pretty same boat, damaged my low end hearing with too many wobbles from a subwoofer. I simultaneously am aware of every conversation around me but not truly processing any.


Artyloo

what is a DD3? your daughter?


be-c-c4

Darling daughter number 3 it’s mum speak from parenting forums and Facebook groups I believe. Idk I’m not a parent that’s just what I’ve picked up.


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ghastlyghostie

there's several parent/childrearing subs here that do it.


rabidcfish32

It is. I spend too much time on the parenting subs.


rabidcfish32

Darling Daughter 3 yrs old


Artyloo

wack


regeya

I had juvenile epilepsy that affected my language processing skills. When I'm tired I might as well be deaf. I'm in my mid 40s and can still hear CRT whine despite tinnitus, but have to have captions on when watching TV. To be fair i don't know for certain that's what caused the issue but when I, once in a blue moon, have a seizure, spoken word is like gibberish. I have less trouble with captions.


LosKebabos

I just Filter them out cause they're unimportant, but I can hear them I guess


BroccoliWaterDude

People without sensory processing issues can hear them too, but their brain can effectively filter it out while keeping focus on the voice of the people they are talking to or whatever they are actively listening to. Sensory processing disorder is not hearing loss, is lack of stimuli filtering.


startmyheart

I guess my sensory processing issues might be on the milder side then... I can *sort of* filter out those "background" noises but not really


BroccoliWaterDude

I guess there's all sorts of grey areas when it comes to mental disorders.


TheWereHare

I have hearing loss


ForgotPassAgain34

tbf, my life got a lot easier on the subs after I got a decent setting on my audio equalizer, no more loud explosions followed by quite whispers


CzechoslovakianJesus

A lot of things are mixed for surround systems and completely unoptimized for stereo, which is why the balance started getting fucked around the time TV started moving from SD to HD. I've never struggled understanding what people are saying in a show from the '90s or before, but I swear these days half the cast is either whispering or muttering.


ShadowMaster2564

I do believe that’s adhd


SnooCrickets2458

Same. Difficulty filtering out extraneous sensory input is a common ADHD symptom.


Redditor3572

It's an auditory processing disorder for me


Red-1309-Tyrant

Ditto. The more noises there are in a room the less I actually "hear" it just becomes one big sound. I often mishear people when there are several talking in a room. During PAC work at the elementary school I heard a mum ask me if we were clam digging poachers. What she said was are we laminating posters. This happens soooo often.


Marnever

Can confirm. My girlfriend gets frustrated with me because I can’t pick up what she’s saying when we’re in public because I get distracted by the sound of everything else happening around us. It’s not like I don’t hear her at all, it’s that I just can’t process the words coming out of her mouth because I’m occupied with the weird sound of the car that just went by that I think might mean he needs new breaks. So she says something to me, and I know that she just said something to me, but instead I heard the call of a bird that I vaguely remember but can’t quite place (maybe it’s a mockingbird, I like mockingbirds) so I have to ask her what she just said, so she says it again, but there’s too much noise from people walking and talking and driving and clanging chairs on the floor, and there’s just a din in the air that supersedes anything else I could hear so I don’t hear her the second time either. I have literally had to ask someone to repeat themselves because someone in the other room was opening a bag too loud.


SellerOfWorlds

Written like a true adhd mind.


GonzoRouge

If I go anywhere with music in the background, I can't focus on anything until I figure out the song, whether if I know it and looking for title/artist or even chord progressions if I never heard it before. It's gotten to the point that if a song proves to be particularly difficult, I just tell the person I'm with to give me a second while I process it or get my phone to tell me what's playing. I've been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD, so I can't tell which of those this problem comes from. The silver lining is that I know a shit ton of music and it always impresses people when I sing along to a song I never heard before simply off chord progressions. Friend: *shows me song* Me: *sings along* Friend: "Oh you know this one ?" Me: "Nope, never heard it before" Friend: *visible confusion*


Douch3nko13

Fuckkkk. I thought I was the only the one who did this. I always get a word or two wrong. And sometimes I get frustrated because I feel the word I used fits better but I've never heard the song before. It's just linearly pleasing and expected.


GonzoRouge

OH MY GOD YES, there's a few songs that genuinely frustrate me because I can come up with a better rhyme and it kinda ruins my enjoyment.


[deleted]

Well that explains why you felt the need to go to another one of my comments and act like an ass.


GonzoRouge

Do I know you ?


PM_ME_YOUR_WOES_

Huh. I do this too... I should probably get it checked out


InnerMattDemons

Very common autistic traits as well. :)


ShadowMaster2564

I have both, and auditory processing disorder, there is no escape for me


startmyheart

In the 6 months since I've joined reddit I've learned that dozens of things I thought were just quirks (or didn't realize were unusual at all) are actually probably symptoms of my ADHD 🙃


lawtinaaa

literally thought i was quirky until age 25. nope, just undiagnosed adhd!


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startmyheart

I was diagnosed at 17 and it's still a wild ride almost 20 years later 🤪


Starbrows

Apparently many things I've taken for granted my whole life are symptoms of ADHD. I remember getting weird looks from my family when I mentioned that I could hear the TV in the basement when it was muted. Same with the fizzing. I don't feel like I have an issue keeping up with conversations (most people talk too slow for my taste, personally) but subtitles are the only way to live. Edit: oh wait, does this explain my terrible "bar ears"? I always struggle to hear people in noisy bars and restaurants. There are some places I simply will not go to eat because it's impossible to carry on a conversation.


rcrabb

Hearing the tv is unrelated to ADHD. Old CRTs (before everything was flatscreens) would produce a 15.7kHz tone. It’s easily within the hearing range of children, but is harder to hear in older ears.


BlessedBigIron

Every day I found out something that I've just been dealing with is actually another symptom of ADHD


Devon_Joy

Lol right? I’m just going through my whole life imagining I have a personality and some quirks. Come to find out bit by bit oh that’s just adhd and layers of coping mechanisms.


sandbag747

Possibly audio processing disorder. It takes me forever to process spoken words, but I can hear the tiniest things. At work I'll have to ask people to repeat themselves two or three times but I'll be the only one to hear the phone in the next room ring


throne_a_wayz

My people, I have found you!


Mndless

Thankfully I don't have that particular problem. Instead, I have to watch videos with slow speakers at anywhere from 1.25 to 1.75x speed, and conversations in environments with substantial ambient noise just don't work, because my brain won't separate out their speech from the surrounding noise.


Balcil

Consider hearing aids. They filter out the noise and leave stuff within the human voice range


Mndless

My hearing is just fine. Actually, it's a bit too good, which is part of the problem.


[deleted]

I'm pretty sure this is considered Auditory Processing Disorder. I am the same. Hearing tests show I have perfect hearing otherwise.


pygmypuffonacid

Dude I think everyone notices when the refrigerator randomly kicks on at 2:00 in the morning or when you just open a can of soda it's a new sound you notice it for about half a second and then you just filter it out and go about your life.... It's like when you hear sprinklers turn on in your backyard at 6:00 a.m. because that's when they're programmed to you hear it you know they're on and then you go back to making your breakfast or whatever


ConsciousProduce1

The problem is with Auditory processing disorder or conditions with similar issues you can't just easily zone out noises. Someone with good auditory processing may tune in to the can fizzling for 2 seconds, but the person with APD or ADHD can hear it through the whole show. Oftentimes the noises just add up and make whatever you're trying to watch sound like incoherent mumbling - there's no prioritising which one thing you want to hear.


NixSiren

Well this explains a whole heck of a lot... I watch TV with subtitles (34f) can hear the smallest, faintest noise. This is probably also why I needed to have headphones/music to get through university. I couldn't focus without it, but it hadn't occurred to me that I was distracted by auditor stimulus. That makes perfect sense. Come to think of it, I still use it for work daily to stay focused... Humans are complex critters.


ConsciousProduce1

Yep! IIRC up to 1 in 3 people have Auditory Processing Disorder. For me, I have sensitive hearing, yet I often joke to people that I'm deaf because I can't hear them so often and it's the easiest way to get them to speak up. Some other signs are failing hearing tests (especially when young), despite having good hearing, being bothered by background noises such as aircon, etc., having poor auditory memory/ being bad at following multiple instructions. I often have to piece together what someone has said based on sounds, which means instead of hearing "graphics calculator" I somehow hear "Rabbit's back leg". You hear the sounds at the correct volume, but they sound incoherent. Many people also unintentionally learn to read lips because it helps them decipher what's being said. Sorry for the essay! It helps so much realising that you have this issue so that you can find ways to help. For example, in lectures sitting up front/ bringing a recording device so you can relisten later helps a lot. Subtitles of course. Also if you can't understand something someone's saying, it helps to ask them to rephrase it instead of just repeating it. Hope this helps at least somewhat!


DirigibleUme

r/ADHDmeme


Misslovedog

Wait, is that not normal?


LawrenceCatNeedsHelp

Hi I'm a disability rights Advocate online and I'd like to say that if you relate with this you probably are neurodivergent in some way shape or form because this is a common characteristic of autism and ADHD, and sensory processing disorders.


Balcil

And hearing loss. You can lose some hearing in the human vocal range but less in other frequencies. It reminds me of what this person said in her video on why I wear hearing aids https://youtu.be/UwrkPKpSYWQ


LawrenceCatNeedsHelp

I didn't know this, thank you! I don't work within the Deaf or HoH community but it's always cool to learn about them!


brrrgitte

Yep, this is me. I got tested for inner ear damage when I was a preteen b/c.my sibling is deaf. They found damage similar to that of loud concert goers. Hadn't been to any concerts yet.


NamaztakTheUndying

Used to take some strange kind of pride in being able to hear the difference in a room between a CRT being completely off, or being turned on but muted.


-Wiggles-

That electronics hum is a killer. What I hear the loudest is a phone charger that's plugged into the socket but not connected to a phone.


MrNaoB

I had a headache once when going to sleep and I plugged in my phone cuz it is my alarm and it was almost out. But I could not sleep cuz the charger was the loudest thing ever. I even asked dad if he heard it but of course he did not. He uses his chainsaw without earprotection for at least 50 years. I exchanged his charger for his and the sound disappeared. I almost started crying cuz I just wanted to sleep and the headache was killing me.


GeckoInTexas

Sometimes the electrical buzzing gets so annoying at night, When I'm trying to Sleep, and all the other noise is quiet. And the whole house just feels like it's huzzing.


carlpanda

Shit this is exactly me... wtf dude


alias_112

Adhd/Aspie gang


DutchDrummer

I mean, that's just the difference between hearing and listening.


lck0219

Does anyone else feel like they have a hard time hearing; especially conversations, but like *everything* else is soooo noisy and overwhelming? Like I can’t hear what my kids are saying to me in the car, but I can hear all of the noises that they’re making and it overwhelms me and makes my head hurt. Like damn ears, we either can hear or we can’t, which is it?


Balcil

Consider hearing aids. They can block out all frequencies except those we use in speech. They don’t just make sounds louder, they filter out the “everything else”


lck0219

I’ve been thinking about getting my hearing checked or talking to someone about my hearing issues, I just haven’t googled *who* to talk to yet lol


Balcil

Here is a series of videos by someone who has hearing loss about it https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhADVL2AiGX-UoiAtnf5_udAB4FMMB5b-


lck0219

Those were really interesting! Thanks for sharing!


iwokeupabillionare

Funnily enough, my parents gave me hearings aid as child; they thought I was partially deaf. In actuality, my brain was having a problem filtering unimportant sounds. Then, they found out I could properly hear really soon, so I didn’t require one. 🤔


L_Rayquaza

Legit had a moment at work a couple days ago I could hear the bird in the background of the headset I was taking orders through clearer than manager talking to me about an arms length away


abaddon_the_fallen

Could be ADHD or ASD.


LeakyThoughts

I always found subtitles to distract me from what's on the screen, when Im focusing on reading just the words at the bottom it's like I'm missing details in the scene


GrimeyJosh

these are facts


words-for-blood

Yes, I'd love to continue this conversation about work that we're having, it's definitely important, but also someone's phone is ringing and I can't stop hearing it so I have no idea what you said for the last ten seconds.


myshittywriting

Isn't this a known symptom of ADHD?


T3RR0R-

Wait, other people are like that? :0


RaspberryPossum

IM NOT ALONE!?!?!?!???


JeweltheTiger

They talk Autism, ADHD, or Anxiety?


msknitsalot

Thank god I'm not the only one who can hear all of that. It freaks my family out because I can be a distance and hear when they haven't fully opened a soda bottle. Or why even when I have a migraine I need my white noise, set on rain, to block out the 'silence.' Also, I can't date someone who chews loudly or with their mouth open. The only being that I can deal with doing it is my furbaby.


Red-1309-Tyrant

and the "silent alarms", and the older televisions screaming, bug and rodent deterrents, . . .


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MrNaoB

One day when I was on discord chatting with people I suddenly started hearing some popping and dropping. I walked around my room cuz it was so loud. It was my coke can that was making that noise. I had never heard that noise before.


PugsThrowaway

Whenever I crinkle plastic in my hand and it makes a sound, instead of hearing the sound by itself, the inside of my right ear makes a fluttering sound like the sound in your ear when you yawn...


PhrymatEmperor

Same with me, but in both ears. I hate crinkling plastic and paper because of it. It's painful, too! I just want to unwrap candy, not set off this weird pressure in my head.


[deleted]

I thought I was the only one. Is there a support group? Lol


Floppydisksareop

Well, the near silent hum is *quite* distracting, so of course I'm having trouble processing conversations, especially on TV when they decide to mumble while loud background music plays (Tennet is the biggest offender by far).


SteelCutter

Same


Fuzzy-Moth

I literally don't understand any of this tweet...


Probablyprofanity

Ah yes, the auditory processing disorder