Mark Proksch explains 'auditory sensitivities'
SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
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Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#12I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
A few years ago I realized that my dyslexia in the form of dyscalculia wasn't isolated. I have some minor auditory dyslexia which wasn't a surprise as much as OH that's what's happening. I rely on lip reading for context clues to fill in the gaps where I didn't understand what was said, and subtitles on pretty much everything. I have also have excellent hearing but for whatever reason my brain likes to hear gibberish instead of words at the beginning of most people's sentences.
I was never diagnosed as a kid because my reading skills were above average and being forced to write each step out in math was a good thing for me. (I just can't hold numbers in my head and they will twist if I try to concentrate on them.) In the long run, it hasn't been an issue for for my career, I let the computers do math and have rigorous double check habits. It has proven an issue with interactions as it can be difficult to know when to respond to someone as I can't tell who they speaking to if I don't have line of sight. I know that can make me feel cold and like I'm ignoring them intentionally when I just don't want to be the person who just constantly goes 'what?' all the time and explaining it is a rather tedious thing when it's someone who is just a work colleague.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#13What prevents a bad actor from wailing into their phone for 15 seconds and making a submission?
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#14I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
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Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#15I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
Might it be misophonia?
Might be if you have what seems like an extreme over-reaction to outsiders or haven't realized you may have Misophonia and can't figure out why you're feeling tension or "anxiety" for no apparent reason.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#16What prevents a bad actor from wailing into their phone for 15 seconds and making a submission?
I suppose you'd be better off staying away from them anyway.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#17I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
There's a lot of people that have this; I'm sure there's a formal diagnosis for it, but the people I know have sensory processing disorder, a co-morbidity of ADHD/autism, where they get overloaded in too noisy spaces, or as you describe, are unable to isolate individual voices in a loud space - to be fair, I think most people just pretend they can hear each other in areas like that.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#18What prevents a bad actor from wailing into their phone for 15 seconds and making a submission?
It should become statistically insignificant / an outlier / literal noise with enough submissions.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#19I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
My daughter was recently diagnosed with a similar thing, APD (auditory processing disorder). Her hearing is perfect, and she aced all the auditory tests except one - they played her the sound of a lot of voices talking in the background, and she had to listen to one of them. Despite being able to hear perfectly, something in the processing in her brain makes that an impossible task for her. The specific difficulty is "auditory stream segregation".
In her report, they mentioned software called "LISn and Learn". Looks like it's now called SoundStorm: https://www.soundstorm.app/clinicians/the-evidence. Maybe that might be of interest to you, although it looks like it's oriented at kids.
Re: SoundPrint: Telling those of us with auditory sensitivities where not to go
#20I am one of those people. I love music, and my hearing has recently been tested as "perfect", but I got the hearing test at the request of my wife because she thought I had a hearing problem. For me, everything is good until I am exposed to a loud environment. People around me can talk/understand each other just fine, but I get overwhelmed. After discussing my problem with the audiologist, he recommended a neurologis…
Might it be misophonia? Might be if you have what seems like an extreme over-reaction to outsiders or haven't realized you may have Misophonia and can't figure out why you're feeling tension or "anxiety" for no apparent reason.
Misophonia is based in a severe dislike of very specific sorts of sounds (like chewing or swallowing), not a general cacophony. There may be overlap, but people with misophonia are usually quite conscious of the sounds they cannot stand.