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I was wondering if anyone of you guys have failed hearing tests at school. I know I have and yet I still have huge sensory issues with sound. During hearing tests, they always told me to listen closer to the beeps but I still couldn't hear them and I failed my hearing tests every time... that's I was wondering if anyone else was like this?

If you're talking about the test where they put headphones on you and it beeps... if you are not hearing then you should get checked by a specialist.

..or is it some other kind of test?

This and my hearing isn't bad enough so that I can't hear anything at all. I mean I usually hear things that others don't hear... but its just sometimes, when I took those tests, I could never hear the beeps and I was wondering if it was just because my mind couldn't circulate what it had to do to hear them... I mean no matter how hard I tried... I kept failing my hearing tests.

Interesting. Have you been checked by an inner ear specialist? Seems like you may have less hearing in one ear than the other (if it is a physical problem with your inner ear).

Oh yeah! I do have that problem. BEcause I actually had lots of ear infections as a child and I have trouble with hearing in my right ear. I am always talking on the phone with my left ear... because I never hear so well with my right ear... my psychiatrist called it... something... can't remember what it was...

Do you have difficulty in hearing speech in the presence of background noise (or multiple people speaking at the same time and you just can't 'tune out' the others)?

Yeah sometimes...

I grew up in a scuba diving family so I remembered that when divers get ear damage they start to have trouble with the doppler effect of sounds being detected differently in each ear and the person's brain kind of scrambled trying to make sense out of different signals sent by each ear.

Depending on how young you were when the hearing loss started, there's also this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_hearing_loss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_p ... g_disorder

In any case its no big deal. I think a hearing aid on the damaged ear fixes all that. Your inner ear specialist person would know a lot more of course

Well, I think it could also be part of me having Asperger Syndrome too... I've never really felt bothered by it since I do hear fine but its just... its more like it only happens in a flare up where I am hearing something I need to hear... but I can't hear it very well and then I miss out on what I was supposed to hear... any other time it usually seems like I'm hearing things I DON'T want to hear better than I am when I hear things I should be hearing. Sometimes my ear will start hurting, my right ear, kind of outer-wise and then it leads to a headache... so I don't know if there is a bit of hearing loss there or if its just something to do with having Asperger's syndrome and ADHD.

Not only that but there are times when I get those random ghost beeps where my ears start ringing or beeping for a few seconds and then it fades away... it happens kind of randomly too.

I'm somewhat the opposite. I have tinnitus and hyper-sensitive hearing (can hear into the dog-whistle range).

YEah I know... I have that same thing. I am very hypersensitive if sirens go by or motorcycles are running, dogs are barking, kids or babies are screaming... those things can cause me to cover my ears. There are times if too many people are talking at once and I can get overloaded and just plug my ears to have more silence... its usually when I NEED to hear something and I can't hear it... I only hear the things that bother me the most and send me into a sensory overload.

I found that part to be right in your symptoms..it does mention ear infections as a probable cause plus AS. Maybe you have a little of both who knows

Now that you mention it... it does seem likely... *looking at the symptoms*

I also didn't start speaking until I was four... and after I still had problems with speech and communication. I do have trouble reading out loud and when I do, I mess up a lot and sometimes I always pass on reading because its so troubling.