For people over 25, can you hear the "teen buzz"?

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I don't hear it exactly I feel it like ice picks straight to the brain and I'm over 50.

I could only hear the 8 kHz until I turned my volume way up, then I could hear the next higher one.

I can tell you exactly when I lost a big chunk of my hearing. It was about 15 years ago at something they called the "BFD" concert. It was an outdoor rock concert with a whole bunch of artists like The Pretenders and Chris Isaak. I had been to concerts before and knew they were loud, but this was UNBEARABLE. It was so loud, I felt like I was being punched HARD in the chest over and over. It was scary. So, I left my seat and went outside the arena. There was no escape from the noise. I would have had to go into the parking lot for it to not be painful, but I was with people, and couldn't do that. It was so awful. Everyone else seemed to love it, though. Oh, and yes, I had come prepared with earplugs. It made no difference.

I had tinnitis for a long time after that, and still do sometimes. Thank goodness for subtitles.

I have no desire to hear teenagers' cell phones. And what kind of teacher lets students have their cell phones on in class? Even if you hear your phone squeaking at you, what are you going to do? Answer it in the middle of class? It's not like you can hold your conversation at 600 mHz or whatever. Oh wait, I forgot that people "text". What next? I shudder to imagine.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH! THOSE SOUNDS HURT!! !

I'm almost 42 and I can hear it.

Yep, I can hear it.

I once said to my mum ' I can hear your phone'
Then she said 'but it's on silent'
I could hear it vibrate.

I will eventually be working in the legal field, and if it is proven that those with Aspergers/Autism are pained or irritated by the mosquito, even though they are over the age, then that would be discrimination on the basis of disability since it will then be used intentionally or unintentionally to drive aspies away, and whoever is having these things out, shoudl be sued by those with ASD for discrimination.

But, to those teenagers who are irritated by it......serves em right for being bullies toward us aspies....consider it payback

18 khz for me...to barely just hear it.I can hear it clear at 17 and it is annoying.

I have never heard it.

I can hear the supposedly same khz on some sites but not on others. I don't trust the files and speakers now?

I certainly can't, not anymore. I was a teen long before cell phones were invented but back then I could hear a high pitched tone and adults couldn't. There was a department store in my area that used an alarm system that had an unbearable high pitch. I couldn't stand going in that store and complained about it every time to my Mom who thought I was inventing an absurd excuse to get out of shopping for new school clothes (which I didn't like doing). But later there was a story in the paper that management had to get a different alarm system because there had been so many complaints from parents that the tone had been sending their children over the edge even though they themselves couldn't hear it. The place had turned into a tantrum-causer for toddlers and I guess after enough 3 year olds clapped their hands over their ears and screamed, moms who couldn't hear it nevertheless complained and it was removed.

Long story short, the ability to hear very high tones diminishes with age for most people. And I'm now on the other side of that divide. But I'm not surpised at all that young people capitalized on this power that they have and most older adults don't.

Well, crap, I'm old. Not only can I not hear the 17 khz teen buzz, I can't even hear the 15 khz tone that most people under 40 can still hear. Oh well at least I enjoyed all the loud rock concerts that probably screwed my hearing!

I'm 16 I can't hear the sound they play outside shops But I do have very good hearing when it comes to very low sounds though.

I'm almost 31 and I can hear every single one of those links loud and clear without turning the volume all the way up.