Do you have sensitive hearing?

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My AS is High Functioning

One talent i have is telling if a computer Hard Drive is going bad or is bad by the sound

I can't see or hear very well. I had lots of ear infections as a child and my eardrums kept bursting, leaving them quite damaged. I'm only sensitive to touch and temperature. I really hate loud noises, more because they make me nervous, but I can't hear very quiet ones. I have the hearing of a 50 year old, apparently, in terms of hearing high frequencies. I've also lost about 40% of my hearing in one ear.

I have started using noise cancelling headphones while at work. I am surprised how calming having all of the extranious noises around me cut out. It makes a huge difference on my ability to focus, and not be so wound up by overstimmulation.

I have sensitive hearing. It comes in handy when I want to find out what my parents are talking about without them finding out, and when they turn off the ac, I can hear when they're asleep, or downstairs, so I can turn it on again. I guess another advantage is when I do anything like this, I am extremely quiet, like going slowly and carefully, as I can always hear when someone is coming, it's always seemed to me other people can hear me, too, but they don't. I can also tell who's coming, too. Like I can tell my dad's footsteps from my mom's, the birds, and the dog's. The only one who could get past me is me without my noticing is my cat, but she wears kitty bells. So I can hear her, too.

Something funny, though, is I'm never annoyed by her meowing. She's not very vocal, unless she wants something. She meows kind of loud, and it annoys other people, especially my mom very much. I like her meowing, though. I've read that the tone and pitch cats use when they want something, is similar to a baby crying, but while I hate babies crying, I like her meow.

Yes, it's why I don't like going to fireworks displays or concerts.

Ditto. My weirdest thing is that my wife likes to sleep with a fan in the bedroom for noise purposes. If the fan is blowing towards our ceiling fan, I can hear a faint jingle as the cord moves, and I can NOT sleep until I move the regular fan to another direction.

The sound of a gentle breeze or soft rain wakes me during the night, but that is a pleasant break in my sleep. I can detect the change in wind direction by the volume of the leaves reaching my ears. If a vehicle is idling longer than normal within a 3-4km radius of the house at night I get up and look out the windows. Leaves falling on the patio in the dead of night wake me and I have to investgate to make sure it isn't someone sneaking about. Bugs and baby birds, electrical current before a storm, high and low pressure systems in an environment completely void of any human sound, cicadas and borers scratching their way out of the ground, the swish of a bird wing on the air, termites, neighbours up to 3 properties away vacuuming their house and chopping vegetables.

Almost every human and mechanical sound distracts me night and day often becoming intolerable, especially when mixed with other sensory feeds like mechanical and man made light interference (light off glass, metal, road glare, electrical light, etc), smell (animal musk, pollution, any kind of animal waste, bleach, perfume, meat, human skin, non-organic smoke, gas, chemicals, etc), touch (human and non-organic/un-natural fibres, sunscreen), taste (GMOs, fats, acids, chemical and mineral flavourings, polluted air, etc) and the vibration of the energy that forms everything around us.

My hearing is quite sensitive. I used to be called "Big Ears" and not for the size of my lobes.

It's not insanely sensitive, and I do believe it's suffered damage over time (and via loudness of certain events), but it's still far more sensitive than anyone else I know. An opera singer hitting a VERY high note will cause me PAIN.

Yep, My dad and I have this too. It is complete torture for us. I love television, but my dad can't stand it. We both hate whispering, High pitched noises, dog barking, dog whining, AND WORST OF ALL: METAL SCRAPING. Ugh! It sends chills up my back. I remember in middle school, In science class one day my teacher showed us this fancy crystal stemmed glass with vinegar in it. He dipped his finger in the vinegar, then circled the rim of the glass with the finger. It made this terrible high pitched squealing, screeching noise. I felt like my ears were being torn off and stabbed. It hurt like crazy! The teacher kept doing it, even though I asked him nicely to please stop as it hurt my ears and I was trying desperatley to cover them. He finally let me go in the hall. The water fountain was running and I could hear it in the hall even! My friends felt so bad for me, even though they didn't know the feeling. Other classmates were rude after that though, saying I have "Mental issues" and "Hear everything." They always had wondered why I could hear them gossiping about me across the room. Anyways, My dad hates the sound of sizzling bacon, water running (he says it sounds like popping balloons), popping balloons (ME TOO!), and certain beats of music (he loves most though, as he was a deejay, but hates a few.) Does anyone know what we all have?! We are the only two in our family with this problem!! Thanks

During the day if I am home I often walk around the house with ear plugs. The sound of other peoples voices, hearing car sounds, people outside, music, birds, (I live in a large city) etc. is maddening and stressful.

Hell, even taking a SHOWER I wear ear plugs, because the noise of the crashing water sounds like a waterfall flowing right into my ear sliding into my brain like hot lava. It's painful.

People accuse me of eavesdropping on their phone conversations in the next room, but dammit I can hear EVERYTHING!

People get annoyed when I tell them to lower the tv/radio/etc. But it hurts.

My hearing is hyper acute. It's like having a super power, but not a fun one.

I'm interested to know if anybody's hearing is at it's most sensitive after you wake up?

Mine is I need to sit in silence for a good hour

i've long been hypersensitive to extraneous noise in audio recordings. i've spent about half of my life trying to eliminate or suppress those noises in my music collection.

Yes, though its faded a bit with advancing age. I still hear very high pitched things that others don't, though..

Sincerely,
Matthew

Yes-absolutely. I wear my ear plugs for at least an hour after I wake up. TV's, cars, people talking to me, the telephone ringing-is just too much.
As the day progresses, it gets a little better, (not as sensitive) but not by much.

Please stop talking about me.

O wait, I'm just paranoid.

I have very sensitive hearing. I can hear a lot that others cannot, like the sounds of people breathing when I enter a room, high pitched or quiet noises created by electronics, etc. Many things are way too loud; my mom speaks too loud pretty much 100% of the time, and she talks fast; while I have no problem with the fast talking, often hearing her voice too much makes me want to hide. And she loves to talk a lot.

My last ex was totally blind, and she had really sensitive hearing; we noticed her hearing was better than mine, but not by a whole ton; not like it was compared to most people. The main difference, though, was more in interpretation of information - we both found ourselves to like pretty much the same volume levels, and find pretty much the same ones annoying.

Another thing is when I hear a note being played, I know which note it is, and I know which chords I'm hearing when I hear most chords. I also do this with things that aren't instruments, like cars, refridgerators, people's talking voices, etc. Anything that makes noise pretty much.