Can you hear weird things that normal people can't?

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The weirdest thing has been happening to me and well i have this phone charger and i plug it into the wall and it's fine and i put a charging cable in and it's fine but then i put a different cable in and it only happens with this one cable and i hear a high pitched noise, even from a couple of meters away, i asked my mom if she could hear it even being very close to the charging port, i don't think i have experienced this before but it sure does feel weird

I heard a funny noise this morning that kind of freaked me out because I didn't know where it was coming from. I thought it might have been background noise on television. It turned out it was the alarm on my dad's cell phone. Also, when people shout out on television during tennis matches, it makes me jump.

One of the diagnostic criteria for Asperger Syndrome in the DSM-4 was "May see lights and hear sounds that others do not."

When I first read that, I was very puzzled, because it seemed (to me) to refer to some sort of hallucinogenic phenomena. Only days later did it strike me that I knew exactly what it meant and it had nothing to do with hallucinations.

I suddenly recalled a moment years ago, in which I was in a room with four or five friends and acquaintances, when, as an analogy for something (I forget what) I used the phenomena others have mentioned in this thread, of the old-fashioned CRT television tubes and how as a kid, I could tell the TV was on even from my bedroom at the far end of the hall with the door closed, because of the high-pitched whining sound it made - audible even when the volume was turned all the way down. The rest of the room looked at me as if I'd suddenly started speaking Chinese - except for one friend who was an electronics buff, who explained that that sound was the exciter at the back of the picture tube and the sound was (supposedly) above the range of human hearing.

Then I remembered a time at the mall, with an ex, when we walked into a shop where a fluorescent light fixture at the back of the room was going bad. The longer we browsed, the more annoying it got, sparking, flickering and buzzing like a Tesla coil in a Frankenstein movie. Finally, I said to my wife "I wonder if they're ever going to do anything about that damn light." To which she replied: "What light?"

I pointed to the panel in question, clearly flickering and flashing like a lightning storm, and she claimed not to see what I was talking about. Finally, I actually walked her over to stand beneath the fixture and said "Do you not hear that?" She said "I don't hear anything - but it is flickering a little." Several people browsing near us who could obviously hear our conversation, also strolled tranquilly by, as though they saw nor heard anything out of the ordinary.

Then there was the time when I was walking with a different ex and my then-family, across a WalMart parking lot, two weeks before Christmas, on a muggy and overcast evening, just after dark. As you might imagine, the parking lot was crowded with shoppers coming and going, and we were on our way into the store from our minivan. My wife, carrying my daughter and trailed by her two sons, about 6 and 8, were a good 15 feet ahead of me, when out of the low-slung cloud cover, off to the left, I heard the sound of a small motor, like a lawn mower engine, sputtering and coughing like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Sensing this was perhaps not a sound one might normally expect to hear coming from the sky, I looked up to see bright lights breaking through the cloud cover. Instinctively, I called out to my family (or anyone else who might offer an explanation) "What the hell is that!?" Not a soul responded or even looked up from their gift-questing.

By now, the thing is almost directly overhead, still hacking and stalling like a Yugo, and to my astonishment, I got a good look at the thing. I know this will sound like I'm playing it for comedy, but hand-to-God it looked exactly like an X-Wing fighter from Star Wars, flying backward. Again I exclaimed, even more loudly than before "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?" And once again, I might as well have been in a Twilight Zone episode, as no one else batted an eye, nor looked in my direction, much less toward the metal dragonfly clanking and knocking not 100 feet above our heads.

As the thing headed off toward the southwest, again I yelled, ever more insistently, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?"

Finally, my wife turned around to see what I was on about, as did her boys - but instead of looking toward the noise and blinding lights in the sky, they looked at ME. Only the youngest boy saw my finger extended toward the clouds and looked up. "WOW!!" He cried, as the thing vanished back into the low clouds and was gone. If not for him, I would have been left to doubt even the evidence of my own eyes.

To this day, I am astounded that not another living soul in that crowded parking lot ever heard or saw the mysterious flying machine, but myself and a 6 year old child. Not only is it absolute witness in my mind to the fact that the autistic sensory apparatus is tuned well askew of the normal human range (I could recount many other examples), it also leads me to wonder - how many other fantastic things go on in this mundane world of ours, that so-called "normal humans" are utterly and totally oblivious to? For all NTs know, fairies, demons and UFOs may be popping in and out of interdimensional wormholes all the time, and smug humans would remain blissfully ignorant, confident that such things are "impossible."

For me I think it's not so much that I hear things other people can't, so much as I'm hearing the same things they hear, but to me that sound is distracting, terrible and driving me crazy, while to them it's none of those things. Like, loud and constant traffic noise on a busy street, where the other person has no problem continuing a conversation, but I'm struggling to even gather my thoughts together in all that noise.

i'll hear when the speakers are on but nothing is playing.
also tvs/electromagnetic noises.
i can hear with relative accuracy the volts and amps a welder is set to..
but i haven't known this to be weird really, a lot of people have mentioned tuning into such subtle noises.

i heard the sandblaster vacuum motor was imbalanced (could not hear whether it was the brushes or the bearings) a couple months before people started to notice it wasn't working well and the shop tech asked me to take a look at it (it was the bearings).
machine whisperer doesn't seem like such a bad reputation to me

what's possibly more weird is hearing objects.
there are some blind people who use echolocation to a startling degree of precision so i know it's not outside of the range of human possibility to hear an object.

When I wake up every morning and goes pee. I hear the lightbulb. And it distracts me and makes it for me too pee. Because any noise makes it hard for me too pee. And I asked my Grandma if it gets on her nerves too the sound of the lightbulb. And she said she hasn't heard it.

very often, precious lil "people" have the nerve to grunt "huh" and "what" at me. as though they did not or could not hear what i said.

very rarely do i perform vice versa.

although maybe they just talk louder than me.

likewise, i am pretty sensitive to noise. the slightest noise wakes me up. not once have i slept through an alarm.

hand dryers in bathrooms totally annoy me.

different noises, like barking dogs, startled me easily.

and i get edgy and on alert too

I'm also sensitive to the noises made by televisions, especially that sound they make just as they're switched on, it's not pleasant. I seem to take notice of small sounds that are attached to louder noises more than others, as well. Electronic sounds in general seem to be the worst culprits for attracting my notice.

I've never thought about it. I asked around, and sure enough, I seem to be the only one who can hear various lights and electronics.