Auditory Hypersensitivity + Deafness

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What happens?

I'll give an example for context, a person with hypersensitive hearing has untreated ear infections when young and as a result has their hearing permanently damaged/reduced.

That is all.

I am not certain if my case applies

I have had hyperacute hearing all my life but for some reason in the range above 1000 Hz I have a 20db loss and above 2000 Hz 35 Db (what this does is cut down normal conversation to the level of a whisper, and if someone speaks and is facing away from me, I might as well be deaf).

However even with all this loss, I am still hyperacute in bass range, so when I hear anyone in a vehicle playing their stereo loud I want to put my fist though their face. Worse yet I used to live next door to a neighbor who knew I had this problem and who played a stereo too loud and after asking politely for him to turn it down he would turn it up leading to calls to police. This led him to purchasing an air horn. (and they day people with aspergers have no empathy)

The reason for my hearing loss I am uncertain of, possibly childhood diseases maybe not (I am 51) and did not get immunized except to smallpox and polio so I had many of the diseases that people do not get today, measles, mumps so forth

I don't have any citations for this, but I took a couple of audiology courses in college, and I remember this topic coming up, because if I recall correctly, auditory hypersensitivity is not uncommon for people with hearing loss. The result is that their "comfort window" for sounds is very small, because a sound needs to be louder in order for them to hear it, but not so loud that it is uncomfortable. The bottom of the comfort level is higher for them and the top is lower => narrow window of auditory comfort.

This is interesting... I've always suspected I might have some type of 'nerve deafness', in that I have trouble understanding words (especially on TV), even though it's technically loud enough. It didn't occur to me that might be due to autism? I also have severe sensory issues with noises in general.

My presumption would be that the hypersensitivity would in effect disappear because the reduced hearing capacity would work like a permanent set of ear plugs. There have been occasions when I've wondered about the sensibility of exposing my ears to a lot of high-decibel noise in an attempt to deaden some of the auditory receptors and lower the perpetually agonizing noise sensitivity I live with. Obviously not a good idea, but there have been days when I've been desperate enough to consider trying it.