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ITypically
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| tenalpgnorw wrote: | I am in the same boat with some of the other posters. I do have bad hearing in one ear, due to a whole lot of childhood ear infections. However, there are also some verbal processing things.
Like my wife will come and say to me very clearly, "A fulpa Mike is the road tiki?
I will answer, "Who is Mike and what is a road tiki?"
She'll say, "Now does that make sense? I asked if you have found my gold toe ring!"
I'll say, "That's not what I heard."
This is the important point. I will not be trying to be witty or sarcastic. I literally hear what I hear.
It doesn't naturally occur to me to try and make rational sense out of verbal communication.
Along the same lines, I can almost NEVER hear words when I listen to music, not only with like hard rock, but even slow simple ballads. I prefer instrumental music because most vocals just bother me. |
That is almost exactly what happens to me. It's at this point where I'll just reply with, "Ok so I heard...what did you say?" I end up asking this a few times a day, because while someone will ask me, "Can you turn down the tv?" I hear something as ridiculous as, "Cancun the name Vivi." And that's an example that just happens to rhyme. I can't even count all the others that have made even less sense. I still haven't figured out if I'm just not paying attention as well as I should or what's going on.  I have a friend (whom I don't really like) who is convinced that I do this for the sole purpose of making her angry. I think it annoys/amuses me more then anyone else. Even without all that my hearing isn't the best. On one occassion I passed the hearing tests by sheer luck.
With music the lyrics actually become apart of the instrumental in my ears, so I barely register them. If I'm actually attempting to figure out what they're saying I'm in for a headache because it sounds like complete gibberish to me. This actually became an interesting conversation with a friend of mine because they could not understand how I could listen to foreign music when I didn't understand them. I can't understand the lyrics anyway, so it doesn't make much of a difference. |
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my hearing's fine, but my listening leaves something to be desired. i'm a lot better now, but i remember my mom taking me to a specialist when i was a kid who said exactly that - 'he hears fine, he's just not listening.'. even thru high school i had problems with kind of hearing what was being said to me on some level of my consciousness, but not being able to react to it because i wasn't working on that level of consciousness at that time. i used to ask people to repeat themselves a lot more than i do now. i wonder if i've lost something by having increased my consciousness of what's going on around me since then.
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DJRnold
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Joined: Jan 25, 2008
Age: 18
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Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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| I've had worse-than-usual hearing recently but I know it's because I have a lot earwax in my ear that's too deep to remove with a Q-Tip. I know because several months ago I saw a doctor about something non-ear-related and when he looked in my ears he said that they had a lot of earwax. |
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Ah_Q
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| Have your doctor give you a referal to an ENT specialist. They will remove all the wax and you will be able to hear much better. And you shouldn't stick cotton swabs in your ears. All that does is shove wax further up your ear canal and introduces infections, which also makes it worse. They're not really intended for that purpose anyway. |
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sartresue
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Location: The Castle of Shock and Awe-tism
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: Re: Hearing |
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| ChatBrat wrote: | I have difficulty hearing what people say to me and I also have trouble with hearing the TV. I have to watch people's lips while they speak and I usually have closed captioning on the TV. I also have trouble with background noise and movements distracting me from hearing what is being said. I am very ADHD.
I have Meniere's Disease and have had Tinnitus in both ears (ringing) 24/7 since about 2002 or 2003. I've had it off and on my whole life. I've had my hearing tested twice as an adult and the first time, the lady told me I was borderline for needing hearing aids and the second time I was tested, the man told me my hearing was fine. I do believe that I have Central Auditory Processing Disorder.
I drive everyone around me crazy because I have trouble hearing them. My 23 year old son is especially bothered by it but he mumbles and slurs and talks too softly and talks too fast. He fusses at me everyday "Get a hearing aid!" |
Ear-ring aid topic
Yep. Tinnitus, CAPD. I ear you, ChatBrat!
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markaudette
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I had my right eardrum busted back in July of 1983.
My brother and I were walking with some friends from the neighboorhood. One of them thought it'd be hilarious if he lit a firecracker to scare me. He lit it up and threw it at my head and just his goddamn luck it went off literally ON my right ear.
I literally couldn't hear a thing out of that ear except for a low buzz/humm. It began leaking a clear fluid from the ear canal. SO I went to the ear doctor and he did a couple of examinations and determined I had a low frequency hearing loss. And since then it has only gotten worse and now I have about a 75% hearing loss from my right ear.
What's more, back in 1991 a friend of mine took one of those miniature toy cap guns, placed it right against my left and fired the damn thing. That hurt like all hell but thankfully I have better hearing out of that ear. I'd say I have about 90% hearing out of my left ear. I had the last laugh in that though since I was at his house and his mother saw him do it and gave him mortal hell for pulling such a stunt. |
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telrad
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| Nope--I can hear a mouse fart in a tornado. |
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DevonB
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My hearing is odd. Yup, odd.
I can hear things ticking and whirring and whining, but I often have trouble hearing people talk. Any background noise and I have trouble deciphering what it is that they are saying.
Also, I have the same problem as many...I'll hear someone say something, be about to ask them to repeat it, and my brain figures it out. It's like it took a moment or two to parse what was being said.
At times...nothing. I'll hear nonsensical items like "The penguins are dancing". When I ask for a repeat it was nothing like that.
So, I'm going to guess it's a processing disorder with some mid-range issues (hearing deficits). However, I am going for another hearing test as my tinnitus is driving me mad, lately. |
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