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RichardBB
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 Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: Do you have good ears? |
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| My ears work above average. Is this an AS thing? |
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duke666
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. Especially high frequency.
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TheDuck
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: Do you have good ears? |
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I have good ears and this is from the wikipedia article on Asperger's
| Quote: | | Individuals with AS often have excellent auditory and visual perception |
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loko
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Age: 31
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| Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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my hearing always tests as "excellent" despite working for the past several years in a very loud industrial setting without using hearing protection (bad idea, i know).
on the other hand i always mishear what people are saying. my dad does it too but he has a reason for it, he's deaf in one ear (vietnam)
i cant think of any easy to describe examples, however one time i was moving some engines and my boss called me on the radio, wanting to let some engines leave off of track 5 so they could go hook up to their train and leave. i told him i'd wait in the clear for them to leave and i'm sitting in the cab with my partner and we're waiting and waiting and he said "i see 5's in a real hurry to get out of here" i thought he said faas (one of our co-workers) was in a hurry to leave so i asked, "where's faas going?" and he was like WHAT?
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Night_Owl_Amber
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I have good hearing, it's probably an AS thing but then I'm not sure if it's because I have bad eyesight that my hearings that bit better or not
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DarrylZero
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A few years ago I got so frustrated with my inability to understand what people were saying that I decided to get my hearing checked by an audiologist. She physically checked my ears and put me through some hearing tests. She said that not only was my hearing well within the normal range, but that my high frequency hearing was above 0. She was particularly surprised because I had told her about my exposure to high volume noise in the past (shooting firearms, playing/listening to loud music, etc.) and that normally people lose their high frequency hearing first.
I'm not sure if this is related, but I've always had difficulty singing in tune or tuning my guitar by ear. I talked with one of my music professors at school and, after having me sing scales and do some other exercises, he suggested that my ears were too sensitive and I was hearing the entire overtone series without being able to lock onto the fundamental tone.
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DaWalker
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Yes, and Mr. Spock would agree  |
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Shebakoby
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| oh yeah I was called "Big Ears" and not because of big outer ears. High frequencies I can hear above all other people's. |
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ColdBlooded
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Age: 22
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Location: New Bern, North Carolina
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| In some ways they're good. I can hear sounds well, and sometimes notice sounds that other people don't. But as far as filtering out something specific from a jumble of noises, they fail horribly.. I can't hear people over a surrounding crowd well at all.. At work i pick up enough to get by, since it's usually not too crowded and people are generally spread out enough... so that it doesn't usually create a big people-talking-all-around-you noise cloud. But, even when there isn't a lot of surrounding noise, if someone has a really deep voice, is speaking softly or in a whisper, a certain accent, or whatever, their words seem to all flow together and i can only pick out a few. I can hear very well that there is sound coming out of their mouth, but it turns into a meaningless flow of speech-noise i can't understand. There are a few people i work with, even a couple managers, who i just kind of nod along and say "uhhh huhhh..." to, and try to avoid talking to if i can, because i usually can't understand them well when they speak to me. If i'm around someone more i can get more used to understanding how they speak, though. I can usually understand my family well, even with my grandparents who have southern accents, because i hear them a lot. I think everyone experiences this to some degree with people who have heavy foreign accents or if noise gets to a certain level, but i seem to have more trouble with it than others i know and it kinda causes a bunch of extra problems and confusion for me. |
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Arcadian
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| I carry ear-plugs everywhere, at all times, because it's uncomfortable to deal with anything above normal volume |
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outlier
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| I am hypersensitive to sound and was found to have unusual auditory processing abilities. It is often associated with autism. |
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Lachlan
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| The high-pitched whine from the television bothers me. It's all right when other things are going on in the room, like people talking, because that often drowns out the TV sound. But my mother and my grandmother have a tendency to leave the room and mute the television instead of turning it off. Unfortunately, I'm usually too absentminded to realize the TV is still on, so I sit there knowing something's bothering my ears and giving me a headache, but not knowing what. |
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Danielismyname
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I had a test done recently, and it came back as perfect.
This surprised me, as I touched off two rounds from a .45 auto 1911A1 indoors without hearing protection, which in turn led to my ears having a permanent ring (tinnitus); said ringing is usually indicative of hearing damage.
I rely on them often, as I have poor eyesight. |
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paulsinnerchild
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| Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Excellent hearing is my strong point to the point of been a little oversensitive. I did that autism thing as a child of covering my ears with my hands a lot. |
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