Does being austistic/aspie affect your hearing range?

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You can test the range of your hearing using these two links, if you want! These test the frequencies you can hear, which is pitch (not loudness). You lose about 1 Hz a day in your hearing range after you turn 20!

The first link: the very highest frequency they play doesn't play right apparently (it is the frequency that most people under 20 years old can still hear), but everything else works. You need to listen with headphones in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcbppCX6Rk

Here is another link but I don't think it tells you the ages that correspond to each frequency like the first link does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWpSePfbTxc

Let me know how you do and if you think autism affects the range you can hear! I can hear at least up to 18,000 Hz, which is decent I imagine, since I am 25 and that's what people younger than 24 can hear.

My hearing is both lacking somewhat, and selective.

Ah, my hearing is very good (I can hear things other people can't) but I have auditory processing problems so language often sounds like jibberish to me. I also have trouble following a conversation- even when I think I am listening and understanding, I realize after a few seconds that I have no idea what is going on and what has been said! But of course hearing something and processing it are different, although related, processes in your body.

I had my hearing tested a couple of times within the past three years and there is very little that I don't hear. Just a few tones at the top of the range did not register. But I wonder if they would have if I had been in a booth that was actually soundproof than only supposed to be soundproof. I was distracted by other sounds outside the booth.

I'll have to try the test. Being older, I'm sure I've lost the upper range. I also have language processing problems, I have to ask salespeople to speak slowly and distinctly, which makes them think I'm an old git.

My hearing isn't very good for someone on the spectrum. I don't know if my history of hearing loss had anything to do with it and ear infections since that can affect your hearing and cause permanent damage. I do have issues with hearing people speak over noise and they must shout. It's hard to hear someone talk in a noisy room so I must get close to their face to hear them. It's hard to hear on the phone in a noisy room so I cover my other ear to block out the noise so I could hear the person on the other end. If I am not paying attention and someone says something to me, I need them to repeat it so I could process it. If they say my name first, that gets my attention and I can process what they say after they get my attention. I could also never sit in class and listen to lectures. I zone out and don't even know it and it gets me tired when I try and listen. I never grew out of this problem but as a child I would get restless or goof off or look around the room and at other kids. I did have a student teacher in 6th grade who would go bla bla bla in class especially during math and kids would be so bored, they would be goofing off in their seats and throwing things at each other and I would just take out a book and read. That time everyone had that issue I have always had lol except it was only with that teacher only while for me it was with every teacher. That time I felt normal because I saw how bored other kids were and how they also had troubles with that teacher too.

My school tried to say I had attention problems but one doctor said it was my brain running too fast and it was making it hard for me to process the information in class. That could have been the root of my listening problems all along during lectures. The older you get, the more lectures they give and how much longer they last so I started to fall asleep in class because my brain couldn't handle it.

Ah, that sounds similar to my auditory processing problems. I can hear sounds well but have trouble processing them- and it is made worse by high emotions and background noise. People have to repeat things a lot when there is background noise (and they still have to repeat things when there isn't background noise or high emotion too because sometimes it still sounds like jibberish anyway). It is harder for me to understand people on the phone or recorded too. But you know my range of hearing and my ability to hear loud or quiet sounds are all normal, it's just processing the language that is hard. I have the same problem in lectures, too. I stopped going to lectures in undergrad and in med school unless attendance is required (fortunately my attendance is very rarely required at any lectures in med school!). I just use the class powerpoints and look up information I don't understand well enough from the powerpoints online or in books. I like to teach myself.

http://youtu.be/qNf9nzvnd1k - this one is better.

I used to hear anything from 30Hz to 19kHz when I was listening something like this last time a few years ago but right now the sound stops at 15kHz (with some slight rings near 17kHz). Whats interesting I can hear 14-15kHz better than 12-13kHz.

Come to think about it thats true the high sound of my grandma TV got less irritating recently. No longer than a year ago I couldn't stand it and I was always covering my ears when entering the room and even this was not helping much. But a few weeks ago when I went to my grandma again I realized the sound is still hearable but not so strong, I could get rid of it by moving my head another direction. So the thing with hearing frequency decreasing with age is true. God bless! Soon I will be able visit grandma without worrying about the stupid sound and watch CRT TVs (there is still plenty of them in Poland) without this distraction. Yay!

My hearing comes and it goes. I can sometimes be upstairs and hear people downstairs whispering and make out all of the words, but other times I can be upstairs with a door closed with people screaming at me and not even realize they are trying to say something to me. (Of course the latter is usually followed by an extremely angry someone barging into the room and making it seem like I'm ignoring them on purpose)

I don't know that it necessarily makes your hearing any better or worse in the normal range, but I do hear sounds in the upper ranges that are apparently beyond the "normal" capacity for humans. There have been several times when I have mentioned a particular hi-pitched sound to others and they had no idea what I was talking about, even after I walked them over to the source of the sound to point it out to them. The diagnostic criteria includes the phrase "may see lights or hear sounds that others do not," so apparently it's a fairly common autistic trait.

am thirty and have been tested to have equal hearing that goes higher than what the testing software coud manage,am able to hear and feel the anti cat/squirrel etc devices that some people have in their gardens and am able to hear those 'mosquito devices' AKA the common UK anti chav device that is supposed to be only able to target the freequencies teenagers hear but it is regulary a burden for autistic people of any age.

however....for the past few months have been suffering from a severe wax problem, am deaf;nearly profoundly deaf and will be getting them syringed in a few weeks,its great not being able to hear everything but not so great when people keep chatting thinking am able to hear them and when they get pssed off because am not able to hear them after several repeats.

That was pretty cool,i lost it around 1800hz,i felt like it was getting louder and louder i had to turn it down,at 15-16 got a little softer but then picked up again.at times i felt like it was chirping a little.

cool, 12,000 Hz hurt like crazy, otherwise all frequencies are heard. Shame with the compression, highest ones where just clicks. Fortunately there are downloadable files probably somewhere on the Internet. Try this one http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can ... ring-test/ between 18 and 19 kHz is my limit there, normal for a 26 year old who likes quiet places

I don't have headphones right now, but when I did, I was able to hear tones into the early-mid 20s range. On my cheap speakers, nothing above 12kHz even plays. Either that Or I lost several thousand Hz range in the past two years.

I've lost some range over the years, but I've always had sensitive hearing (as in I could pick up specific sounds from long distances).

Another site with sound files is:

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/

Ringtones for kids that adults are typically unable to hear.

And this one too:

http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/

I played the first video for a couple of seconds before I turned it off.

8,000 Hz is extremely painful!