lights are absolutely not silent, the humming and flickering of the TL lights always gives me headaches if im in that room for too long.
its the same where other people say they dont hear a certain sound anymore after a few minutes but I keep hearing it all the time
yea I have been diagnosed with autism at a young age and I had to learn that me being able to hear every conversation in a room, the ceiling fan and the sound of electrical current was just a fact of my life I had to deal with
Hear, but not understand every conversation in the room.
I'm not diagnosed or anything, but I only have the inability to understand, and not so much the hear everything. So idk which is better
I can't as much follow all of them at once (hell, without focus I can't even follow one of them) but I hear all of them within earshot of my, I'll pick up different parts of different conversations all around the room
you learn to deal with it. I have to actively block out certain things or a room full of people is unbearable to me, I hear every conversation within earshot all at once if I dont actively focus on one, its why im always the weird guy that stares at the person who is currently talking in the conversation im part off, since it helps me focus and block out the rest
is this exclusively an autism thing? i just wind up melting into my seat in those situations and dissociating so hard cos i can't deal lol. i'm not diagnosed with autism tho but bpd and ptsd
Don't think it's exclusively an autism thing but it is most often observed by people with some kinds of autism.
But if you want to be sure, it's never a bad thing to let yourself be tested, it can give clarity on some things.
I'm still convinced that people who can't hear the tzzk of chargers and lights are in denial. I don't care that most capable people who tell me it's not normal, I CAN HEAR IT YOUR JUST NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH
They aren’t silent especially high power with dimmers limiting them. Stage lights especially can make hella noise (usually means something is wrong though)
I'm on team "I actually cared about my ears and didn't purposefully destroy them forever to seem cool for a year or two, and now I'm surrounded by people who speak way too loud because they can't understand sh\*t."
i'm on team "grew up with parents hard of hearing so my voice is naturally loud, much to the detriment of my gf who took care of her ears for all her life"
i have to conciously control my volume or else i default to loud voice
i’m on team “the only one that’s hard of hearing in my family but make me the youngest and also afab so now you get me screaming every other word because i’m paranoid people are unable to hear me”
it doesn’t make it better that my preferred conversation topic is spitting out random facts that people are concerned that i know. there’s a lot less eavesdroppers, i’m just loud as fuck.
A local newspaper columnist claims that's a form of tinnitis. The latter isn't just buzzing.
I have it too.
I wonder if it's becoming more common since so many movies and TV shows rely so heavily on sound tracks for cues. It's just part of our background now - I remember being surprised by a comment about the 'theme' for the latest Dr. Who and not realizing, until then, that the show does have a sound track that reflects who's in the scene (or will soon appear), etc. It was just part of the background, like the laugh track on comedies.
> I remember being surprised by a comment about the 'theme' for the latest Dr. Who and not realizing, until then, that the show does have a sound track that reflects who's in the scene (or will soon appear), etc. It was just part of the background, like the laugh track on comedies.
I've gotta say, I've had the opposite experience to you. I've kind of always noticed and loved how modern media can be this marvellous interplay between visual and audio cues; and it's only improved my experience of things like reading fiction (which is like watching a movie for me, when I can get started!) for example. I absolutely adore when composers work the plot into their music.
I should also say that I'm diagnosed ADHD, and this kind of thing might be my weird head trying to produce more dopamine lol.
Also, explosions, crashes and other sound effects are audible even if you tone them down a little. Would be nice to not have to adjust the volume in every scene, yeah?
Audio processing disorders, lessgo! Got my ears checked years ago, found out I technically have perfect hearing, yet still can't understand someone less than a foot away.
I'm team *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEÉEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* and this is just kinda life I guess
Team "I can learn to play a melody perfectly in seconds but need to ask people to repeat themselves several times before I eventually give up on ever hearing what they said and hope I can pick it up from context clues later on in the conversation"
Sounds like a good antagonist team. They should have rotems that are mostly refrigerators, except for a few different ones that are sound based pokemon. They're theme is calm enough so you can hear the background noises, even without headphones. but energetic enough to make you bop your head around.
Also the leader keeps asking you to repeat what you said, and their goal is to equalize sound , to an exaggerated degree of course cause they are antagonist
One of the weird complications of my Ménière’s disease is that I’m almost totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing overall, but still find loud noises or environments almost painfully bothersome.
Yup. I have a recurring nightmare that I’m having conversations with my patients and they barely speak above a whisper. I have never hear what people are saying and end up screaming at everyone. It’s really frustrating
I have mild tinnitus due to childhood exposure to cannonfire, (less interesting than it sounds) and so silence is a constant ringing at around 17000 Hz
Thanks I normally ignore mine but now I’m listening to it.
No cannon fire in my childhood but I did spend a lot of time flattening my tonka trucks into sheet metal on a railway track anvil. Never really thought about it until now…
I always thought it was weird as a kid when people told me lights were silent
lights are absolutely not silent, the humming and flickering of the TL lights always gives me headaches if im in that room for too long. its the same where other people say they dont hear a certain sound anymore after a few minutes but I keep hearing it all the time
i know autism makes you hear those more btw
yea I have been diagnosed with autism at a young age and I had to learn that me being able to hear every conversation in a room, the ceiling fan and the sound of electrical current was just a fact of my life I had to deal with
same pal same
Hear, but not understand every conversation in the room. I'm not diagnosed or anything, but I only have the inability to understand, and not so much the hear everything. So idk which is better
I can't as much follow all of them at once (hell, without focus I can't even follow one of them) but I hear all of them within earshot of my, I'll pick up different parts of different conversations all around the room
Man that sucks, my mind will block out the sound of a box fan eventually
you learn to deal with it. I have to actively block out certain things or a room full of people is unbearable to me, I hear every conversation within earshot all at once if I dont actively focus on one, its why im always the weird guy that stares at the person who is currently talking in the conversation im part off, since it helps me focus and block out the rest
is this exclusively an autism thing? i just wind up melting into my seat in those situations and dissociating so hard cos i can't deal lol. i'm not diagnosed with autism tho but bpd and ptsd
Don't think it's exclusively an autism thing but it is most often observed by people with some kinds of autism. But if you want to be sure, it's never a bad thing to let yourself be tested, it can give clarity on some things.
It's a big ADHD mood too
Mine won't, which is why I have one going at all times to dampen all other sounds because box fans are mostly pleasant.
I'm still convinced that people who can't hear the tzzk of chargers and lights are in denial. I don't care that most capable people who tell me it's not normal, I CAN HEAR IT YOUR JUST NOT SPECIAL ENOUGH
Same. Later I found out I have ADHD
They aren’t silent especially high power with dimmers limiting them. Stage lights especially can make hella noise (usually means something is wrong though)
im on team 'teenage me has nuked my ears and can no longer process short-range convos properly or watch tv without subtitles'
I'm on team "I actually cared about my ears and didn't purposefully destroy them forever to seem cool for a year or two, and now I'm surrounded by people who speak way too loud because they can't understand sh\*t."
i'm on team "grew up with parents hard of hearing so my voice is naturally loud, much to the detriment of my gf who took care of her ears for all her life" i have to conciously control my volume or else i default to loud voice
i’m on team “the only one that’s hard of hearing in my family but make me the youngest and also afab so now you get me screaming every other word because i’m paranoid people are unable to hear me” it doesn’t make it better that my preferred conversation topic is spitting out random facts that people are concerned that i know. there’s a lot less eavesdroppers, i’m just loud as fuck.
I'm on team "I always got told off for being too softly spoken but nuked my ears in my 20s and now people can actually understand me".
I'm on the way there :')
Team "can hear the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep inside my brain when it's silence"
Tinnitus
Team "Brain FM - earworms, 24/7!" *edit*: right now, I've got Brenda Stubbert's and ABBA's S.O.S. doing a bit of a mash-up in my head.
A local newspaper columnist claims that's a form of tinnitis. The latter isn't just buzzing. I have it too. I wonder if it's becoming more common since so many movies and TV shows rely so heavily on sound tracks for cues. It's just part of our background now - I remember being surprised by a comment about the 'theme' for the latest Dr. Who and not realizing, until then, that the show does have a sound track that reflects who's in the scene (or will soon appear), etc. It was just part of the background, like the laugh track on comedies.
> I remember being surprised by a comment about the 'theme' for the latest Dr. Who and not realizing, until then, that the show does have a sound track that reflects who's in the scene (or will soon appear), etc. It was just part of the background, like the laugh track on comedies. I've gotta say, I've had the opposite experience to you. I've kind of always noticed and loved how modern media can be this marvellous interplay between visual and audio cues; and it's only improved my experience of things like reading fiction (which is like watching a movie for me, when I can get started!) for example. I absolutely adore when composers work the plot into their music. I should also say that I'm diagnosed ADHD, and this kind of thing might be my weird head trying to produce more dopamine lol.
Maybe the dialogue should be louder than the goddamned music?
Also, explosions, crashes and other sound effects are audible even if you tone them down a little. Would be nice to not have to adjust the volume in every scene, yeah?
Could literally anyone please give tv producers a volume normalizer
And a slap for getting it wrong for so long
Happy cake day!
Team it takes 2 full seconds to process a conversation but I can watch a tv show, game and chat all at the same time Or, in short, team ADHD
It's nice
You can’t. You’re just doing all of those things suboptimally
I'm not saying you're doing then well
Jokes on you I do everything suboptimally
Audio processing disorders, lessgo! Got my ears checked years ago, found out I technically have perfect hearing, yet still can't understand someone less than a foot away.
I'm team *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEÉEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* and this is just kinda life I guess
The former is the reason for the latter
If you have a low pitched voice I won't be able to understand you, I'm sorry but I literally only hear noise when you talk.
I knew about the electrical thing, but can people really not hear the soda bubbles? They're so loud!
It's autism (or a related neurodivergent condition)
Damn this sub calls me out like every damn day.
Team "I can learn to play a melody perfectly in seconds but need to ask people to repeat themselves several times before I eventually give up on ever hearing what they said and hope I can pick it up from context clues later on in the conversation"
Sounds like a good antagonist team. They should have rotems that are mostly refrigerators, except for a few different ones that are sound based pokemon. They're theme is calm enough so you can hear the background noises, even without headphones. but energetic enough to make you bop your head around. Also the leader keeps asking you to repeat what you said, and their goal is to equalize sound , to an exaggerated degree of course cause they are antagonist
I can hear soda bubbles sometimes it always annoys me, but I use subtitles cause I usually do something else while watching tv and it makes it easier
One of the weird complications of my Ménière’s disease is that I’m almost totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing overall, but still find loud noises or environments almost painfully bothersome.
I didn't know until recently this wasn't just a me issue.
Yup. I have a recurring nightmare that I’m having conversations with my patients and they barely speak above a whisper. I have never hear what people are saying and end up screaming at everyone. It’s really frustrating
The worse is when you ask someone to speak up and they barely change their volume.
team ADHD!
I have mild tinnitus due to childhood exposure to cannonfire, (less interesting than it sounds) and so silence is a constant ringing at around 17000 Hz
Thanks I normally ignore mine but now I’m listening to it. No cannon fire in my childhood but I did spend a lot of time flattening my tonka trucks into sheet metal on a railway track anvil. Never really thought about it until now…
My ADHD in a nutshell, it s u c k s
This is why I need to have a song to focus. Even just mentally replaying a song. Some other noise to focus on.
That's not just me?
y'all can't hear the bubbles o-o i thought everyone could
You have good auditory reception and bad auditory processing, I think. Or at least speech processing.