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0 pointsmckirk4y ago0 comments

In which sense is your hearing 'so good it might count as a disability'?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperacusis

I don't hear "notes" and "chords", I hear frequencies. My range (at near 50) still goes up to where i can hear the bats talking. In a room with people, i cannot not hear their pulse, breathing, and other biological proceedings...

O_H_E4y ago

> i cannot not hear their pulse, breathing, and other biological proceedings

Oh WOW, that is ...... wild and interesting

pvarangot4y ago

I had it as a kid, went away in my teen years and now I only have tinnitus. For me it was only on certain frequencies that were boosted and they are near the principal harmonic of my always-there ringing tinnitus or in the frequency of another noise I sometimes hear that's more like a pure sinewave.

As far as I know it's more of a brain thing and not like a super-ear thing.

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