Hear2much
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I have a rare hearing condition that forces me to think of hearing differently from anyone I have ever known. I have significant hearing loss for very small bands of frequencies. What this means is that certain specific frequencies are not picked up by both of my ears. Like a dog whistle. Fortunately the frequencies do not match for both of my ears so as long as both of my ears are exposed to hear something, I will hear it almost perfectly. The hearing loss I hardly notice. My hearing tests quite well for speech etc. and I am a musician with great hearing ability for deciphering sounds. I can listen to a symphony and then write out pretty much all the music for each instrument even though it is happaning all at once, not an easy thing to do for most hearing musicians and I am thankful for these abilities.
Here is my problem though; this awkward condition causes an adjustment mechanism in my ears to try and compensate for the hearing loss and ends up interpereting sound INCORRECTLY for me which comes in the form of distortion and extra sounds that aren't there, especially with high volume levels. I can hear very quiet sounds very well, but put me in a restaurant with people talking and it is hard to have a conversation sometimes. In addition my ears generate sound (they put a very small very sensitive microphone in my ear) like a decompressing squeak. I have gone through a number of treatments to remedy this situation. My left ear is the only one that bothers me now and I am going to have a hearing aid made for it that will help.
I always hear ringing (tinitus). It drives me crazy and sometimes it is my ears making those sounds, sometimes I just hear it, but it's really there.
I hear extra sounds that resemble cellophaine being scrunched or a record needle being pulled off the record. Ask a hearing person or look at them (if you are deaf) to get an idea of how these sounds feel and a hearing person will tell you it is a horrible sound that makes you want to cover your ears. True. But I can't "cover my ears" because my ears are what makes these ridiculous noises. It has made my life hard to live as a hearing person. Sometimes I almost wish I were deaf.
I have not heard silence since the age of 20, (ten years ago) and I miss it, very, very much. I cannot listen to loud things like pianos without extra noises. So I cannot even enjoy my own playing as much as hearing people listening to me play the piano who get to hear every crisp note cleanly. I wear an earplug when I play piano but it isn't enough. Because of these things I wonder if I should call myself hearing impaired, it is.
I wish I had an "on/ off" switch for my ears. I would use it every day, to shower (showers and faucets cuase me a great deal of torment), to sleep
, when my girlfriend was telling me about her day 
j/k baby
What do you all think about this?
Here is my problem though; this awkward condition causes an adjustment mechanism in my ears to try and compensate for the hearing loss and ends up interpereting sound INCORRECTLY for me which comes in the form of distortion and extra sounds that aren't there, especially with high volume levels. I can hear very quiet sounds very well, but put me in a restaurant with people talking and it is hard to have a conversation sometimes. In addition my ears generate sound (they put a very small very sensitive microphone in my ear) like a decompressing squeak. I have gone through a number of treatments to remedy this situation. My left ear is the only one that bothers me now and I am going to have a hearing aid made for it that will help.
I always hear ringing (tinitus). It drives me crazy and sometimes it is my ears making those sounds, sometimes I just hear it, but it's really there.
I hear extra sounds that resemble cellophaine being scrunched or a record needle being pulled off the record. Ask a hearing person or look at them (if you are deaf) to get an idea of how these sounds feel and a hearing person will tell you it is a horrible sound that makes you want to cover your ears. True. But I can't "cover my ears" because my ears are what makes these ridiculous noises. It has made my life hard to live as a hearing person. Sometimes I almost wish I were deaf.
I have not heard silence since the age of 20, (ten years ago) and I miss it, very, very much. I cannot listen to loud things like pianos without extra noises. So I cannot even enjoy my own playing as much as hearing people listening to me play the piano who get to hear every crisp note cleanly. I wear an earplug when I play piano but it isn't enough. Because of these things I wonder if I should call myself hearing impaired, it is.
I wish I had an "on/ off" switch for my ears. I would use it every day, to shower (showers and faucets cuase me a great deal of torment), to sleep
, when my girlfriend was telling me about her day j/k babyWhat do you all think about this?
