Re: My experiences

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Hi Debra, You may not feel like you have as severe of reactions of some others here, but your examples sound like you’ve come to the right place! Regarding the high frequencies, my son (who has 4S, not me) can hear dog whistles, but it’s also the low frequencies that bother him because he “feels” those. He, like you, always needed to turn the ads down, not only because they were usually louder, but they also often included a lot of trigger sounds (like the Kit Kat commercial with all the crunching – sorry, I know mentioning that caused a lot of cringing for readers!). He now spends most of his time in his room, and I use “TV Ears” so he won’t hear the TV, especially through the walls into his room which is even worse. We also have additional family members with sensitivities, but those are mostly visual. From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ] On Behalf Of DeborahSent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 2:59 AMTo: Soundsensitivity Subject: My experiences I live in Australia and find it interesting learning about other peoples experiences with sound sensitivity. I feel that I am different to others in some ways. I certainly don’t have the rage or ocd tendencies that others have explained. I don’t even have the stress issues that others mention, or certainly not to any huge extent. However, there is DEFINITELY a physical cause in some way to this as my mother had the same problem I have and about a month ago I rang my only surviving sibling, my brother and asked him if he had a problem and he said he did too. My father liked to have the radio on and listen to the news when we were all around the table eating dinner and my mother would often say its too loud! Turn it down please. He was never really agreeable to this. I never had any problem at the time (10 years old) When I was married (until I was 45), I always was the one who had the remote control for tv and would frantically turn down the sound during advertisements, as they were always so loud and intrusive and overwhelming and stopped me being able to think straight. It never occurred to me that I was exactly like my mother. I realized I was similar but it wasn’t a big thing in my life. It was really when I began a new relationship that I was informed how difficult I was (for wanting to turn ads down! Something I still think I shouldn’t have to fight for!). The other thing was I noticed – and disliked intensely - other sounds for the first time. My partners son, who I love dearly (13 years old) will at times sniff CONSTANTLY Aaaargh. I hate it. (EVERY 15 SECONDS, I think that shows something that I can tell you how often) but that’s the only thing I really have an issue with. Oh yes and he jiggles his leg too, as has been discussed by others. However, I am very fortunate indeed that this appears to be the extent of my hearing issues. Interestingly, I have always had a hearing problem with low tones but can hear very well high pitched ones. I always used to say I was like Supergirl who could hear noises that dogs could hear but humans couldn’t (but only if high pitched) Actually now I come to think of it, I never liked it when people had a radio not tuned in correctly and it whistled. . . . . . Debra White

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I hear dog whistles, very painful. My problem is caused by nerve damage affecting muscles controlling stapes. I have tinnitus as well, thankfully mostly white noise. LizSent from my iPhone

Regarding the high frequencies, my son (who has 4S, not me) can hear dog whistles, but it’s also the low frequencies that bother him because he “feels†those. He, like you, always needed to turn the ads down, not only because they were usually louder, but they also often included a lot of trigger sounds (like the Kit Kat commercial with all the crunching – sorry, I know mentioning that caused a lot of cringing for readers!). He now spends most of his time in his room, and I use “TV Ears†so he won’t hear the TV, especially through the walls into his room which is even worse. We also have additional family members with sensitivities, but those are mostly visual. From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ] On Behalf Of DeborahSent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 2:59 AMTo: Soundsensitivity Subject: My experiences I live in Australia and find it interesting learning about other peoples experiences with sound sensitivity. I feel that I am different to others in some ways. I certainly don’t have the rage or ocd tendencies that others have explained. I don’t even have the stress issues that others mention, or certainly not to any huge extent. However, there is DEFINITELY a physical cause in some way to this as my mother had the same problem I have and about a month ago I rang my only surviving sibling, my brother and asked him if he had a problem and he said he did too. My father liked to have the radio on and listen to the news when we were all around the table eating dinner and my mother would often say its too loud! Turn it down please. He was never really agreeable to this. I never had any problem at the time (10 years old) When I was married (until I was 45), I always was the one who had the remote control for tv and would frantically turn down the sound during advertisements, as they were always so loud and intrusive and overwhelming and stopped me being able to think straight. It never occurred to me that I was exactly like my mother. I realized I was similar but it wasn’t a big thing in my life. It was really when I began a new relationship that I was informed how difficult I was (for wanting to turn ads down! Something I still think I shouldn’t have to fight for!). The other thing was I noticed – and disliked intensely - other sounds for the first time. My partners son, who I love dearly (13 years old) will at times sniff CONSTANTLY Aaaargh. I hate it. (EVERY 15 SECONDS, I think that shows something that I can tell you how often) but that’s the only thing I really have an issue with. Oh yes and he jiggles his leg too, as has been discussed by others. However, I am very fortunate indeed that this appears to be the extent of my hearing issues. Interestingly, I have always had a hearing problem with low tones but can hear very well high pitched ones. I always used to say I was like Supergirl who could hear noises that dogs could hear but humans couldn’t (but only if high pitched) Actually now I come to think of it, I never liked it when people had a radio not tuned in correctly and it whistled. . . . . . Debra White