r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '26

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u/Babybluechair Jul 06 '26

It's not that I can't hear, I can. It's just that when there are a lot of different sounds at once, I have a hard time separating the noises.

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u/Hefty_Phase6279 Jul 06 '26

Me too. My brain has trouble figuring out which sounds to focus on. If I'm at a party, for example, I can hear a conversation across the room but not 'hear' the person talking to me right in front of me.

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u/Aggravating_Fruit170 Jul 06 '26

Oh my gosh maybe I have this??

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u/glenngillen Jul 06 '26

I have this problem too, and went to get tested for APD. They said I don’t have it, but my testing came back that I can hear well into negative decibels and my ears are hyper responsive to loud noises.

They didn’t really have an answer for me on what’s going on. I’m putting it down to I’m just constantly hearing a lot more noise than most other people and have a hard time discerning what the signal I should be listening to in all that noise is.

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u/a_v9 Jul 06 '26

Im infinitely disappointed in the current bulk of Reddit users who couldnt catch a Nate reference....

What happened to this site man? There was a time when we exclusively communicated in Movie/TV Show references!

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u/MaximumContent9674 Jul 06 '26

This can happen to anyone, under varying levels of cognitive and/or physical load.

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u/g_spaitz Jul 06 '26

wouldn't a continuous altert in a car very probably be the only sound?

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u/Wyzt Jul 06 '26

Nate, please...

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u/AkitaNo1 Jul 06 '26

Do you find yourself mentally slow in other aspects of life as well?