Pluperfect
Recycles dryer sheets
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- Dec 12, 2018
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Right, and what's really ironic is that my hearing is really getting bad - yet loud "noise" bothers me unlike when I was young and had good hearing. What's up with that?
I think it's because the training your brain did to filter out unwanted noise when you had good hearing doesn't work when your hearing goes bad. My boyfriend has fantastic hearing and is rarely bothered by noise, but I am, despite having profound loss in one ear and moderate to severe loss in the other ear.
I also think it has to do with the fact that I'm always trying to hear everything I can, but that includes noises I don't actually want to hear. I am simply unable to "ignore" unwanted noise any more, and it suuuuuucks.
However, here's an interesting phenomenon when it comes to being bothered by noise. We live in an RV and there's one place we stay for extended periods of time--at a truck driving school. So they're firing up giant diesel engines all the time, and driving around in the parking lot practicing, and it doesn't bother me at all because that noise is supposed to be there.
But if I'm staying in an RV park where there's a barking dog next door, it drives me insane, because that noise doesn't have to be there.
Same with being out and about. We almost never eat in table-service restaurants because I like to pick where to sit and be able to move if somebody is annoying. Like someone watching a video on his phone with the sound on. Somehow I can hear that from across the room, and a conversation between two people at that volume wouldn't bother me but the sound from the phone makes me almost homicidal. Because two people talking is supposed to happen, but watching videos with the sound on doesn't have to happen.