• earphone843@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Hearing loss doesn’t necessarily mean that everything gets quieter. What it can mean is that you have a harder time differentiating between sounds.

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      Further, electronic hearing aids can butcher sound with a goal to produce understandable spoken word alone. Music can sound like garbage depending on how severe the hearing loss is in the person and what functional hearing remains.

    • C A B B A G E@feddit.uk
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      2 days ago

      I have tinnitus and struggle in loud places to focus on conversations because I just get an unfiltered mess and f noise hitting my brain.

      It sucks, because I can hear a pin drop the rest of the time.

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      Especially higher pitched sounds which in my experience is most default ring tones. My gramps can understand me, a dude, no problem when I talk but my younger female cousins start talking fast in high pitched voices, then 9 times put of 10 gramps’ response will be a polite smile and nod cuz he can’t understand a word the little shitbags are saying.