Quite the opposite. I find that I shock even myself from time to time with how perceptive I am from an auditory perspective. For example, I'll sometimes very faintly hear one of our dogs bark at the door to come back inside (Most often it is the German shepherd, Jack, who is quieter when "asking".), and will then go downstairs/ask somebody closer to let it in, and lo and behold, it does. That said, my ears sometimes fail me. For example, I'll hear something faint upstairs and will mistake it for my name, ask if I was called and get told "no". I've also had some minor hallucinations that are like what I've just described (Only those weren't hallucinations, per se.), except I'm much closer to the perceived source of the stimuli and so I know that if nothing was said to me at all, there's very little chance I misinterpreted something that was said.
Edit: Dove in and posted without reading the other posts after misreading the thread title. Would have got the gist of it had I not been so trigger happy, so my mistake. That said, I don't find that many people have a hard time understanding me. If they do, it's less because of their hearing problems and more because I stutter or tend to sometimes go off on tangents with people I am comfortable with. Oh, and I also have a tendency to talk fast, like Pensieve noted.
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