SentientPotato wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
You can get tinnitus at any age if there's damage to the auditory system, like from loud noise or infections. Mine has gotten worse in recent years. If it's affecting your life, you can get tested to see which frequencies are affected, and they can rule out other causes, especially simple ones like wax in your ears.
Definitely not a problem at all since it doesn't take much ambient noise to drown it out and it has persisted for as long as I can remember. It's a high-pitched squeal somewhere in the 15khz range or so. I've read though that in silence, a good majority of people report hearing a sound, which makes me skeptical of it actually being tinnitus, which is where the confusion lies -- at what point do we even classify it as tinnitus?
If you don't make the mistake I made, which is to go to too many concerts without wearing earplugs, hopefully the squeal you hear won't get worse. I can tune out the high frequency tones but they're there, sometimes louder than others. I can also hear distortion now when certain frequencies in my surroundings get too loud. It sounds like a speaker on overdrive, if you've ever heard that bit of irritation before. So I definitely don't want things to get any worse.
SentientPotato wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
Yeah. I also wonder the reverse: how many things I thought were weird actually aren't.
I tend to think about that one less, on account of growing up believing myself to be "normal," and any quirks a result of the choices I've made. Who knows? Maybe that's still true.
Maybe, but sometimes you might ask yourself, could I have made any other choice?
Raleigh wrote:
You seem intent on wearing me out.
I'm getting exhausted.
Feel my time isn't my own.
I don't need every moment of my day filled in with activities.
I can't really keep up this chit chat either.
I need to be ALONE.
But you're really lovely and helpful.
It's me, not you.

Wow, I don't think I'd handle that schedule of someone else's activities too well either. Don't most people need at least some downtime?

I'm continuously amazed at the people who get through their days without even an hour or two for whatever they want or need, away from someone else's needs.