Hearing sensitivity/hypercusis/recruitment

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You R right... Coughing is in our everyday life... I can't controll it so I must look for answers with him. You can't imagine how isolated this condition has cause us to become.. My fear it that when I am long gone, no one else will be as cautios as myself in protecting him from the world... If he ever lays hands on anyone he will be locked away... So I have to figure something out. Finding out first of all what is does to him. He is autistic with retardation and does not have the control that a person with AS has.. although, hen sounds offend him he will try to get away... unless there is some dumb person caring for him that won't let him leave.. that has happened.. but as you know, a cough is sudden.. unretrievable.. and so offensive to him. And frankly, I have tried soft ear plugs but he still hears and rages.. But I thought if he had the headphones, with pleasant music, it might distract him... It would help if I knew what I was dealing with... I have also heard of bio-feedback being a possible solution.. but haven't found anyone yet who still administers that treatment. Ny son can't be the only person in the world with this problem...I have tried going on some of the autistic blogs but they are all for younsters who can benefit the most from treatments.. Where on earth are all the autistic adults in this world? I fear many have been swept aside, placed in group homes or institutions, locked away where no one can see or no about their plight. I keep searching... Thanks for your input.

Bose sells good ones. He can just wear them during the day when he does not need to communicate with people.

My husband's sneezes are like horrible half sneeze/brain expulsion/coughs. He usually also sneezes right next to me. It is painful sometimes to hear and also tends to irritate me. For your son it is maybe both painful and irritating. And we have a hard time blocking out annoying sounds, so it makes it worse.

I am usually bothered by a combination of the pitch, volume and type of sound. I can handle louder sounds as long as they have a lower pitch. The higher the pitch, the lower the volume needs to be. As for type of sounds... water drops, bugs crawling around, heavy breathing/snoring, etc. tend to be sounds I have a hard time dealing with no matter what the volume or pitch is.

[b]I will look for some headphones... I wish there were some therapy for this problem. Has anyone tried the bio-feedback therapy?
My son is currently on Risperdone, which is supposed to help with this problem... and maybe it does on some sounds but we just can't seem to get the coughing sound fixed. Appreciate all your suggestions. I hope I am posting this stuff right... Think I lost one response i posted to "New Thread".. I am not normally a blogger.. Be patient with me.

There are some adults here who have been diagnosed with classic autism. Maybe some of them can offer advice?

I used to be much more bothered by certain sounds, particularly startling ones. I wouldn't let my mother vaccuum when I was home. I couldn't fall asleep in a room with a ticking clock in it. I'm not sure what happened, but at some point I just learned to ignore the sounds. I learned when certain startling noises would happen (such as memorizing the dishwasher cycle) and would be able to know when they occur. I still get a moment of anxiety when unpredictable and loud noises happen, but it passes quickly.

I found the Hyperacusis network, it is a website run by a man in america who has had severe hyperacusis, worth a look.. see my signature.....

Sometimes if I hear a really irritating noise (high pitched normally, and coughs generally do have a higher pitch-sharper, when they come out), the insides of my ears itch....

It isn't necessarily painful, but man it drives me bonkers! I've never gone into a fit of rage, but have gotten quite snippy with people I know. I think it's just the overwhelming discomfort of itchy ears.

I can't wear the protectors, they don't help me at all. Then I get this weird suction...ish type of noise with it. Especially if I need to take them off to hear something clearly. I can't listen to people with something over my ears generally anyway, so a lot of the time it just wouldn't be ideal. Anyway, with headphones or anything like that, anything with a vinyl type of surface that can adhere to my head, is never a good thing for me. I start hearing this "wrm...wrm..." noise... like a whooshing, or pulsing, or something going on with it, and wind up more overstimulated than when I started out.

+1. You would be surprised by how many "problems" are just because they are unsure of how to act.

think of Helen Keller and her "fits". No one had taught her what to do when certain things occur, so she just had to figure it out on her own. When I was young and my brothers would pick on me I would bite them. It was effective, albeit not the best way to handle problems.

I'm a 50 year old guy with hypersensitive hearing. I've had this hearing problem for at least 15 years now.
It's gotten worse over the years.
I use wax earplugs and a firing-range headset a lot.
I won't even walk down the street without my earplugs in.
These sounds are really troublesome:
High-pitched automobile braking sounds, clapping, door-hinge creaking, Harley's, garbage trucks, cars with no mufflers, etc.
I went to an audiologist and an ENT specialist. They both had no remedy for me.
I have never been diagnosed with autism.
Does anybody have an recommendations on how I can remedy this problem?
Any ideas would be helpful.

Be aware that if his issues are truly misophonia (which can get misdiagnosed as hyperacusis), then no amount of noise cancellation will help at all unless it totally blocks out not only the noise but any other sensory cues to the event in question. Read up on misophonia if you've never heard of it before, it's far more likely to provoke violence than hyperacusis is. (I have both hyperacusis and misophonia so I know about this to some extent.)

You might find some sort of benefit by speaking to an occupational therapist. If it is only the sound of coughing that throws him into fits, it may be helped via some therapy. You can do google searches and find all manners of therapies that work for autistic kids to help them with this problem.