Good sense of hearing

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Same here. My hearing in itself is excellent-- I can hear sounds, like the TV flyback circuit, that most people can't hear, and I have perfect pitch as well. Yet I can't make out what people are saying a lot of the time-- subtitles make movies so much easier to follow, and I wish real life had them too.

interesting. . . .I became profoundly hearing impaired in early childhood, and I recieved a cochlear implant that gives me near-normal hearing at age 13. Despite years and years of auditory training I still can't understand one on the telephone or a lot of stuff on TV without captions. . . .

I have an automatic cut-off on my implant that limits the amount of sound that I hear. . .lucky me!

unfortantly, it is low enough that if I stood next to a vacuum cleaner and a jet engine they would sound at the same level. . . I would probably feel the viberations though.

Sometimes people think that i struggle hearing them and assume that i am slightly deaf, or just not heard them at all, this is really not the case i usually find that there is so much going on that i seem to hear everything that is going on all at once like the start of a conversation, the hifi in the background another conversation the phone ring and the tv in the background even some lights make a noiseand seem to get a sensory overload if that makes sense to anyone.

Yes, me too. Trying to speak to my friends in a restaurant, I said "what?" so much one friend told me I need hearing aids .

Glad to hear i'm not alone Civet, I like your cool site -thanx!