Can you hear dog whistles?

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rissadc
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21 Apr 2011, 3:32 am

I was just wondering how many people with Asperger's can actually hear dog whistles?
I'm kind of doing a little personal experiment.

Here's the poll.
Thanks!

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21 Apr 2011, 3:42 am

i can, mostly.

it kind of depends on the whistle and my current 'state' though; it's usually the cheaper whistles, as they have a slightly lower frequency, and i also have to be in what i call the 'acute state' in which my senses are stronger activated then they 'normally' are.

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21 Apr 2011, 4:24 am

I thought dog whistles were well within the average human hearing range? I can hear them at any rate.

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21 Apr 2011, 6:10 am

the thing about a dog whistle, is that it has fundamental tones that a normal human can hear, but extended harmonics that only dogs and other animals with dog-like hearing acuity [and some asthmatic humans, according to russian research] can hear.

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21 Apr 2011, 7:29 am

I have hypersensitive hearing and can hear things in varying frequencies before others hear anything.
I am usually the idiot driver who pulls in to let the fire engine pass while I am 5 miles in front of it. :lol: [slight exageration]

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21 Apr 2011, 8:36 am

I used to when I was younger, but not anymore

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21 Apr 2011, 8:42 am

loftyD wrote:

I used to when I was younger, but not anymore

I thought that was how it is supposed to go with people... children hear them and then you grow out of it. I think that is common.

Anyhoo... I never grew out of it. I still hear those things and I still dislike it.

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21 Apr 2011, 9:21 am

Yes, I can and the sound ranges from mildly irritating to f--king painful.

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21 Apr 2011, 3:19 pm

No. And I suspect your poll will return a strong bias towards "yes" regardless of the proportion of dog-whistle-hearers.

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21 Apr 2011, 4:33 pm

Only if the dogs pucker up and blow hard.

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21 Apr 2011, 4:48 pm

No. I can most certainly not hear them.

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21 Apr 2011, 4:56 pm

No one has ever used a dog whistle in my presence...is there a dog whistle audio clip online somewhere that I could listen to? I am now curious to see if I would be able to hear the harmonics.

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21 Apr 2011, 9:57 pm

I can hear dog whistles and they hurt my ears.

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21 Apr 2011, 10:50 pm

I can't "Hear" them, but they make my ears ring.

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CosmicRuss wrote:

[slight exageration]

Thanks for that, much appreciated

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13 Oct 2020, 4:54 am

Yes I can hear them and often I can hear bats etc.

I got told off by an angry man once. He had his dog with him and came close to my ear and blew his whistlw at the dog. Natrually I had to hold my hands over my ears as it was LOUD!
He became angry thinking I was pretending but it was LOUD! How come he couldn't hear it?

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