Hearing things?

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Is it common for people with aspergers to hear things other people don't? I don't mean like voices or anything like that, but I mean is it common for aspies to have acute hearing?

I often hear humming and ringing noises 1-3 days before an earthquake hits. I know I'm not imagining them, because my cat's ears will move to the ringing I'm hearing. However, I'm not sure about how earthquakes have a humming sound before they hit. Lately, I've been hearing many of these ringing noises. I also have the ability to seperate individual voices from a whole crowd, but only one at a time. I can analyze a person's voice for certain traits as well. I had to use this skill for socialization.

Maybe my hearing is sensitive because I had to rely on it so much?

I can hear dog whistles and insect repeller devices that most people can't hear. I remember standing out in the garden trying to get the rest of my family to hear the high pitched bleeping every few seconds.

Normally, children can hear sounds at a higher frequency than adults. Hence those high-pitched sounds being used to deter teenagers, or for secret ring-tones that adults can't hear. However, I never grew out of it, and my hearing is still as hypersensitive as ever.

Yes. It's possible.

I don't think it's a matter of better hearing, but of not having a strong filtering system to block out "unimportant" sounds.

I notice sounds that other people block out; but I imagine if the sounds were called to their attention, they would notice them just as easily as I do.

I have always had sensitive hearing. I can hear high pitch frequencies. When I was younger, I freaked people out because I could hear them whispering from across the street. And, loud noises cause me physical pain.

I too have keen hearing. When I was in school, I would often have to have the standard yearly hearing test re-done because when they would individually test each ear with their "beep," I would hear it in the other ear too. Maybe it is an autistic thing. I will be waiting to see if there is an earthquake---you could be a valid asset for warning people.

I remembe that for some reason, they seemed to give me the hearing test over and over and over again..

I hear sounds that might not be there...I pick odd noises out of the jumble of noises all around...sometimes I think my cell phone is ringing when it isn't...i will keep hearing the melody or part of the melody. It is kinda nerve wracking.

You may be onto something.

1.) Been attracted, intensely, to music all my life.

2.) Hearing has always tested perfect.

3.) Many times I've been able to hear phones ringing by hearing the different frequency--while at band practice. Phones in the same room with 80 decibel noise.

4.) At a specific band practice, I heard the dog barking outside. No one else did. Because I then went outside to investigate, was able to prevent a minor catastrophe. People were sneaking up on us in the dark. Nevermind who.

This happens to me too. Often I'll think my cell phone is ringing and actually it's just sounds from the hum of my computer than my brain seems to string together threads from which are reminicent of a few bars of the tune. Or it'll be wind chimes outside. Or even just the everyday white noise in the background. It's like I'm trying to make sense out of/pick apart/interpret all sounds all the time ^^;

I can get highly annoyed by the ticking of an analogue (sp?) wrist watch that's lying on a table 2 meters away from me.
The mechanical heartvalve of a collegue; i can hear it if he's within 2 meters from me.
The high-whining pitch of a television (CRT)
The hum of a LCD monitor

Yep, the cellphone melody when it's not there happens a lot to me. Most of the time I have to conciously listen wether or not it is ringing. I'm later than most when picking up the phone if i don't have it close by (in my hand, my desk, or at least visually available to see the display light up), because i have to make sure the damn thing is actually ringing this time.

There's a number of songs that to me have my cell-ringtone in the background/interweaved in the music; even though other people don't seem to hear it (only checked with one person; don't want more people to know get confused by those songs).



Same. I still don't know why, i got told one of my ears was deaf 80%, but recently i think i messed up those test because of hearing stuff that wasn't there, and partly because there seemed to be a pattern in the (not really) random intervals between the notes/signals and starting to click the "I'm hearing something button" when i thought there should be a tone, just to test if the pattern i'd deduced was right. And ofcourse missing a note because i was surprised it broke the pattern i had deduced and clicked far too late.

Hmm, i think i rambled a bit here.

I know for a fact that I sometimes hear "beyond" what people sitting right next me hear, but this might have more to do with my paying attention more intensely than having superior hearing. I don't know, I've never been tested.

Hearing test: I think I would raise my hand when there weren't supposed to be tones happening..

I actually have hearing problems.

But having had literally dozen of hearing tests and the people doing them get annoyed and repeatedly telling me to own press the button when I hear a sound, I still say I always did, I kept hearing the noise.

On a related note:-Does anyone here someone calling their name sometimes, I've been woken up because I swear I hear my mum calling my name, and one time It happened in a cafe, I asked if she called my name but she hadn't.

I also hear voices as when I'm lying in bed, nothing freaky, just the sort of voices you'd hear if you went into a room, one that I can remember was "my dad got me a new cadallac".There not talking to me, there just there. The only time it scared me was when I heard a prayer in a foreign language (it sounded like Latin, but since I don't know latin, aside from a view words) since I didn't understand it I just prayed to god to make it go away and immediately it stopped.

I have always heard things very well. I can hear things like someone pulling up onto the driveway if I am in the den. With me around, if we order take out, no one ever rings the bell because I am always there to greet them anyway. Also one time my mom said that when I was 3, I was in my room and she pulled a banana peel down in the kitchen which wasn't anywhere near my room... I immediately ran down into the kitchen. She thought it was funny that I heard that... and yet couldn't figure out, since I had such keen hearing why I wasn't able to talk.

I do every now and again. Sometimes I think that I hear someone shout my name but when I turn round nobodys there.

Yep. Or sometimes when you're just about fall asleep, only to be fully awake again.
It's happens extremely rarely though; can only remember it happening a couple of times.

it may be just an individulist thing