dragoncat16
Active Member
When I was a kid, I could be standing on the street and hear which houses on the street had TVs on, because of the high frequency noise CRT-type TVs would make. Now, flatscreen TVs don't make that sound, so I can no longer do that, but it was really amazing to me that most adults didn't believe me at the time, because to me the sound was so LOUD. My dad did believe me because he could also hear TVs as a kid and nobody believed him either.
I have just done a hearing test on youtube with headphones (
), and I found that in my left ear I can hear above 13 kHz which is considered excellent, but in my right ear, I can hear above 17 khz which is quite unusual for human hearing, and I am definitely not a kid anymore, so conceivably my hearing range was even higher when I was a child. The above test was done with the volume on the lowest possible setting, so it is conceivable that I could have heard even higher frequencies if I had turned the volume up.
What frequency is your cut-off? Do you think that people on the spectrum tend to have better high-frequency hearing because of some physical characteristic of our ears, or is it the way the brain processes the information? Is a sensitivity to high frequency sounds the reason why we are more senstitve to sound in general? Do you have any malls near where you live that have those high frequency speakers that are supposed to repel teenagers? Those things are painful and give me a headache. Do they do that to you as well?
Note: I did find a similar thread, but it was from 2014, so I started a new one. I hope that's ok.
I have just done a hearing test on youtube with headphones (
What frequency is your cut-off? Do you think that people on the spectrum tend to have better high-frequency hearing because of some physical characteristic of our ears, or is it the way the brain processes the information? Is a sensitivity to high frequency sounds the reason why we are more senstitve to sound in general? Do you have any malls near where you live that have those high frequency speakers that are supposed to repel teenagers? Those things are painful and give me a headache. Do they do that to you as well?
Note: I did find a similar thread, but it was from 2014, so I started a new one. I hope that's ok.