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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 365563" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I live with a bunch of people who seem very loud. Often it is not the volume but the fact that they are projecting their voice. My father is AWFUL about it. He always projects as though he is in a room of 100 kids who won't stop talking. My hearing has always been far better than normal and if I am not very careful it gives me migraines - and I am even MORE sensitive to noise then!</p><p></p><p>What truly amazes me is that he has read some kids books onto tapes. Mostly Uncle Wiggily for Wiz when he was younger. NO ONE can play them unless they want to go to sleep. Wiz used to beg us to play them in the car. The one time we did we almost had an accident the first five minutes. I do not know how someone's voice can be so forceful in conversation and so soothing other times. </p><p></p><p>on the other hand, people tend to complain they cannot hear me. After years of the family badgering me because they cannot hear me over their shouting I just stopped talking around them. It is what it is. </p><p></p><p>DDD, his hearing perception is probably quite off. The volume on his hearing aid may need to be adjusted. Hearing aids affect how you hear because everything is louder. The brain usually filters background noises out so that they are not noticeable. With a hearing aid it doesn't quite work like that. I don't know exactly how to explain it, but my Gpa used to have times that he insisted my Gma was shouting all the time. In fact she was one of the softest voiced people I ever knew. Often when someone has a hearing problem their perceptions of sound are different than they were previously. Problems can creep up slowly so that you don't really remember how things used to sound because it seems that they have always been that way. Sort of like when you get new glasses and all the colors seem much brighter and only then do you realize how your sight had deteriorated. My grandparents always had hearing aids and I ended up learning a lot about them for a kid because I tended to listen to everything.</p><p></p><p>Just remember, other people's opinions of you are none of your business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 365563, member: 1233"] I live with a bunch of people who seem very loud. Often it is not the volume but the fact that they are projecting their voice. My father is AWFUL about it. He always projects as though he is in a room of 100 kids who won't stop talking. My hearing has always been far better than normal and if I am not very careful it gives me migraines - and I am even MORE sensitive to noise then! What truly amazes me is that he has read some kids books onto tapes. Mostly Uncle Wiggily for Wiz when he was younger. NO ONE can play them unless they want to go to sleep. Wiz used to beg us to play them in the car. The one time we did we almost had an accident the first five minutes. I do not know how someone's voice can be so forceful in conversation and so soothing other times. on the other hand, people tend to complain they cannot hear me. After years of the family badgering me because they cannot hear me over their shouting I just stopped talking around them. It is what it is. DDD, his hearing perception is probably quite off. The volume on his hearing aid may need to be adjusted. Hearing aids affect how you hear because everything is louder. The brain usually filters background noises out so that they are not noticeable. With a hearing aid it doesn't quite work like that. I don't know exactly how to explain it, but my Gpa used to have times that he insisted my Gma was shouting all the time. In fact she was one of the softest voiced people I ever knew. Often when someone has a hearing problem their perceptions of sound are different than they were previously. Problems can creep up slowly so that you don't really remember how things used to sound because it seems that they have always been that way. Sort of like when you get new glasses and all the colors seem much brighter and only then do you realize how your sight had deteriorated. My grandparents always had hearing aids and I ended up learning a lot about them for a kid because I tended to listen to everything. Just remember, other people's opinions of you are none of your business. [/QUOTE]
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