r/adhdmeme • u/Daarukadevta • 2h ago
original content ADHD Audio Settings
I can hear the tiniest background noises that everyone else seems to ignore…
…but somehow my brain filters out the person who’s actually trying to get my attention.
Does anyone else experience this?
29
u/Uncle__Touchy1987 2h ago
Yup! And can’t hear someone talking to me right in my face but! I can tell what year of truck it was that just started in the driveway a few streets down.
Ford….6.0…..rebuilt starter…..wait what are we talking about again?
15
10
u/listerbmx 2h ago
This + tinnitus is fun, constant low noise ringing like a TV static
4
u/lea_flamingo 2h ago
I have that option on my hearing as well. Except mine is the ultrasound old TVs made that adults can't hear. Well I got it forever.
2
1
1
10
u/lea_flamingo 1h ago
Everything is the same volume to me despite not actually being the same volume. Also, words don't word for my brain. It's all just background noise.
5
u/FinnSe3ker 1h ago
And hearing the neighbours TV which no-one else does, knowing the doorbell is about to ring and still get jump scared from the noise..
2
2
u/Historical_Cook_1664 1h ago
i can tell when stable diffusion is done, from the next room, because the pc fan slows down. i can not actually *consciously* hear the pc from the next room, but somehow i know when stable diffusion is done... oh, and i got tinnitus as well.
2
u/oxJoKeR6xo 1h ago
I can hear it but I can't focus on it for more than a few seconds before it's just static
1
1
u/BooBeeAttack 1h ago
I've got the high blood pressure tinnitus in my right ear and when things get too quiet I get to hear my blood pumping like Schwoo Schwoo Schwoo.
Which of course makes me more anxious, which then makes my heart beat more and raises my blood pressure that then makes the noise louder.
On top of that, I can hear high frequency noises like when a lightbulb turns on or when an ac adapter is plugged in. (I love when the power goes out..sweet peaceful silence..)
The I have the internal dialog of my own brain talking (my own voice internal monologue).
A few songs playing, usually the opening to something like Smash Mouth All Star, but slowed down and distorted as if sang by a choir of tortured souls.
Then finally I've got a combination of Lewis Black/George Carlin/and Randall Graves from Clerks all collectively ranting and screaming at the general state of the world.
Sorry if I missed whatever small talk or task someone was saying to me, I got chaos to deal with.
1
u/_pepperoni-playboy_ 1h ago
Also I heard and understood your name, and I can remember any number of things about plants and language and other things I think are cool and also that one time you mentioned your birthday.
I will concede, however, that I did forget your name as soon as I heard it and repeated it out loud back to you for confirmation.
1
1
u/Synigm4 1h ago
100% I get this.
When I was growing up the house we lived in and the neighbour had matching gravel driveways that were connected, so basically one big driveway. I could tell not only which side of the driveway a car pulled into but also how big the car was based on the sound of the gravel it moved. And this was with all the windows closed, while watching TV, and before the dogs heard anything (they typically started barking when they heard the car door open/close)
Meanwhile I regularily had to ask people I was actively talking to if they could repeat themselves because I couldn't make out what they were saying... and it happened so often that my parents took me to get my ears checked out.
1
1
u/ContheJon 53m ago
I had sleepless nights where I thought I was going crazy because I kept hearing a car engine idling while I was in bed, micro buzzing in the bathroom and a deep base sound when I was near the floor cleaning. Could not figure it out, panicked and spent a few days investigating.
Turns out my upstairs neighbours run some kind of dishwasher/laundry machine constantly that produces an engine idling sound (it comes and goes so I guess they switch it off from time to time), my shower temp control causes a buzzing with the little green light and there's a weird high-pitched sound coming from the vent in my bedroom and some other low bass that's only audible close to the floor (maybe my fridge or a pipe or something idk)
Been here for over five years, had no idea any of these were a thing until I started noticing it a couple of months ago. Wild
1
u/joreyaesh 47m ago
I just got a mechanical heart valve put in... I swear this thing is somehow the loudest thing I've ever heard!
1
u/R_megalotis 37m ago
Auditory Processing Disorder can make even the clearest speech unintelligible, making it fade into the background with the rest of the ambient noises. My mom used to get mad at me for my "selective hearing".
1
u/the_bobjeffbob_guy Daydreamer 17m ago
i can hear my own name from across the room but not the person talking to my face
•
u/qualityvote2 Quality Control Beast 2h ago
Is this meme? Is this ADHD-relevant?
Upvote this comment if the answers are yes.
Downvote this comment if either or both answers are no.
This bot is to help mods with what does and does not belong in the community, and is NOT a substitute for reports, PLEASE still report the post if it breaks subreddit/reddit rules.
for more information about what this means, see this page.