burkphoto wrote:
I've had the same problem since I was a teen. I can attend to and process about one sound at a time. With all the silly yakking in homeroom, I'd just meditate on my schedule and tune everything else out. My wife calls that my "unfortunate skill." Yet my hearing tests mostly normal. (At 67, most of my top octave is gone... beyond around 12 KHz.)
It probably doesn't help that I like LOUD music (Classical, Blues, Rock, Jazz, Fusion...).
Not only do you lose high frequency response, but you lose some of the ability to isolate the one thing you’re interested in from many other sounds - a degradation in figure-ground discrimination. Something I’m more and more aware of as I age,