Hyperacusis: A Hearing Impairment: "Most people know of only one type of hearing impairment – deafness. Hearing no sound at all can be very difficult but looking at the opposite side of it, hearing too much may also prove to be as hard. Hyperacusis is defined as the intolerance to normal and everyday sounds.
To give you a concrete illustration of hyperacusis, take for example a glass being put down on top of a desk. To ordinary people, the sound produced by such an act is hardly noticeable. For someone who is suffering from hyperacusis, such sound may be described as loud, even disturbing." ...(Click on title link above to read entire article) ...
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