Silly question: can you hear sounds from unlikely sources (see details)?

Queefs?

Yes I can, when I slice my golf ball. I swear I can hear it pissing itself laughing as it wings it’s way to god only knows where. It’s such a cruel heartless game, with little or no compassion :¬(

My LCD monitor makes noise. It’s years old but I just started noticing, I dunno if it has become noisier or my hearing is better (doubtful) or my workspace is quieter.

I heard my muted TV emitting a low-volume, high-pitched tone recently too.
I got rid of it by turning off my cable box and resetting my cable-splitting switch.

When i was young(er) and i went out to the bars, and stayed out until very late in the morning, i could hear my parents whine, even though they were miles away.

The glass block wall in the bathroom makes a cracking noise. If I’m actually in the bathroom it sounds like someone is out there in the yard. I like it. XD

Old tube TVs had a flyback unit that generated a high pitched whine, which I can hear.

I used to be able to before my ear infections and surgery.

Like many autistic people, I can hear quite a variety of sounds, many of them above the normal person’s range of hearing though not as many as I used to now that I am older though… and/or easily ignored by most people. These include but are not limited to CRTs, fluorescent lights, transformers, cooling fans, metal-on-metal grinding, hard drives, camera flashes, turbochargers, and vibrating phones.

Needless to say, I often hear many of these sounds (and more obvious ones) at once at any given time, and sometimes it’s rather annoying :/

iI’s not the light, it’s the transformer circuit.

@jerv Like many autistic people, I can hear quite a variety of sounds, many of them above the normal person’s range of hearing

I don’t think those sounds are above a normal person’s rage of hearing, just that a “normal” person’s brain automatically filters out those noises so they don’t notice them unless they are paying attention to them.

@chocolatechip Trust me, I can’t even point the sounds out to people, especially not anyone older than me. We’re talking 15kHz here. That is why I drew the distinction between the high-pitched squeals and the type of sounds you refer to that people filter out. If you missed the “and/or” part then maybe I should’ve been clearer.

There’s a device called the Mosquito that is used to deter loitering teenagers from hanging around outside shops. It emits a high pitched noise that only young people can hear. Older people’s hearing loses senstivity to this range. Are all the people here who can here these noises young? Maybe it is the noises in this frequency that you can hear – and any oldies that hear them can feel proud of their youthful hearing!

Yes. So annoying! My hearing has gotten a lot worse as I’ve gotten older, though, so not as much anymore. Though I’m not autistic, I do have a very difficult time filtering out any noise. Too much of it, from too many different sources, will even give me a panic attack. :/

Those things bug the hell out of me!

@jerv – me too!

It’s funny that you say that, @jerv, because going through this Asperger’s checklist a while back, I came to realize that I share some of the same traits, one of which was sensitivity to noise. I can’t stand loud noises and little noises like the TV (or whatever else), I notice and sometimes they irritate me.

I’m 34, but I still can hear in the ‘teenager-only’ frequency.

@MissAnthrope My wife is only six months younger than me (late 30s) and can hear almost as well as me, including many (but not all) of the ultrasonic stuff. The difference between us is that she can tune it out; I can’t.

I can hear it all the time too, but I don’t let it bother me. Are we all borderline Asperger’s?