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I can hear the most minute of sounds. Even my kitten walking around downstairs (on a marble floor).
On the other hand, I hear way too much noise and have great trouble understanding speech because of it.
Just last week, it allowed me to hear the spinning of wheels stuck in mud a couple of klicks from my house, while I was eating dinner. Apparently someone got stuck in one of the muddy holes caused by the rains, in the middle of nowhere. Dropped him off at his place, and got the car freed the next day.
I kind of have the same thing! We have hearing tests at my place of work and the tests show I have above-average hearing, and it does translate outside the tests as well. It's really nice to be able to hear the intricacies of music for instance.
Unfortunately, it doesn't translate to speech, and I often struggle to comprehend what people are saying, and it gets even worse when it's in something that's not my native language... It's like I can hear the sounds people are making, inflection and all, but I can't quite form what the entire thought is.
Exactly! Unless I know what language they are speaking in advance, it takes a few seconds of listening for the words to appear out of the noise. Honestly, pretty damn annoying when you're on a call. I have to record all of them to be safe.