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Re:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people... by jmugan on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:33PM (#43083505)
It seems like you would have to wear them a lot to lose the ability to filter out noise naturally. Five hours seems insufficient, even for a teen. Maybe if you wore it all day? I want noise-canceling headphones that filter out all non-natural sounds. I want to hear the birds but not people talking or leaf blowers or trucks going beep beep beep. Maybe smarter headphones are the answer (besides, of course, making the world not so damn obnoxious).
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Re:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people... by HPsquared on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:40PM (#43083561)
It's probably just the opposite causation: people sensitive to noise are more likely to spend £250 on noise-cancelling headphones.
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Re:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people... by jemmyw on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:50PM (#43083637)
What if you don't wear it that many hours but it's all the hours you're in noisy environments? You'd lose the ability to naturally filter the noisy environments because you never experience them.

I have this to far less extremes: I've always sought quiet. There nothing wrong with my hearing as tested. I can't hear people talk very well in any kind of busy situation, and it at least seems to me that other people there aren't struggling. Of course they could be and they just don't say anything about it.

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Re:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people... by onemoresoop on Monday February 17, 2025 @04:58PM (#43083680)
I have the same issue and had it all my life but got a bit worse as I got older. I used to feel ashamed of this but no longer do as I excuse myself from environments that distress me. I’ve been thinking about hearing aids but just like you my hearing is good, it’s a processing issue and am not sure hearing aids could help. Still willing to give them a try, I heard the apple earpods pro are good at filtering out voices from a noise environment.
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Re:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people... by 7839284023 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:38AM (#43089976)
I suffer from Misophonia and I wear my Bose QC45 10 hours+ a day - each day. Without them I could not function and they made life with Misophonia somewhat tolerable.
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