Related to the last post.

[conuly]

I'm not especially interested in seeking a diagnosis of a CAPD. Whether or not I have one is a different issue, but it's hard enough for me to deal with the things that need to be dealt with, much less worrying about something like this.

However, regardless of a diagnosis or not, I do have some problems in the hearing department. Mostly, my hearing is too good. This is very annoying. Some of us don't like having to unplug various appliances just to get a good night's sleep. And while it's useful to be able to hear spoken conversations from down the block, it's annoying when... well, when I'm trying to sleep. Sleep, the bane of my existence, where I should be RIGHT NOW.

And I can't easily not hear things. So if there's noise, I can't "tune it out" unless I'm completely absorbed in whatever it is I'm doing. Unfortunately, I had to teach myself not to get that absorbed in anything (I missed one too many lunches, and it's really not safe) so now I hear it all. Gah.

All this adds up to "I can't do group discussions in class".

English class is full of those. Or reading your work to the other person.

God forbid you say "here, let's just read each other's work instead of reading it aloud", you'll end up having to explain this to the professor later. I *like* this professor. I really do. But I'm not sure I'm making sense to her about this. I said "there's no way for me to be able to participate in a group thing while all the other groups are talking" and she said "okay" and... nothing. So we do occasional group things, and I see how high I can count in binary until I get confused.

Oh, and here's another question. Does anybody else find that if they're tired or stressed their senses go bonkers? If I stay up too late, when I go to sleep I hear things that aren't there (but I know it, it's not the same as "hearing things", exactly) or I see spots in front of my eyes, or I feel like I'm spinning.

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[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Oh, and here's another question. Does anybody else find that if they're tired or stressed their senses go bonkers? If I stay up too late, when I go to sleep I hear things that aren't there (but I know it, it's not the same as "hearing things", exactly) or I see spots in front of my eyes, or I feel like I'm spinning.

Yep. My senses play all sorts of weird tricks on me if I'm especially tired or stressed out... especially my vision. I'll see things that aren't there, while some things that are there will essentially be invisible to me. I occasionally have some weird auditory stuff go on as well; there've been times I could've sworn someone was calling my name when there wasn't anything around that could even remotely make a similar sound.

[conuly]

there've been times I could've sworn someone was calling my name when there wasn't anything around that could even remotely make a similar sound.

Shit, I don't even need to be stressed/tired to have that. When I was little, I was so stupid, I used to think it was real. I'd hear my dad or my sister, and I'd run to the window even though they'd been gone half an hour, wouldn't be back for a while.

Eventually I figured out the difference between real sounds and the mind kind, but it took time.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I get minor tactile hallucinations when I'm sleep deprived, and proceed to visual ones if I stay awake. But it never gets very bad.

Oddly, my musical recall ("internal jukebox") improves drastically as a result of sleep deprivation. It can be utterly fascinating, and a helluva lot of fun.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Oddly, my musical recall ("internal jukebox") improves drastically as a result of sleep deprivation. It can be utterly fascinating, and a helluva lot of fun.

My internal jukebox is on pretty much constantly.

Right now it's playing "Reichstag Fire". Which is... not conducive to sleep. (I'll blame the person who introduced me to David Rovics a few days ago.)

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

If I stay up too late, when I go to sleep I hear things that aren't there (but I know it, it's not the same as "hearing things", exactly) or I see spots in front of my eyes, or I feel like I'm spinning.

Yes on all three counts but especially the first. I have to be tired for spots or spinning but the auditory stuff isn't as exhaustion dependant. It can be a little disconcerting but you're right, I've always known it was definitely not "hearing things". I think about it sort of as 'phantom noise', if that makes sense, and it's always known sounds (radio background noise, familiar voices). I've actually gotten up a few times to make sure I've turned the radio off :)

A question on your hearing: can you hear camera flashes?

[conuly]

Can't everybody?

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

Confused the hell out of my parents the first time I was shocked that they couldn't. I always figured something that loud had to be obvious.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

When I get tired, especially when I'm fighting (thankfully now rare) anxiety attacks, I hear LOTS of things I normally don't notice...electrical current, structures settling, my own heartbeat...it drives me even madder.

I DO almost constantly hear the distinct but faint high-pitched hum of an electrical device that's on but in "hibernation". I can ehar a TV that's still on but not making "sounds" because it's still dialed in to the shut-off VCR/game console/whatever. A stereo that's tuned in for the tape deck or CD player but not in actual use is audible to me too.

But for the life of me, if I don't hear someone clearly (whether it's a difference in speech pattern or just muffled) my mind's ear won't make the meaningful translation to me. My hearing is excellent overall, but in certain instances you'll find me saying, "huh? what?" a lot. I think I get that from Mom, who has the same problem.

[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

When I get tired, especially when I'm fighting (thankfully now rare) anxiety attacks, I hear LOTS of things I normally don't notice...electrical current, structures settling, my own heartbeat...it drives me even madder.

I DO almost constantly hear the distinct but faint high-pitched hum of an electrical device that's on but in "hibernation". I can ehar a TV that's still on but not making "sounds" because it's still dialed in to the shut-off VCR/game console/whatever. A stereo that's tuned in for the tape deck or CD player but not in actual use is audible to me too.

This is me. And it sucks. The main reason we're moving is so I won't have to sleep in a bedroom wall-to-wall with a kitchen, the fridge is driving me insane with all the noise.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

That sounds a lot like me... I can hear the high-pitched squealing of electrical devices as well, which is something that many people just can't believe. And yeah, my hearing in itself is good, but if someone's voice is in any way distorted they might as well be speaking a foreign language.

[maozed.livejournal.com]

I thought I was crazy to believe that I could hear the TV when it's on mute, but maybe I'm not so crazy after all.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I was able — with some argument from the teacher at first — to use my CAPD diagnosis to get my group assigned to a separate room when we did those mass group-exam and every-break-up-into-little-discussion-groups nightmares. If your disability office is any good (which is a big if), you might be able to work out access alternatives with them based on an autism diagnosis or whatever it is you already have.

[conuly]

Do you know how hard it was for me even to get myself to get a diagnosis? Talking to the disability office is a bit much for me right now.

I really should, of course. I'd do a lot better on tests if I could have some peace and quiet.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Does anybody else find that if they're tired or stressed their senses go bonkers?

Isn't that so with everyone? I mean, one of the effects of sleep deprivation is hallucinations, it's nothing unusual - stay awake for 3 days at a stretch and you'll see :O (I tried. It was weird.) For some it might start earlier (ie. with less sleep deprivation) and for some it might start later, but it's nothing out of the ordinary, AFAIK.

Anyway, I know it's time to stop studying and go to bed when I hear melodies in the huge amount of noise that is generated by my computers. It's actually useful =D

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I've never hallucinated with sleep deprivation (even after being up three days), but my senses definitely become highly distorted by that point from overuse.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Brad & I both have our senses play tricks & don't even have to be tired.

I use noise/light to screen out stuff when I'm trying to sleep. It's why I have a TV in my room.

[thornleaf.livejournal.com]

After 24 hours with no sleep, I'll start to see rainbow-hued quadrilaterals, triangles, and stars, spinning around in my focal point, usually counter-clockwise, I think.

They get more pronounced and colourful the longer I've been awake.

I'll also start to become extra sensitive to any movement, especially where shadows are concerned.

Just before I fall asleep when I'm that tired, I'll hear things - my name being called is the most common. Sometimes I'll essentially have night terrors, too... once it felt like hundreds of hands were grabbing roughly at my body, but I couldn't move to do anything about it. I think I finally whimpered loud enough that my boyfriend asked what was wrong and woke me up.

Totally know what you mean about not being able to tune stuff out unless you're fully absorbed in what you're doing. When I'm reading, there could be someone standing right beside me and talking to me, and it wouldn't register. Which tends to get me in trouble.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Cameras, tv's computers. What was the absolute worst was when one of the developers at work brought in their own old special multisync NEC monitor. That thing drove me to industrial sabotage inside of 2 hours

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Oh, and here's another question. Does anybody else find that if they're tired or stressed their senses go bonkers? If I stay up too late, when I go to sleep I hear things that aren't there (but I know it, it's not the same as "hearing things", exactly) or I see spots in front of my eyes, or I feel like I'm spinning.

Yep. My senses play all sorts of weird tricks on me if I'm especially tired or stressed out... especially my vision. I'll see things that aren't there, while some things that are there will essentially be invisible to me. I occasionally have some weird auditory stuff go on as well; there've been times I could've sworn someone was calling my name when there wasn't anything around that could even remotely make a similar sound.

[conuly]

there've been times I could've sworn someone was calling my name when there wasn't anything around that could even remotely make a similar sound.

Shit, I don't even need to be stressed/tired to have that. When I was little, I was so stupid, I used to think it was real. I'd hear my dad or my sister, and I'd run to the window even though they'd been gone half an hour, wouldn't be back for a while.

Eventually I figured out the difference between real sounds and the mind kind, but it took time.

[dkmnow.livejournal.com]

I get minor tactile hallucinations when I'm sleep deprived, and proceed to visual ones if I stay awake. But it never gets very bad.

Oddly, my musical recall ("internal jukebox") improves drastically as a result of sleep deprivation. It can be utterly fascinating, and a helluva lot of fun.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Oddly, my musical recall ("internal jukebox") improves drastically as a result of sleep deprivation. It can be utterly fascinating, and a helluva lot of fun.

My internal jukebox is on pretty much constantly.

Right now it's playing "Reichstag Fire". Which is... not conducive to sleep. (I'll blame the person who introduced me to David Rovics a few days ago.)

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

If I stay up too late, when I go to sleep I hear things that aren't there (but I know it, it's not the same as "hearing things", exactly) or I see spots in front of my eyes, or I feel like I'm spinning.

Yes on all three counts but especially the first. I have to be tired for spots or spinning but the auditory stuff isn't as exhaustion dependant. It can be a little disconcerting but you're right, I've always known it was definitely not "hearing things". I think about it sort of as 'phantom noise', if that makes sense, and it's always known sounds (radio background noise, familiar voices). I've actually gotten up a few times to make sure I've turned the radio off :)

A question on your hearing: can you hear camera flashes?

[conuly]

Can't everybody?

[strangelette.livejournal.com]

Confused the hell out of my parents the first time I was shocked that they couldn't. I always figured something that loud had to be obvious.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

When I get tired, especially when I'm fighting (thankfully now rare) anxiety attacks, I hear LOTS of things I normally don't notice...electrical current, structures settling, my own heartbeat...it drives me even madder.

I DO almost constantly hear the distinct but faint high-pitched hum of an electrical device that's on but in "hibernation". I can ehar a TV that's still on but not making "sounds" because it's still dialed in to the shut-off VCR/game console/whatever. A stereo that's tuned in for the tape deck or CD player but not in actual use is audible to me too.

But for the life of me, if I don't hear someone clearly (whether it's a difference in speech pattern or just muffled) my mind's ear won't make the meaningful translation to me. My hearing is excellent overall, but in certain instances you'll find me saying, "huh? what?" a lot. I think I get that from Mom, who has the same problem.

[maddeinin.livejournal.com]

When I get tired, especially when I'm fighting (thankfully now rare) anxiety attacks, I hear LOTS of things I normally don't notice...electrical current, structures settling, my own heartbeat...it drives me even madder.

I DO almost constantly hear the distinct but faint high-pitched hum of an electrical device that's on but in "hibernation". I can ehar a TV that's still on but not making "sounds" because it's still dialed in to the shut-off VCR/game console/whatever. A stereo that's tuned in for the tape deck or CD player but not in actual use is audible to me too.

This is me. And it sucks. The main reason we're moving is so I won't have to sleep in a bedroom wall-to-wall with a kitchen, the fridge is driving me insane with all the noise.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

That sounds a lot like me... I can hear the high-pitched squealing of electrical devices as well, which is something that many people just can't believe. And yeah, my hearing in itself is good, but if someone's voice is in any way distorted they might as well be speaking a foreign language.

[maozed.livejournal.com]

I thought I was crazy to believe that I could hear the TV when it's on mute, but maybe I'm not so crazy after all.

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I was able — with some argument from the teacher at first — to use my CAPD diagnosis to get my group assigned to a separate room when we did those mass group-exam and every-break-up-into-little-discussion-groups nightmares. If your disability office is any good (which is a big if), you might be able to work out access alternatives with them based on an autism diagnosis or whatever it is you already have.

[conuly]

Do you know how hard it was for me even to get myself to get a diagnosis? Talking to the disability office is a bit much for me right now.

I really should, of course. I'd do a lot better on tests if I could have some peace and quiet.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Does anybody else find that if they're tired or stressed their senses go bonkers?

Isn't that so with everyone? I mean, one of the effects of sleep deprivation is hallucinations, it's nothing unusual - stay awake for 3 days at a stretch and you'll see :O (I tried. It was weird.) For some it might start earlier (ie. with less sleep deprivation) and for some it might start later, but it's nothing out of the ordinary, AFAIK.

Anyway, I know it's time to stop studying and go to bed when I hear melodies in the huge amount of noise that is generated by my computers. It's actually useful =D

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I've never hallucinated with sleep deprivation (even after being up three days), but my senses definitely become highly distorted by that point from overuse.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Brad & I both have our senses play tricks & don't even have to be tired.

I use noise/light to screen out stuff when I'm trying to sleep. It's why I have a TV in my room.

[thornleaf.livejournal.com]

After 24 hours with no sleep, I'll start to see rainbow-hued quadrilaterals, triangles, and stars, spinning around in my focal point, usually counter-clockwise, I think.

They get more pronounced and colourful the longer I've been awake.

I'll also start to become extra sensitive to any movement, especially where shadows are concerned.

Just before I fall asleep when I'm that tired, I'll hear things - my name being called is the most common. Sometimes I'll essentially have night terrors, too... once it felt like hundreds of hands were grabbing roughly at my body, but I couldn't move to do anything about it. I think I finally whimpered loud enough that my boyfriend asked what was wrong and woke me up.

Totally know what you mean about not being able to tune stuff out unless you're fully absorbed in what you're doing. When I'm reading, there could be someone standing right beside me and talking to me, and it wouldn't register. Which tends to get me in trouble.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Cameras, tv's computers. What was the absolute worst was when one of the developers at work brought in their own old special multisync NEC monitor. That thing drove me to industrial sabotage inside of 2 hours