What use are noise cancelling headphones and subtitles on the front line...

[Hagar]

...in life, love or war.

Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people

More young people are presenting to audiology teams in England with difficulty processing sound.

www.bbc.co.uk

Another alphabet soup illness APD possibly caused by headphones leading to more anxiety and mental illnesses. Along with ADHD etc., etc.i have often seen younger people with headphones on and assumed they had some good tunes however it seems another real life avoidance device. I really do wonder.

Defend this for me or just explain.please.

 

[Hagar]

It's fascinating to see how developments in medical science and diagnosis are so quickly dismissed by those who think they know better.

Is it a development to diagose self harm, give it a label then admit they do not have any answers to it.

 

[Hagar]

What’s with the image? That’s an autistic dude wearing ear muffs not headphones due to sensory issues

They're not ear muffs (for thermal protection) but ear defenders probably for loud noise protection ie building sites where they are often mandatory.

However when you cannot hear the dog about to bite, the wasp about to sting, the cow about to crush, the incoming shell...

Hyperbole I know but we have an auditorysense for good reason and blocking it is not common sense. I spent a lot of my working life on and around piling rigs and other loud machinery. My hearing at 70 is non too good and I should have worn protection more. Excluding all auditory inputs is too far the other way and indeed seems to cause damage too.

 

[Hagar]

The topic is about people without a prior diagnosis developing an auditory processing disorder through use of said items.

I know, I know, I know, I posted the thread and read the article despairing of modern life.
Ear muffs like hand muffs are generally furry things to keep out the cold. Ear defenders or protectors do muffle the sound and the yanks probably use the terminology mufflers as they also use mufflers for exhaust silencers. However they are properly defenders or protectors

 

[Hagar]

How many near misses with a cow did you have on the piling rig?

Not on piling rigs but I also worked as a farm labourer for a neighbour a year after school and have had significant nudges when walking the beasts along a country lane. Carry a big stick and let the dogs do most of the work.

I was injecting a bit of humour into a sad situation.