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

[VincentHanna]

I only wear them when I fly, allows me to sleep on long hall flights and totally blocks out the plane and passenger noise.

Same here.

The rest of the time I like to know what's going on around me.

I can understand people wearing them on the underground as well, some of the older lines are hideously loud.

 

[SpellowHouse]

...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.

The theory is that if you live in a quiet environment then your brain doesn't get used to picking out important information from the background noise. Noise cancelling headphones take out the background noise so your brain doesn't develop or loses those skills.

There have always been people who suffered from this. This is just the first time that anyone has attributed a cause, and they are, of course, saying that noise cancelling is not a good idea if you use it too much. Wandering about with noise cancelling in all day is a bad idea.

I have always suffered from this a little. I just can't pick out voices from background noise, and I have noticed that others can when I can't. Maybe this was due to me growing up in the countryside where it was very quiet??

 

[Koalaboy]

I have always suffered from this a little. I just can't pick out voices from background noise, and I have noticed that others can when I can't. Maybe this was due to me growing up in the countryside where it was very quiet??

Was countryside school extremely quiet though ? Most kids will have grown up with a lot of noise at school, irrespective of where they live.
Maybe some village schools are very different I guess.

 

[SpellowHouse]

Was countryside school extremely quiet though ? Most kids will have grown up with a lot of noise at school, irrespective of where they live.
Maybe some village schools are very different I guess.

True enough and I just don't know enough to answer the question.

My first memory of noticing a difference was when I was about 18. But I really can't go back any further than that, so can't really say whether it was inherent or a result of environment. But then, maybe it's something different, because I find music irritating because I can't think when it's present. Maybe noise just works differently for me.

 

[Koalaboy]

My first memory of noticing a difference was when I was about 18. But I really can't go back any further than that, so can't really say whether it was inherent or a result of environment.

My daughter didn't really exhibit being sensory overwhelmed until mid-teens, but perhaps that was just when she realised it wasn't 'common'. Our house has always been quiet - not silent, but the schools definitely haven't been. I grew up in a quiet house, and never had the same thing, so we don't know either.

 

[Junglist]

Quite often I'll have my headphones in and on transparency mode whilst not listening to anything. Having something visible in my ears just makes it easier to ignore people

 

[aardvark]

i don't much evidence that headphone sare the cause there.
But i reckon i must have that APD though - i have always found it very hard to understand anyone in a noisy environment and i have much more difficulty understanding accents etc. than other people.