[blueyoda]

This sounds exactly like me. Strangely enough, my hearing test was perfect.

Whenever there is background noise, I cannot decipher what someone is saying. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked, “are you deaf?”

Could it be some form of ADHD?

[glenngillen]

I had a similar inkling, which is what led me to discovering APD. The tests for that were normal though.

This whole “hidden hearing loss” concept seems like such a broad term for a huge group of things. Some of them potentially related to dysfunction in the inner ear that we can’t test for but can be treated (in mice) with neurotrophin.

The specialist I saw said at the last conference she attended the researcher presenting on it said most patients presenting were in their 40s. I’ve not seen any papers that make such a claim though. I was only the second patient she’d personally encountered that had the symptoms, and we are both in our 40s.