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I'm suffering from Hyperacusis, a kind of acute oversensitivity to sound- now slightly more manageable through years of gradual hearing loss and the onset of tinnitus...*
And I'm actually allergic to electricity- which gives all sorts of odd side effects, from synaesthesia to actual physical buzzing/jolts à la Poltergeist...
Unfortunately, none of my other senses followed suit... :slanted:
Interestingly, problems in processing sensory information seems to be a feature of autistic spectrum disorders (the lack of proper "filters" sorting the important bits from the random bits, causing sensory information overload- Perhaps a whiff of Asbergers would explain more than just a little bit of my erratic experiences over the years,lol!
...Although *that* fashionable diagnosis seem to get tagged almost uncritically to everyone and his grandmother nowadays, making me a bit suspicious about the use of it all, there seems to be a worrying trend of overdiagnostisation at the moment-
IMO most psychiatric diagnoses serves more as convenient selling point/propaganda for the medicine industry, who wants to push their nice little pills, than actually bettering treatments or helping people's health at all-
I mean, one of the GP's who tried to get me on medication had her office filled with pens, pads, stickers and whatnot boasting sympathetic ads for the very same product she wanted me to trust... (!) I daren't think of all the sponsored holidays, seminaries, spa weekends and treats they'd bribed her with that I *didn't* find out about... Although I doubted her integrity on the issue, and told her as much- Resulting in outraged frowns and a note to her successor labelling me as "difficult" and "argumentative"...

Yeah, sure, baby- Get me a free towel while you're at it, eh? Sigh...
(*although as a D.I.Y. "musician" I feel I've actually *benefited* from it, being able to remember/hear levels of sound apparently near inaudible to others, and having a sometimes bothersome memory/awareness of musical structures, although not formally trained- Ze parents early discovered i had musicality but didn't have the money for lessons- The only way to write things down is to use electronic equipment, and invent tracks from scratch... Use the gear to create the soundscapes without worrying too much about notes or chords, would've been nice to get a working knowledge of those things eventually, though!)