>>166177226I'm back. I wasn't tired enough. A few things to add. I've always had really good hearing and sensitive ears, which I'm still pretty sure I have because I almost never mishear anything through a digital format and keep my electronics on low volumes because I can hear them clearly, but in regular conversation I used to constantly say "What?" whenever someone didn't speak clearly enough or with an accent. Most all face to face conversation I have is based entirely on context clues and random clarity, and it's a godsend when someone is properly enunciating. Unless I'm doing something interesting or that I can focus on, I need music or television or anything of the sort so that the ringing doesn't distract me. I was doing really poorly back in my last two years of high school because of it, and my parents made me take a bunch of those ADD and ADHD tests. I don't have any of that, and I barely graduated, leaving me in a poor relationship with my teachers and no references for work. I tried college, but the long boring classes unrelated to my major that I had to take for credit requirements made me almost kill myself because I spent so much time distracted by and listening to the ringing. I wish I could stop being a bitch and get over this annoyance, but I just can't handle doing anything that doesn't distract me from the ringing, and I've lost any willpower I have to make myself ignore it and focus on anything that doesn't immediately interest me.
