All I know is that when I am trying to follow a conversation in a crowded pub/coffee shop/restaurant/public space, I have to consciously do things I have read of deaf people doing naturally: mainly look carefully at the person speaking and keeping track of the context so as to guess the gist of what is being said. I have been known to get it fairly thoroughly wrong.
I have also had occasions (including one christmas dinner) where the overload made me almost shut down. Everyone shouting over everyone else, and all I can hear is a roar filled with sounds that almost have meaning, but which I can't hear enough of to make any of it out.
Distinctly unpleasant, that. And when I came out of it, it was because everyone else was quiet, and looking at me in some alarm.
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Date: 2009-03-15 09:04 pm (UTC)I have also had occasions (including one christmas dinner) where the overload made me almost shut down. Everyone shouting over everyone else, and all I can hear is a roar filled with sounds that almost have meaning, but which I can't hear enough of to make any of it out.
Distinctly unpleasant, that. And when I came out of it, it was because everyone else was quiet, and looking at me in some alarm.