And now, you can’t find you keys, glasses, etc.
Ain’t that the truth.
I can stare straight at a can of bean and ham soup in my cupboard and still not be able to find it. And it’s not because of poor eyesight either. I still have 20-20. That runs in the family. Eyesight stays good until about age 55, then only the close-up vision suffers, then about age 65 the cataracts sets in and by age 75-surgery or blindness-take your pick.
I don’t know what the problem is. I can dump all my tools out of my tool box and spread them around and not be able to find what I want...get disgusted and leave, come back 10 minutes later and spot it right away.
Similar problems with hearing. I can hear a car door slam half a block away from inside my house. I can hear dog whistles and the high pitch whine of an incandescent lightbulb at half power from a dimmer switch. I can hear a TV running when it’s on mute...the tube gives off a very faint whine. From upstairs, I can hear the gas valve open on my furnace in the basement a fraction of a second before it fires up. I can hear the sound a pebble makes on the pavement when it’s stuck in the tread of my car tire. I can hear tire scrub when the front end is out of alignment. I can tell you which cars in traffic are terribly low on oil just by the engine sounds.
But I have problems comprehending voices. I’m constantly saying “sorry, what?”, “come again?”, “can you repeat that?”. If someone speaks with an accent, I get a headache concentrating so hard to make sense of what they are saying. WHen I get tired of trying to decipher people’s words, I cut them off and start talking loudly so I don’t have to work so hard anymore at listening.
Well this post sure has nothing to do with the article.