Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. That's what patients with hyperacusis endure day after day after day, feeling isolated and misunderstood because too often, even their doctors have never heard of their condition.
Hyperacusis is the scientific name for extreme sensitivity to sound.
It is a condition so rare that it strikes only one person in 50,000. It can make a person's life a living hell, where they can't carry on a normal conversation, take a shower, ride in a car, or many other normal activities because they can't tolerate the sounds involved, because they seem so loud. There are other, related disorders, hyperacute hearing, which is almost identical to hyperacusis, except the victim is born with it and it usually accompanies autism, and recruitment, a more common type of sound sensitivity that usually strikes the elderly. The thing that all these hearing disorders have in common is that sounds that fail to cause discomfort to normal ears can cause pain to the ears of their victims. Sometimes the sounds would make me cry.