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Racket, din, clamor, noise. Whatever you want to call it, unwanted sound is America's
most widespread nuisance. But noise is more than just a nuisance. It constitutes a real
and present danger.... Day and night, at home, at work, and at play,
noise can produce serious physical and psychological stress. No one is immune to this
stress. Though we seem to adjust to noise by ignoring it, the ear, in fact, never closes
and the body still responds - sometimes with extreme tension....
The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the
stress building up inside us. Indeed, because irritability is so apparent, legislators
have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement programs. The more subtle
and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have
been given much less attention. Nonetheless, when we are annoyed or made irritable by
noise, we should consider these symptoms fair warning that other things may be happening
to us....
Noise: A Health Problem
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Noise Abatement and Control
Washington, DC 20460
August 1978
To which
let me just add. . . .
Imagine a
CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER
built up over time as one discrete harmonic of a massive environmental standing wave. Dimensionally complex. Transient across frames of reference. Focused on and stable around an energy source—a self aware, self motive intelligence. In this case, a person. Some impetus about the person serves to generate–or seek–conditions that re-enforce the inputs modifying the receptors. Or, more exactly, signaling the self modification of the reception. The modification could be considered either an adaptation or an adverse reaction, but it must be assumed to be a disassociated consequence of the framework underlying the repeated exposure. Hence the cyclical history in question.
Acousticophobia doesn't really sum it up. Phonophobia trys, but doesn't get any closer. Our old friend Antipathy dances around the mark looking a little too self conscious and antagonistic. And anyway, she's got two left feet.
Le Mothe de Nayer felt faint at the sound of any musical
instrument; Nicano had a strong aversion to the sound of
a flute.
E. Cobham Brewer 1810-1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
It is best called an auto audio Attrition disorder. Or Hyperacusis?
No?
W h a t e l s e ?
. . . . someone must have a name for this thing . . . . . . .