![Felipe’s story: “We are handicapped, and I would rather act accordingly than suffer for no reason. The more I recognize what hurts me and what does not, the better I can go through life.”](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Felipe.jpg)
![Felipe’s story: “We are handicapped, and I would rather act accordingly than suffer for no reason. The more I recognize what hurts me and what does not, the better I can go through life.”](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Felipe.jpg)
![BBC News: “Hearing my children’s laughter is like torture.”](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Karen-Cook-cropped-1080x675.jpg)
BBC News: “Hearing my children’s laughter is like torture.”
Karen Cook, a former flight attendant, shared her story with the BBC, describing how pain hyperacusis has so drastically altered her life.
![Hyperacusis; an Engineering Perspective](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Frank-Mangusson-954x675.png)
Hyperacusis; an Engineering Perspective
By Frank Magnusson I am an aerospace engineer and former test pilot with hyperacusis. Hyperacusis is poorly understood, and there is so much conflicting advice that I had to examine it from an engineering problem-solving approach to learn to deal with it on a daily...![Stuart’s Story: “The audiologist had never come across hyperacusis in real life. The staff were wondering why I was flinching at the sound of heels tapping along the shiny floor.”](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Stuart-Colwill-1080x675.jpg)
Stuart’s Story: “The audiologist had never come across hyperacusis in real life. The staff were wondering why I was flinching at the sound of heels tapping along the shiny floor.”
By Stuart Colwill Nine years ago, when I was a teacher, I started to notice that minor sounds (doors opening, pens tapping, keys jangling, birds chirping, coughing, sudden laughter) were becoming distressing, making me recoil and throwing me off track. My students...![Scott’s Hyperacusis Story: I can no longer be a father to my children](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Scott-before-H.jpg)
Scott’s Hyperacusis Story: I can no longer be a father to my children
Growing up, I developed a deep love of music that came from always being surrounded by it. My maternal grandfather always had oldies playing on the radio. My mother was a huge Rod Stewart fan. When my father would pick me up every other weekend, we’d listen to ’70’s...![Dave Vance’s story: I had cancer. I have Hyperacusis. Hyperacusis is worse.](https://hyperacusisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/DaveVancePic-e1667531226437-1064x675.jpg)