There is a playground/swimming pool near where I live and every day this summer there has been some 10-20 kids screaming their lungs out for basically the entire day, we are talking 10+ hours of children screaming like they are being torn apart by wild dogs, it’s that shrill screeching that only kids can pull off, they’re doing it right next to each other and all I can wonder is how they all don’t have severe hearing damage.
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Children do not stay at a park for 10 hours. You are hearing many different children over the course of 10 hours, who are of course, not individually screaming ALL the time, nor are they screaming in the ears of the same children over and over.
Children are in fact MORE susceptible to hearing damage than are adults, but it’s a cumulative effect too. A child of 6 or 7 simply hasn’t been exposed to enough damaging volume over time to sustain hearing loss the way an adult might, particularly an adult who works in a noise-concentrated industry.
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