Comment by torginus
5 months ago
I have another, much simpler guess - these headphones are dirty, and people are constantly wearing them, and cleaning them is pretty hard without damaging something - so most people just don't.
This leads them to be an ideal breeding ground of bacteria, and a constant source of ear infections. I'd say that's something that can pretty directly lead to hearing loss.
In APD the hearing is functional, it’s the processing in the brain that is lacking. Your theory would apply to hearing loss, as you say, but not APD which the article is about.