THAT DAY

I've long suspected my hearing range is a bit higher than normal. So I tweak my Casio synthesizer to test my hearing range. Infrasound turns out to be easy to test, if depressing--turns out I'm deaf to frequencies below 60 Hz! Adjust the keyboard to ultrasound; the neighbor's dog starts howling, and I get a mild headache, but find I can definitely hear pitches up to 38-40 kHz--well into dog and dolphin range!

Both numbers are way off from what I was always taught (20 Hz up to 15-20 kHz). So what else was I taught that tests out wrong?

THAT NIGHT...

I shiver, curled in bed--need way more blankets. At least my prof won't dare try again to slip that monster fly into my bed! I stopped her by

summoning the Goddess with my high frequency voice. Angels sang pure bat-chorales at my direction. So if my teacher brings her hairy pet again, I

need to remember ultrasound can repel megavermin--whether they're monster flies or equally oversize authorities. Test all for lies.

Ultrasound drives off vermin: true. So my dream teases "Your ultrasound scared off the flies, rats & roaches on our block! But how about that other vector for disease: believing what you're told? Your ears aren't what they told you. What else isn't?"

Not an idle question. I was sick, and had been for over a decade. Doctors told me firmly my headaches (and fevers) were migraine, I wasn't sensitive to any foods, and had no thyroid problem despite craving iodine. But after a decade of dreams like this, I started testing myself. In fact, my headaches & fevers were flare-ups of a stubborn bacterial infection curable only by a long course of antibiotics, I was violently sensitive to gluten, and I needed thyroxine. Oh, and I had a rare mutation causing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, explaining most of my other medical oddities.

Today I'm pretty healthy for a zebra (EDS patient). But one symptom's gotten worse: now I'm really skeptical of experts.

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