stackyFACTSSome brains process beautiful symphonies as nothing more than aggressive acoustic garbage. Due to severe auditory cortex failures, amusia sufferers literally cannot distinguish pitch variations, turning complex musical compositions into a chaotic clatter of meaningless noise.
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