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People with autism can have a sensitivity to texture, brightness, and sound.
Cicadas can be especially irritating for people on the autism spectrum who have hearing sensitivity.
People with tinnitus may also struggle with cicada song .
Researchers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis this year crowdsourced cicadas' noise levels as high as 86 decibels.
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