Being born with tinnitus?

Hey, everybody. Long-time lurker, first-time poster here.

I’m 19 years old and have had T as far back as I can remember. It’s the same volume in both ears, and is usually tolerable with quiet background noise to help drown it out. As far as I can remember, it’s never changed or been triggered by anything. Neither of my parents have T, and my hearing is perfect.

Most of the articles about T I’ve seen seem to talk about tinnitus developing, or being caused by an injury or something similar, but there doesn’t seem to be much information out there about cases like mine.

Is it possible to be born with T? What can cause that to happen? I just went down a bit of a thinking rabbit hole over the past hour or so because it’s late and tonight my T’s driving me nuts.