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JWRed
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 Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: Do you have bad hearing? |
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| Mine sucks. I have a feeling it is AS related. |
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mysterious_misfit
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: |
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| I have very good hearing, but I frequently ask people to repeat themselves. It's because of central auditory processing disorder. I can't mentally process speech or language very easily. |
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_BRI_
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:26 am Post subject: |
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| I have a very good hearing... extremely sensitive. One question: Do you have great visual skills and visual memory? Do you think in pictures? |
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Reodor_Felgen
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: |
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I don't have a bad hearing, but I'm frequently distracted by background noises while talking to other people.
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DivaD
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thursday! 
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BigT
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose I am the same as mysterious_misfit, most of the time I can hear people clearly but still immediately ask them to repeat themselves. It's one of the things I tell myself to stop doing but I can't really. |
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Danielismyname
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| It depends. In some ways, my hearing isn't the greatest due to firing small arms in enclosed spaces without hearing protection (I have ears of a sixty/seventy years old, rather than twenties). Other cases, I can hear wrist watches tick and tock from far away, where my mother can't. |
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KingdomOfRats
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am have great hearing [hearing tests showed it to be above what a hospitals computer software could go up to] but problem is with being unable to take anything in when more than one form of input is going on,gets overloaded quickly.
if have 'bad hearing' get appointment with a audiologist,a developmental audiologist would be better if own hearing problems are not traditional deafness/hearing impairment-regular audiologists can be useless for autist hearing,am was forced to see a 'normal' one a few years ago as home staff didnt believe it existed saying they couldnt hear the things am could,and the audiologist had a go at am for wasting an appointment that could have been used by someone with a 'real hearing impairment'.
is worth going for a test to see what hearing strengths and weaknesses are.
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2ukenkerl
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| BigT wrote: | | I suppose I am the same as mysterious_misfit, most of the time I can hear people clearly but still immediately ask them to repeat themselves. It's one of the things I tell myself to stop doing but I can't really. |
Same HERE! USUALLY my brain keeps processing it, and I often know the answer before I have half my question out. |
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nettiespaghetti
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| mysterious_misfit wrote: | | I have very good hearing, but I frequently ask people to repeat themselves. It's because of central auditory processing disorder. I can't mentally process speech or language very easily. |
Oh wow I do that really bad. Interesting how several others do that too  I'm always worried people will think I'm not the brightest in the world, and can't comprehend things 
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j2xj2x
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I can't very easily filter out background noise, and I have trouble with picking up on what people are saying, but there is nothing wrong with my hearing, and if someone whispers my name in the next room I will walk in and tell the person to stop talking about me. They wouldn't expect themselves to be heard, and I wouldn't have even heard what they would have been saying about me, I would have just picked up on the fact that I was the subject. It's fairly easy to train yourself to become familiar with certain words so that even if there is not much clarity, when spoken, you can still guess what has been said. When it comes to registering the sound of my name it is understandable that I am able to pick up on it because I am used to hearing my name.
Sometimes I do mistake one word for another word, and I was useless in the French listening tests. |
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Spokane_Girl
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: Do you have bad hearing? |
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| JWRed wrote: | | Mine sucks. I have a feeling it is AS related. |
It's not.
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tenalpgnorw
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I am in the same boat with some of the other posters. I do have bad hearing in one ear, due to a whole lot of childhood ear infections. However, there are also some verbal processing things.
Like my wife will come and say to me very clearly, "A fulpa Mike is the road tiki?
I will answer, "Who is Mike and what is a road tiki?"
She'll say, "Now does that make sense? I asked if you have found my gold toe ring!"
I'll say, "That's not what I heard."
This is the important point. I will not be trying to be witty or sarcastic. I literally hear what I hear.
It doesn't naturally occur to me to try and make rational sense out of verbal communication.
Along the same lines, I can almost NEVER hear words when I listen to music, not only with like hard rock, but even slow simple ballads. I prefer instrumental music because most vocals just bother me. |
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j2xj2x
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| Quote: | | Like my wife will come and say to me very clearly, "A fulpa Mike is the road tiki? |
Would she actually have said that, or is that what you would have heard? If she actually did say that, I am unfamiliar with it. I would interpret it the same way as you did... I have no idea how that has anything to do with gold toe rings... is my vocabulary lacking... you were joking weren't you? or maybe she was joking. |
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zen_mistress
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I dont have bad hearing, but I get ringing ears after going into bars so I plug my ears before going out to a noisy place. I remember as a child having difficulty making out what people were saying sometimes, it was like conversation was too fast for my ears.
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