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1Oryx2
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 Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:33 am Post subject: Jumbled hearing |
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I noticed the other day that while I was trying to listen to someone talking to me their words came out all jumbled. Like they weren't speaking English anymore or something. It was crazy and I know it's happened on other random occasions.
Does this happen to other people or just me? |
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-JR
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like what poor ol' Charlie Brown went through. 
I've not had this problem, thankfully. Sometimes it'll take me a second or two longer than usual to "get" what someone is trying to say, but def no "jumbling."
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nomad21
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| Yes, happens to me quite often. It leads to me saying "what?" alot, they (my friends) all think I have hearing problems. |
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Ryn
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:09 am Post subject: |
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I've had that happen to me before as well, and with me I think it's CAPD. When I have those moments I'll only ask twice before I just pretend I understand.
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i_Am_andaJoy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: |
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not like jumbled, but all talking is just noise to me unless i am paying attention, and even then it's noise and i have to do a replay to make sense of it. so i have to repeat everything in my head to hear it, so if my attention is distracted i will try to fill in the gaps and sometimes i come up with weird jumbly guesses.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| i_Am_andaJoy wrote: | | not like jumbled, but all talking is just noise to me unless i am paying attention, and even then it's noise and i have to do a replay to make sense of it. so i have to repeat everything in my head to hear it, so if my attention is distracted i will try to fill in the gaps and sometimes i come up with weird jumbly guesses. |
My speech perception is like that. If people speak really clearly, it helps.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:28 am Post subject: |
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| I hate when people talk to me and not get my attention first. Just sound, then it gets translated then I understand. By the time I answer it's like I never heard them. They probably don't understand how the process works |
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:06 am Post subject: |
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Yea, I have that all the time. Makes work fun, cause my boss just spits out random funny things, and the other guys laugh right away.
So I just laugh along then ask later. He gets it.
Has anyone seen the commercial for the Speach/Launguage/Hearing association? Cause that dude asking for directions on campus explains it PERFECTLY.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: |
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I don't really have a problem with 'jumbling' but I can't filter out background noise, like if I'm talking on the phone I can't digest what the other person is saying if someone else is speaking in the room or the TV is on or whatever. Same when I used to go out a lot. In a busy pub the jukebox merges with all the conversations of the others in there and I find it extremely difficult to focus on what is being said by someone just 2ft away. I actually find it easier in these situations to follow conversations going on around me than the one I'm involved in. Same on busy public transport. And I hate walking alongside busy roads beacuse I find the sound of the traffic unusually loud and quite intimidating. I use an iPod a lot now when I'm out , which definitely helps.
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Oh, ye gods, yes! Now, the next guy to ask if I'm deaf, is getting his arm broken!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:27 am Post subject: |
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This happens to me too often! I usually have to keep asking what they were saying because it is like I just could no longer understand them unless they said it again for a few times. It is like I hear them, but my brain is not processing what they are saying into understandable words. Someone would say "Hey man, whats up? Haven't seen you in a while." and I would just hear sounds, and nothing else but just random sounds that I do not understand!
A lot of people get mad at me when I do this, but I can not help it, it is not like I am always comprehending them. When I am doing something I am obsessed with or if I am just doing nothing at all, I can not understand the person at all! It is frustrating when they are trying to say something important to me and I do not understand them!
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| psmaster wrote: | This happens to me too often! I usually have to keep asking what they were saying because it is like I just could no longer understand them unless they said it again for a few times. It is like I hear them, but my brain is not processing what they are saying into understandable words. Someone would say "Hey man, whats up? Haven't seen you in a while." and I would just hear sounds, and nothing else but just random sounds that I do not understand!
A lot of people get mad at me when I do this, but I can not help it, it is not like I am always comprehending them. When I am doing something I am obsessed with or if I am just doing nothing at all, I can not understand the person at all! It is frustrating when they are trying to say something important to me and I do not understand them! |
This is very much like me, someone can tell me something that I hear everyday and my brain doesn't seem to recognise it as words, just sounds. It just doesn't register with me sometimes and I am frequently asked if I am a little bit deaf but I'm not because I have been tested twice and I actually have excellent hearing!
I am wondering if I have something like auditory processing disorder but It could be language processing disorder, does anyone know the difference between the two? The websites I have looked on don't seem to explain it very well. |
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JetLag
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, frequently. When someone is speaking to me, it is very common for me to hear words incorrectly. For instance, I could very easily mistake the words "you must be hard of hearing" to "you must have hid the ceiling," or something similar. |
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d0ds0t
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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That happens to me all the time.. It's like they're doing the Muppet's 'swedish chef' or something.. 
I have to just close my eyes and ears and really concentrate for a while, and then ask them to repeat. Makes me feel a bit dumb actually 
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I find it really awkward when I find myself asking someone to repeat themselves 3 times. Sometimes after that I end up having to act like I understand what they said, or sometimes they say never mind after THEY get fed up of repeating themselves.
But sometimes I don't seem to have a problem.
Normally when there is background noise, it's far more difficult to dunerstand what someone is saying, but everyone else seems t oeb completely fine with the background noise!
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