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coyote
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 Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject: Difficulty understanding long sentences |
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It is municipal election soon here. Yesterday, one of the candidate showed up at home. I opened the door and he starts telling me his name, his title, his role in this election etc... I think he gave me something like 10 informations in one sentence. I could not remember anything he said. All the informations went in and jammed and they all became just a blur in my head. Since i just stood there saying nothing, he continued with more info. It was too much.
This little incident reminds me i can't follow if a sentence is too long. I need time to process every bit of info so i cannot follow a conversation in real time.
Do you have the same kind of problem ? |
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los003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| This happens to me alot. I find myself becoming annoyed and stopping the person just to make sure i got what they said.... This is not always possible, and alot of the time it does begin to sound like a blur. I find myself going huh? and getting frustrated because the person must keeps throwing info my way!! |
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larsenjw92286
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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I have difficulty understanding some long sentences, but not if I have an interest in the subject matter.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| larsenjw92286 wrote: | | I have difficulty understanding some long sentences, but not if I have an interest in the subject matter. |
ditto
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Uhh...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| This mostly happens to me when I'm reading textbooks - they'll have sentences that are like 35 or 40 words long that run on, go through like 3 or 4 commas, and are so sprawled that I can read them 3 or 4 times and realize I have no idea what the heck I just read. At least when a book is a little better written I don't have too many problems but still, I have more than enough classes where I take notes and that's pretty much it. |
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Is that appropriate or what?
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Reminds me of the breakdown in the infamous Picard song. (Trekkies should know what I'm talking about) It goes like this:
Just kept talking in one incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had the chance to interrupt; it was really quite hypnotic. |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:54 pm Post subject: ... |
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I do not always process everything I hear. Sometimes it takes a couple seconds until I replay it in my head and THEN I listen (this is not good when I agree to something and then replay the question that I've just agreed to and have to correct myself by admiting that I wasn't listening and changing my answer  ). Or sometimes I just don't get it at all.
This occurs more often when I am not in a talking mood (or listening mood I should say) or when I am distracted and really have little interest in what the other person is saying. So while I'm pretending to listen, nodding, uh-huhing and all, I'm thinking of something else entirely.
I also have troubles listening to more than one thing at a time. I notice I miss things people say to me if I am watching television and then I only can make out that they said something to me and I must ask them to repeat it once my attention has shifted back to them. I think this is a bit of a hyperfocus/auditory processing problem.
One thing at a time, please.
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My chemistry teacher tends to talk in long sentences and very quickly, so I've gotten used to him doing it. I can now normally pick up on what he's trying to tell us, so that's a good thing. With other people (that I'm not used to), it takes a while and sometimes I have to ask them to repeat what they've just said. 
I also have a hard time when talking to people while there's a chaotic background noise, but I think that's pretty normal.
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| When I'm at work, I usually have to ask my supervisor/boss to repeat instructions if she gives me more than three seperate things to do. I probably seem extremely dense by doing this but it's better than seeming lazy. She's usually pretty good though good about giving me about three tasks at a time, then having me come back for more (she has the luxury of being able to do that, though I don't know if she just does it for me or she actually does it for everyone). |
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| Yeah, I'm like Sophist. I don't hear what they say the first time around, either. Its just noise. |
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