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9:24am May 31, 2014
Anonymous asked: When someone talks to me, I can hear that they're saying something, but it's basically a foreign language the first time they say it. Why is that?

gingerautie:

Assuming you’re autistic, It’s auditory processing disorder. Which is a brain problem with processing sounds, usually speech.

Auditory processing disorder is I think nearly universal (in hugely varying degrees of severity) among autistic people.

There’s fuck all you can do about it, but it’s sometimes really useful to mention as a “sorry, could you say that again, I am listening, I  just have this disorder” thing without having to go through the “no, I’m not rainman, yes I have feelings, …” shit of a full autism disclosure. You can just go “yeah, sorry, I have auditory processing disorder, it makes it a bit difficult for me to understand/ process speech sometimes, could you say that again?”

I have this, really noticeably. Like, I can tell someone’s speaking english, I can tell what their accent is, but it just sounds like “blagarble cabbage ga do blah”. Sometimes I can figure out what it was later, it’ll just suddenly click, and sometimes I’ll get someone to repeat something like 5 times and I’ll still have no idea what they were trying to say unless they write it down.

It’s either auditory processing disorder or a language processing disorder.  They can both have the same result but come from totally different things.  I have both.

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    Oh man I relate to the sudden click. Most of the time what I hear is gibberish. It could be anything at all, and there’s...
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    It’s either auditory processing disorder or a language processing disorder. They can both have the same result but come...
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    I didn’t know what this was until recently. For a long time I thought my hearing sucked, even though my ears are quite...
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    Since when is apd universal among autistic people what
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