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Can I talk about Auditory Processing Disorder for a sec? I eventually wanna do a https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/ ">https://invisibleup.com/articles/... esque piece about this, but I wanna at least blab on Twitter about it first. Because I& #39;m fairly confident I have it, and it& #39;s a PAIN to deal with.
So APD is a disorder that makes it difficult to process speech. For me, I find things like lectures, conversations, voice chats, television, etc. very hard to follow for long periods of time. I& #39;m okay at first, but I get very fatigued very quickly and it all turns into mush.
Song lyrics are another thing I struggle a lot with. Most times I don& #39;t even recognise lyrics beyond blatant choruses. I recognize that there is speech, I can recognize individual words, but not *meaning*. It often sounds a lot like this to me: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8">https://youtube.com/watch...
I& #39;m making this thread because I& #39;ve noticed that I& #39;ve had 90% of my interpersonal interaction lately over text chats. At most I& #39;d have about 30 minutes to an hour per day I needed to listen to others. Now I& #39;m in a position where that& #39;s gone up, and it& #39;s pretty rough adjusting.
I got out of a voice chat with friends about an hour ago and I absolutely noticed myself going from being totally okay to bring completely and totally fed up with trying to listen to others over the span of like two hours. I could recognize words, but barely meaning by the end.
But I CAN watch professionally produced movies (about two hours), and I CAN watch YouTube videos with proper subtitles for longer periods. And even after I can& #39;t process audio, I can go back to text and chat things up totally fine.
I& #39;ve also been doing some research, and people with APD often find it much easier to use ASL or other sign languages *if they know it*. It& #39;s *auditory* processing disorder; text and ASL are visual. I kinda tried to learn ASL myself, but I couldn& #39;t self-study that effectively.
So, it would be really nice if we taught people sign language in schools? It& #39;s nice even for the hearies, because sometimes you just can& #39;t talk. And it would be nice if more people knew about auditory processing disorder, and if accomodations could be made for people with it.
I& #39;m at a weird spot where I& #39;m definitely not deaf or HoH, and I can do most daily things just fine, but I can& #39;t do things like college lectures or long meetings without completely losing track and tuning out. And nobody& #39;s writing any of this up, you gotta take notes!
And it& #39;s not super great for career networking either. I cannot do cocktail parties, I cannot do job fairs, I cannot do professional conferences, I cannot go to the pub... Too many people talking, too much information to process, too much noise.
If I could just turn off my hearing on demand and just have captions for everything, that would be fantastic. For instance, I struggle with directions given orally, but I can usually read a list once and get a very clear picture.
I guess I& #39;ll end this thread with a Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi...
