Mentally replaying speech to understand it

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Anyone here is repeating own words after said? I do that even now sometimes, my lips move. When I was a child I was questioned why I do that.

Sometimes I repeat a question just to be sure I understand it. I'm certainly a bit delayed to understand what was told and have problem when I supposed to listen to someone around me.

As I said elsewhere, I have congenital auditory nerve damage causing my right ear to be totally deaf, and my left ear to be a noisy channel.

When someone says something, I experience two phases of processing:

1. The raw noise I hear. They may say "Did you go to the market?" and I will hear "Ninja Migo Spock fit."

Consciously, I try to ask myself it what I think I heard makes sense, and what it may be they really said. My reflexive response is "what?"

2. While I'm trying to consciously make sense of it, my subconscious is going much faster and interpolating what they actually said. Typically, by the time I have finished asking "what?" I will have an accurate conscious representation of what was actually said. By the time they start repeating it, I've already processed what they said the first time.

This has always fascinated me, and taught me many lessons about cognitive neuroscience.