Anyone else have trouble underatanding by hearing?

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So I was just having a convo with my father and the topic somehow went onto maths questions. I personally dont like maths but i wouldnt say im terrible at it, however when my dad was asking me times table questions I freaked and my mind was completly blank and couldnt answer simple questions like 2×8 or processing instructions, like I can answer the most of hardest equations on paper and if i get the instruction paper I can understand everything just from seeing pictures. Googled everywhere for answers or anything simular and couldnt find anything :/

I'm not so good at responding to oral speech, either.

Mine, for some reason, apparently gets worse to a point I didn't understood what I said.

Although the intended words that came out are correct, what goes in my ears and into my head didn't.


But then verbal thoughts, thinking and learning are my weaknesses to begin with; auditory processing issues or not.

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I call it mindblank. I get that when I try to speak to doctors. It is like I have to back up and talk about something completely different to free up my mind. It is why it took me two years of trying to simply ask my doctors if I could be on the spectrum or not.

It is also why during a conversation or even while writing, I have to "Talk round the world and back" as I can never seem to go straight to the point. (Often I never get there!). I will keep going off at tangents as an automatic self learned mechanism to avoid getting mindblank if that makes any sense?

I always need an extra moment to understand what someone is saying, as if my brain somehow needs to translate (though I do largely think in words). I also for some reason need to repeat everything anyone says in my head in order to comprehend it, which makes it hard to keep up when people are talking. If there are other noises at the same time, it makes things even harder, or even impossible.

Try looking for “auditory processing disorder” and see if that seems familiar, that’s what I have.

I also have a hard time understanding oral information. I always have.

I have trouble too.

I often misinterpretate what I hear and read and have to reshuffle the information in my mind and re ask and re read things like instructions for example .. takes me a long time to often correctly get interpretation right. I usually try think like the person who is asking me to get an initial idea of the context conveyed. I have a bad tendency to put my foot in my mouth and say something dumb or offensive.

Yeah, definitely.
My problems in this area seem to be getting worse, and not only the few seconds delay in understanding.
Sometimes I catch the first part of the sentence and then zone out and miss the rest.
My working memory is so bad I can't remember what was said if I don't write it down immediately.
And having two people talking at once or someone talking while there's background noise makes me feel like my head's going to explode.

Where I have had big problems is when I am coming out of a partial or a full shutdown and I can ask to repeat but no matter how hard I try, even though I have heard what was said word for word, and memorized it, it does not make any sense whatsoever until it enters my long term memory (Which could take around 6 months or even years), and then when I recall it, I fully understand what was said. But then it is too late!
It is wierd because when the words were origionally said I know they are in english and I know them, but only one or two words make any sense? It is as if english is a foreign language to me at the time when it happens like that.

But normal conditions I am fine, though if I lot of information is read out to me I can get difficulties in processing it, because my mind works well in pictures so I have to form pictures in my mind to make sense of it, as if I can't form pictures in my mind, the words pass in through one ear and out of the other and I can't mentally "Catch" them. I can repeat the words word for word, but make no sense of them if I have not had time to think in pictures. But this is when I need to think about what has been said. It is why I am good at factual details where I can see in pictures what the words mean in reality.
I am also a great daydreamer when I was in school because I would need to dream up pictures into my thought patterns to understand what has been said which is probably why it took me longer then other people, but I would not go as far as saying 10 seconds longer... Except when there is a lot of infoemation being read out, so when I form pictures, I need to visually dwell on the pictures, and while I dwell on the pictures I miss everything else which has been said, and then I jump ahead to form the next picture in my mind... So I can miss out bits of information if they come as one long piece without any breaks inbetween it.
The breaks do not need to be long. Most people talking naturally foe breaks long enough for me to process...
What I find difficult to capture is rap music. The words come through too fast. It is a tallent to be able to do it... I can learn and give out like that, but to hear it it will take me a good few takes to get everything which was said. It is like a blur of rhythmic sound. However, some rap with some people I get every word and am fine with it.

neurological testing at the time of diagnosis revealed not only 25th percentile visual processing but 35th percentile audio processing. That is very poor!! !

My hearing itself tests with a wider range than normal and is acute, I can hear sounds just fine, but when I hear words my ability to understand them is not processing correctly. No wonder I have been confused for most of my life.
I was repeatedly scolded for not paying attention, but try as I might I could not understand, and they said it was my fault for not listening! Nobody knew!
Sensory processing disorders big time affected almost everything in "real time" for me, and I never knew or understood how much I struggled until diagnosis.
It was not all my fault!! !!
Now so much of the past makes sense. What a relief!

Yep. I can relate to a lot of what has been said in this thread. Internal delay, reorganize the words, other noises make it so hard, I space out as the words go on, crappy working memory... yeah. Sensory processing issues are definitely problematic in my life.

I "hear" things with a delay. If I need to respond quickly I will ask again --- come to think of it that may just be buying time to hear the first utterance. During my AS evaluation it was noted my verbal reception (hearing) and recollection were well below my mental facilities, e.g. with visual input. My verbal expression (talking) is hit or miss --- I'm a fire hose of practiced information (or relaxed) but come up blank otherwise (or stressed).

My NT husband said something to me this morning. He was about 8 feet away. I was like "How am I supposed to hear you? I am eating cereal and the dishwasher is on behind you." Too much ambient noise. Could an NT have heard him? Before my ASD diagnosis, I was considering that I had poor hearing! Which I knew was odd b/c I can hear things my husband can't. His sneezes in particular are near unbearable, so how come I could hear the words coming out of his mouth?

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