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OJani
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23 May 2011, 8:54 am

It happens to me sometimes, mainly after periods in which I engage myself without saying, reading, or listening to anything on my language. Someone tells me something, I understand the words (or I assume I do), but miss totally their meaning. In those cases I kindly ask back to repeat... When there is some noise that I can't tune out, I can hardly understand people conversing in my presence, and I only have a very little hearing impairment, I'm not sure if it would qualify as one at all.


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23 May 2011, 10:51 am

I fail so bad at my own language, it's embarrassing and not funny anymore U=_= I can barely get through a few paragraphs without getting a headache and I get words mangled all the time. I've never lived abroad, so what gives? I speak english way better.



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23 May 2011, 12:27 pm

Sometimes it takes me a few tries before I understand what someone is saying to me. At one point I thought I was hard of hearing, but that didn't seem to be the problem... my hearing is fine. It's my comprehension that is lacking, sometimes.


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23 May 2011, 1:01 pm

Verdandi wrote:
I started a thread about something like this the other day.

Sometimes people speak to me and all I hear is noise.


Same here. I think it's a temporary sensory scramble.



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23 May 2011, 8:09 pm

I can't claim to have speech/language problems to that degree, but I'm surprised that it's something a lot of people have too.



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23 May 2011, 8:42 pm

If a lot of sensory stuff is going around I am effectively deaf because I have no clue what people are saying. I sometimes can end up tuning in and being ok, as long as I don't have to respond to anything, but it takes time. If it is one continuous sound like a game on TV I can block it out pretty well when talking to one person, but in a group I have a really hard time doing it.