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IdahoAspie
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17 Feb 2008, 4:32 am

Zamone wrote:
I've done that all my life, and been aware of it. It's why my spelling is horrible: I don't pick up on some sounds in the words. As well as that, I'm horrible at picking up lyrics in songs, and using phrases I will often get a subtle word wrong, then when I see it in writing years later I'll pick up on that fact.

I remember Mum used to test me on diferent words and then make me write them down how I had heard them.


Your mom was smart to do that. I do that too. I cannot learn a foreign language because I cannot hear the sounds. I also have a hard time hearing on the phone if I am unaware of what they are saying. Someone times people sound like the teacher for Charlie Brown.



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17 Feb 2008, 4:20 pm

IdahoAspie wrote:
Zamone wrote:
I've done that all my life, and been aware of it. It's why my spelling is horrible: I don't pick up on some sounds in the words. As well as that, I'm horrible at picking up lyrics in songs, and using phrases I will often get a subtle word wrong, then when I see it in writing years later I'll pick up on that fact.

I remember Mum used to test me on diferent words and then make me write them down how I had heard them.


Your mom was smart to do that. I do that too. I cannot learn a foreign language because I cannot hear the sounds. I also have a hard time hearing on the phone if I am unaware of what they are saying. Someone times people sound like the teacher for Charlie Brown.
I can learn a foreign language, things just have to be said slowly. So whenever we had a listening test or anything I would be all: "What? I didn't hear that." and do horribly. Writing/reading and speaking I was fine with.



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18 Feb 2008, 12:45 am

IdahoAspie wrote:
Someone times people sound like the teacher for Charlie Brown.


:lol: exactly! That happens to me when I am in a crowded room and talking to a group of people. I thought at one point that I was losing my hearing.

My son was just tested for an auditory processing problem, and it was sooo interesting all the things that the therapist said about the way that he hears and feels sounds. He does not filter them, plus he hears things at volumes that most people cannot hear, plus his brain tells him that he is hearing in the opposite ear at certain volumes, and also that the sound gets processed in his brain later than the vibrations that he feels in his bone, so the mismatch confuses him.