Do you tend to overhear conversations?

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So today my housemate's parents came into the house for a visit. Later that day I told my mom on the phone of how my housemate's mom cleaned the washroom really well. Then, I told her more about my housemate and the whole visiting thing and she asked questions and I answered a few times with "I couldn't help but overhear the conversations my housemate had with his parents."

My mom told my not to eaves drop but its really hard not to when the house is so small and the doors are not soundproof. Then I started to think of the possibility that NTs would have a better ability to concentrate on whatever they were doing in their room and therefore not overhear other people's conversation.

So are aspies better at overhearing conversations because of sensory overload and an inability to concentrate on your own thing?

I dont have this problem...I am legally deaf. Although I wish I could hear other conversations, that would be a way to learn socail skills without interaction. The combo of deaf and AS make for some very whacky conversations. My best friend calls these hopelessly screwed up interpretations...JoAnnerisms...named after me of course

it's not eavesdropping if you're within earshot of someone else's business for some other reason, if you ask me. okay, if you intentionally go and press your ear up against a closed door then i'd lecture you too, but obviously it's difficult to just shut something out if you're right there and it's interesting. sometimes the more you try to shut it out the harder it gets to resist. i think shutting something out comes naturally when whatever you're doing is simply more enthralling to you than something else, and if that's not the case, then you just can't help it. pretty sure this is the case with people in general.

I can hear people talking across the street from my doorstep. Which is funny as much death metal I've blasted and as many loud tools as I've used without adequate hearing protection.

I find it really easy to eavesdrop on others. I do it accidentally at times.

Yeah I find it really easy to overhear conversations from far away and it's annoying so I usually like having my headphones on full blast to block all the other sound out.

I concentrate on something so well my co-workers at the metalshop were srtanding right next to me and they were well underway with a converstion before they noticed I was not listening to them or even knew they were there. When they tapped me on the shoulder I jumped so hard I scared them.

I do however have a really good time listening in on people's conversations. Then I would bring up what I heard them saying to someone else. I would pretend to not to have heard them saying it. some of those idiots thought I was psychic.

When I overheard people who tormented me talking s**t about someone else behind their backs I would not hesitate to tell the person that they were talking about evrything they had said about them. A lot of the people said my smirk when I told them what I heard is what really pissed them off the most then they would start trouble with my tormentor. Its so easy to pull NTs strings if you shut up and listen then tell what you heard to the right people.

I do it all the time. Sometimes it takes me awhile to notice it. I've got really sensitive hearing so I can hear my neighbours talking, or even the house opposite the street to me.

All the time, especially in study lines at school (nobody uses them for studying, and if I'm actually studying, I'm usually able to focus on (but not participate in) a conversation.)

I hear and am easily distracted by conversations around me. For example, in a restaurant I can hear and differentiate all the conversations that are going on around me.

If in class and I hear other kids are having problems with whatever we are doing, I'll try to explain it to them, problem being, they really didn't want me to. Helping nature maybe?

I have a hard time prioritizing what comes in, so often I'm hearing a lot of conversation without being able to focus on what I should be.