Can you understand what people are saying?

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Yep, I have the same problem understanding spoken word, as everyone else, here----and, if that wasn't enough fun, I also have CAPD, which means I can't understand a WORD someone is saying if they speak too quickly, or too loudly----it's as much fun as a barrel full of monkeys, I tell ya!! ! LOL

As for the written word: I'm dyslexic; so, often I have to read things a couple of times. Also, with written word, there's no way, sometimes, to tell inflection----which could change the meaning. That's why I use alot of caps and italics and run-on sentences because that is the way I would say it, in person.

Dude....yes! And I think that's why I'm more able to look people in the eye. I stare at their face to read their lips and try not to make it any more awkward than it is. And omg do not yell! It hurts my ears

Yes, and very often I need to make people repeat what they just said (unless I'm really only paying attention to them and only focusing on them) so that I can understand, and the meaner people often answer back "are you f...ing deaf?"
But the worst part is in the middle of a crowded place where tons of people are all talking at the same time, then even when I concentrate It's hell to understand what a person is saying and I need to make them repeat 2 or 3 times, I get the words, I get what they said but I need them to repeat so that I can analyse what they just said.

People need to catch my attention first before they start speaking or I ask what so they could repeat themselves. They either do or say never mind. I also need people to talk louder when there is noise and other sounds.

Written words aren't a problem for me, but I can have a really tough time with spoken words sometimes. It's almost like there's a slight delay between what you are saying and what I'm understanding. Also, if you give me too much verbal information at once it's like there is a buffer in my memory that will fill up and start being overwritten, causing me to miss things. I often have to ask people to repeat themselves just to give my brain a little bit of extra time to process what they said.

I definitely relate to LizardWizard's comment. I have excellent hearing, but something about speech just gets jumbled up to a point where the first few words someone says to me may seem like they are speaking a foreign language.

most of the time it's other people that cannot understand my own spoken word, given my quietness, monotone and fuzzy voice. i usually have to be asked twice for clarification...

I'm good one one on in a quite environemnt. Every other sound happening in the area adds a layer of difficulty. Another voice happening at the same time and I'm really challanged. Or a room with bad echo.

My boss's boss is Scottish with a strong accent. So when we have a meeting in the conference room (it's a large room with lots of echo). If I concentrate I can catch about every 6th word he says. When I give up and just pretend to listen I accidently catch every 10th word. A great waste of time on my part, and they refuse to put anything in writting. So I still have no idea what was said for 3 hours in the room.

I shift between the two. Either I'm good at one or the other. Dyslexia may also interfere.

Sometimes when a stranger speaks to me when I'm not expecting it, I don't hear what they said so I have to ask them to repeat. A lot of times I come off as stupid, and I feel embarrassed. I was thinking of passing off as deaf, but I'm not sure how to alert the public about that. And no I am not alerting the world that I'm Asperger's, because I look far too ''normal'' and people will just think that I want their sympathetic attention or something. But I AM hard of hearing anyway, so it would make more sense to get some sort of badge or band or whatever to alert people that I may not respond very quickly to certain sounds because I don't hear. I'm not deaf enough to need a hearing aid, but I think I will need one before I'm 40.