Do you always hear when someone talks to you?

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I have this when I'm under stress. I can understand language in movies just fine, and also have no problem understanding people in 1:1 situations like in a doctor's office unless I'm terribly nervous. It usually happens in noisy environments like a supermarket, when the cashier tells me the amount of money owed or tries to make some smalltalk. Sometimes I understand half of a sentence and just guess the rest.

I'm the same way, especially if I'm involved in a project :\. I can hear, and be distracted by, the computers power supply; but I can't hear my partner when she's sitting right next to me. This is worst when I"m coding, or involved in something...but it can be just while watching television or reading a book as well.

When I'm having a really bad day with my schizophrenia I've been known to just stare at things, and be totally unresponsive for sometimes hours :\ It's embarrassing afterwards, that's for sure as I never know when it's going to happen, or what people thought of me when it was happening...or really even that it did. It's like my ears totally shut off to the outside world for spells of time every now and then.

Hey, at least it's not all the time :\