24 Oct 2004, 4:05 pm
CockneyRebel
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25 Oct 2004, 5:26 am
Cindy wrote:
I never really noticed how people sound, but I have noticed that I don't do well retaining spoken information. I need to "see" it or read it.
At church, I read along in my missal every prayer and scripture. Otherwise it doesn't "register" just hearing it spoken.
I rarely look at people's eyes when they're talking (big surprise
) but I do intently watch their mouths. Now maybe this is just an avoidance mechanism so I don't have to make eye contact but can still appear to be looking at them (years of having MAKE EYE CONTACT drilled into me! 
), or maybe it's because I need to "see" the words as they are being spoken.
I know I don't have a hearing loss - heck, I am always hearing things no one else hears. One night hubby and I were almost asleep and I heard a thump - he heard nothing, of course. I said, Hmmmm, sounds like... one of the cats just jumped in the empty laundry basket downstairs and tipped it off the chair where I had left it. Next morning I came downstairs and the laundry basket was lying on it's side on the floor in front of the chair.
At church, I read along in my missal every prayer and scripture. Otherwise it doesn't "register" just hearing it spoken.
I rarely look at people's eyes when they're talking (big surprise
) but I do intently watch their mouths. Now maybe this is just an avoidance mechanism so I don't have to make eye contact but can still appear to be looking at them (years of having MAKE EYE CONTACT drilled into me! ), or maybe it's because I need to "see" the words as they are being spoken. I know I don't have a hearing loss - heck, I am always hearing things no one else hears. One night hubby and I were almost asleep and I heard a thump - he heard nothing, of course. I said, Hmmmm, sounds like... one of the cats just jumped in the empty laundry basket downstairs and tipped it off the chair where I had left it. Next morning I came downstairs and the laundry basket was lying on it's side on the floor in front of the chair.
That's the same with me. I have to see or read something to understand it. I have trouble remembering verbal imformation.
25 Oct 2004, 9:06 am
07 Jan 2005, 1:13 pm
Civet wrote:
It's often a "delayed processing" for me, I hear the person speaking, but the speech holds no meaning at all. I ask them to repeat themselves, and usually before they are able to, I go "ooh ok," because by that time the message has made it through my brain. It feels almost like it's been "translated" from sounds into meaning, and that that translation process is fairly slow.
I also have a horrendous time hearing people in crowds, or over background noise. Especially in a room full of noisy people, its very difficult for me to concentrate on the person talking to me, and understand their words, while ignoring everyone else's.
I also have a horrendous time hearing people in crowds, or over background noise. Especially in a room full of noisy people, its very difficult for me to concentrate on the person talking to me, and understand their words, while ignoring everyone else's.
Again, this sounds almost exactly like me. (Are you sure we aren't related?
)I also have difficulty hearing voices when they're distorted in some way, such as over the telephone or in a room with a deep echo. And certain accents or speech patterns might as well be a foreign language.
Scoots5012 wrote:
Song lyrics can be problematic for me too. At my gorcrey stocking job, the muzak system use to play several songs where when I'd listen to them, the lyrics did not seem to make sense at all, but I took it as it was since I trusted what my ears were telling me.
Song lyrics are especially bad for me to process, because songs throw the natural cadence of speech completely out the window, often putting the emphasis in completely unexpected places. Interestingly enough, I have an excellent memory for musical pitch and rhythm, and can remember exactly what a song sounds like except for the words...
Cindy wrote:
I rarely look at people's eyes when they're talking (big surprise ) but I do intently watch their mouths.
) but I do intently watch their mouths.I do this as well! I've found that I often read lips as a way of compensating for my poor auditory processing.
Nuttdan wrote:
I always watch TV with closed captions on, and subtitles on DVDs. It helps a lot! I have auditory processing issues, and sometimes it's a lot easier to read it as it's being said.
Me too. Makes things so much easier to follow when I can just read the text instead of straining to decipher what's being said!
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