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Civet
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24 Oct 2004, 4:05 pm

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I rarely look at people's eyes when they're talking (big surprise ) but I do intently watch their mouths.


I do that as well.

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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.


I do this sometimes, too. Especially when there are people with low voices, or the volume is up too high or too low, I have a hard time understanding them. The mashed potatos in mouth analogy is a perfect description.

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It bugs me sometimes when I'm watching anime and the subtitles and spoken dialogue differ a lot. The dialogue is usally Americanized, but the subtitles are more basic, less styled English.


That's so that it sounds more fluid, and also because the voice actors try to match their dialogue with the mouth movements on the screen. Sometimes, things get translated differently to fit things in so they "look right." I, too, prefer subtitles over dubs.



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25 Oct 2004, 5:26 am

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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 :roll:) 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! 8O), 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.



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25 Oct 2004, 9:06 am

Yeah I find its not always easy to understand what people are saying and usually have to ask for clarification repeatedly in attempts to process verbally-presented information. I am a very visually learner, I love reading so if it can be presented in a format that is with pictures and text I usually retain a higher level of information than without. I am also more capable of processing information that I can actually learn hands-on as well. That is the main reason in school that I loved courses that could either provide hands-on or a lot of reading or use of visual supports.



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07 Jan 2005, 1:13 pm

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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.

Again, this sounds almost exactly like me. (Are you sure we aren't related? :D)

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.

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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...

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I rarely look at people's eyes when they're talking (big surprise :roll:) 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.

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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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07 Jan 2005, 1:33 pm

I usually have difficulty focusing on the begining and end of whatever someone is saying to me, whilst I tend to hear the middle part of their sentence clearly. Sometimes I'll hear what is being said to me but it won't make any sense at all- by the time I've heard it a couple of times it starts to make sense.

I'll also feel like people are mumbling at me sometimes even though they assure me they weren't .

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08 Jan 2005, 9:44 am

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Again, this sounds almost exactly like me. (Are you sure we aren't related? )


Heheh, I was beginning to wonder the same thing.

As for the watching people's mouths move, I do that as well. I'm not sure if I am reading lips, though, as I've never tried it. I think just having the visual go with the auditory helps me out. Plus, mouths are interesting to watch move.