Tequila wrote:
I can't hear at all well in crowded, noisy places. Often when I'm in the pub and someone's talking to me, I don't seem to have a lot of clue about what they're saying. If someone shouts for me, I don't hear them until someone prods me into action. If there's noise, I can hear very little but that noise which is why, when I want to talk while the TV is on, I have to ask the person to turn it down so I can hear them properly. Which is more than a bit irritating for the other people watching, as you might imagine.
The closest thing I could compare it to is this: go in a crowded place (like a pub), set a tape recorder running and then start talking normally. When you get to a quieter place, listen to that recording. You'd be surprised. Whilst most normal might be about to filter it out, I can't. I just can't.

^I struggle with noisy places as well. The conversations begin to "smear" together and I fail to focus on just one. Social interaction is exhausting in itself. Add a noisy layer on top of that, and it is a complete disaster for me.
One fact about me:
My mother found out that I was hyperlexic when I was age 2-- when she caught me reading her romance novels aloud. I was a spelling and vocabulary whiz throughout my childhood, but my reading comprehension and listening skills were never THAT exceptional.
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