Difficulty hearing human voices- is this a common AS trait?

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I actually stopped doing that.

I was quite good at this (=worked out often) but on rare occasions when I was expected to voice my opinion it just made me look creepy, shy or the other figured I was not interested in what they had said/not interested in them.

There are still moments at which I relapse into this old habit. I smile, try to relocate the centre of attention to something else before I notice people's perplexed stares at why the heck I just started "acting like a complete weirdo".

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I like that. I think I'm going to try asking others to do this if an occasion allows it.

It just occurred to me that I do that for other people on the phone already. Hah. Many utterly fail at catching what I say when I answer the phone unless I wait about 2-3 seconds before I greet them and inform them about who they're talking to.

My family doesn't do this very much at all.

Well I hear people asking eachother to repeat what they have said because they didn't catch what they said the first time.

God, I have horrible auditory processing disorder, but my (also AS) boyfriend has amazing auditory processing skills!

I think that, like many traits, auditory processing with autism is about extremes. It seems we're either constantly saying "what?!" or we're naming all the instruments in an orchestra recording

It really sucks though, because people don't seem to believe me that I can't hear them. Or sometimes they just don't understand why I can't hear. If someone speaks loudly and clearly, with full enunciation, I can understand no problem. One of my friends if very confident and outspoken, and I never mishear her. But my boyfriend mumbles almost everything he says (or at least doesn't enunciate what so ever) ad it's like he's speaking a different language!