A Simple Thing Derails Me!

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OK, I'm once again a student after taking a 13-year hiatus. Back then, I managed to graduate with a B.A. This time around, I want an A.S.

But I've rediscovered something that teachers do as a time-saving tactic that manages to completely scramble my addled brain with a stick! EVERY. TIME. I'm not even sure why.

Picture this: the teacher's up at the lectern, giving some sort of demonstration. And then, to save time, they say: "OK, I'm not going to type all of the stuff from the book, it would take too long. I'm just going to fill this bit in with 'BLAH BLAH TEXT BLAH BLAH TEXT TEXT (or whatever filler they feel like using)'.

Whenever a teacher does this, I totally lose my ability to follow along, and get derailed or confused. Does anyone else have this problem? I'm so humiliated when it happens, because it doesn't seem like anyone else in class has a distraction problem with it. Is it an Aspie thing? Or just a hostile_fossil thing?

Bumped. Nobody else gets this?

Maybe I have dry rot of the brain, or something. Flibbedygibbet!

I don't understand what you're saying they do. You mean rather than teaching the material they tell you to read the book?

No, it's more like this, here's an example:

Let's say the class subject is "How to do a Powerpoint Presentation". Well, the instructor shows the class how to sign into Powerpoint, as well as other helpful commands...then, in the middle of making a slide, he suddenly says, "Stuff should go in here. I don't feel like typing, so pretend there's an actual slide being made." Then, he copy/pastes "WORDSWORDSWORDS" or "BLAHBLAHBLAH" over and over to make filler for the screen.

Yeah I have a hard time with that too.