AS, Dyslexic, APD, and Dyscalculia??

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CAPD

I have dyscalculia and dyspraxia as well. I don't have auditory sensory problems that I'm aware of, but my hearing is hyper acute, and sometimes it can be overwhelming when there are lots of people around, talking. For example, yesterday on the train, as well as the noise of the engine, I could hear three conversations going on at once, and couldn't shut any of them down. The battery had gone on my ipod, so I had to hear one middle aged man advising his friend to fake an interest in religion in order to get close to a woman, a twenty year old woman cackling with her frenemy on the phone about another frenemy, and someone behind me nose breathing while reading laboriously in French. I could tell you the gist of everything that was said, because my brain has no mute button.

So I pretended to read, and kept my stims under the table, so as not to look too weird.

Oh yeah...forgot to add..pretty severe ADD on top of that..I am amazed by people who are able to follow other people's conversations..everything sounds like a wash of wordless talking sounds on account of the CAPD...but my very ASish mom has a habit of following other peoples conversations at tables at resturaunts...an account of her acute hearing. I have acute hearing...just most words sound like garbled nonsense...I can hear tiny sounds coming from all over the place at all times...

The problem was that I could follow the conversations, which meant there was no room left in my head for me. The French reader was probably studying for an exam, he was reading Les Fleures Du Mal (in an English accent) the Frenemies were talking about some malicious trick they'd played on someone they went to school with, and the middle aged guy ... urgh. I wanted to find his friends love interest and warn her off.

In that kind of situation I can find it very hard to know how to respond if someone comes and speaks to me... My brain just freezes if there's one more thing thrown in the mix. I'm stressed on public transport anyway.

yes- me. i think they come as a pretty common package.
i have i have dyslexia, dyscalclia and have had add- much less so in adulthood.

cant think of ever getting to grips with dyscalclia; its just too impossible. i had several private maths coaches at school- made no difference except bad temper.

i know for dyslexia reading with a sheet of pale yellow film is supposed to be helpful (though- cough- a.s procrastination; i have never tried it.. i mainly read old books, and definatly find the duller paper colour advantageous.
i also find that for writing notes and lists, its somewow easier to read in larger, printed letters, than small handwriting- it gets into my brain instantly, rather than having to slow down and read, if you see what i mean...

i get apd when tired or stressed mainly- its an overload thing. its that faint, vague feeling of being on drugs... its often the prelude to a shutdown or meltdown.
i had the whole 'im partially deaf' thing for years until hearing tests showed better than usual hearing. a.s feels liek a paralel universe where the rules and conventions dont work properly..t processing is way off sometimes.

id be interested to know if there is a term for visual overload- i had to cover my eyes on the top deck of the bus last week, as the crowded street below 'hurt' my eyes and my brain. and i hate the moving conveyer belt at teh end of the checkout in somesupermarkets for the same reason- it 'looks' wrong sometimes to have some things moving.
i just want everything to be still... and silent, and unscented, and dark...