Audio Processing Disorder?

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The more I browse this forum the more I am convinced that I have Asperger's. I too have been scolded by friends for "not listening", and I cannot understand even the simplest of song lyrics unless I Google them. I used to think Spandau Ballet's True was in Spanish or something, I cannot help but hear "This ain't a sceney" everytime I listen to that FOB song and I mistook the chorus of Snow Patrol's Hands Open as "It's not as easy as willing it all to be right, lotta people ain't hoping it's right, I wanna hear you laugh like you're reeling me in..."... WTF?

I SO have that too. If I'm in the back seat of a car, there is no way on earth I will ever understand what the people in front are saying, except for the moment or 2 they turn around enough for me to see their mouths. I can't read lips but somehow seeing the words form helps sort out the noise a little. The worst was when I was sitting in a lecture and the people in the row behind me started whispering with each other - the lecturer was talking 5x as loud as them but I could not make out a single word he said.

I also find myself leaning close to try to hear what people are saying which gets me in trouble - they tend to think I'm hitting on them!

I'll ask people to speak up or repeat themselves a couple times and then they get irritated with me for doing so - they would never get irritated with a blind person for stumbling over something, but apparently being half-deaf in effect, and asking them to make the tiniest effort to help me understand is an affront. Whatever.

But I do hear - I hear everything. It's just all too much and I can't sort out what I want to hear from the cacophany.

Maybe it is something different, but sometimes when people are talking to me I zone out, and don't hear what they say. This seems to happen often, and is embarrassing when I have to always ask people to repeat what they said because I had a moment when I just didn't pay attention. Is that the same as APD?

I have no trouble listening to sounds or music, but conversation is hard sometimes, especially when it's noisy. Then I just slow down and have to think about each word a person is saying. By the time I understand it, they're already saying something else. If that qualifies as APD I guess I have it.

Wow I had no idea that was a disorder! I always watch people's mouth when they talk. My gf says that it seems that like I need to see where the sound is comming from for me to understand it. Made my heart flutter to read the chat, lol something else to tell my pshych on tuesday.

I speak read and write fluet english and spanish and yet sometimes I cant tell the difference between the two when I hear a song or someone talking and sometimes I look at people and wonder wtf they are saying. I cant take instructions in the room if there is music playing and someone else talking and forget it if there is construction on the road.

Though what pisses my gf off is the fact that this doesnt happen EVERY TIME sometimes we can have a long conversation in the car and its not as hard for me to stick with it. Then two days later she is telling me something and i completely forget it, i cant hear her, the wind down the highway seems way too loud than it was the day before. I cant explain to her way, why it varies she says it would be constant if it was a disorder it wouldnt change, no matter what.

I do not watch television anymore because it enrapts me, the noise combined with the pictures. I have gotten in the habit to say yeah and nod alot as a response to things not knowing wtf, then people get mad when I have no idea what the plan was and ask.

I'm starting to think this is more than just APD. I think it might even be related to the processing issues that come with Asperger's and Autism. I remember not too long ago seeing a tv show, about the science of sports and whatnot, and in one segment, they were testing to see if a particular football player (I don't recall the name) could react faster than a bolt of lightning. Well, the testing proved he could (something like .15 seconds to get off the line), and then they went so far as to explain how he could do that, while the defense took so much longer to respond. He was responding to the auditory stimulus of the ball being hiked, while the others were responding to the visual stimulus of people moving, which (at least in NT's) takes considerably longer to process.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm able to process visual information pretty much instantly, while it takes considerably longer to process auditory input. I believe this is because I tend to think in terms of sensory input (pictures, sounds, sensations, etc) instead of words the way I understand most people do.

my mom has APD,and her sister has too.
if more than one person speak at the same time ,her can not understand anyone,
when she watch tv ,she like change volume to very big,
and when she watch tv,she will not hear other sounds ,even some big sound such as someone has come in home or out home.
i also has APD,when i go to a crown street, i will sensory over i can stand,that will make me very uncomfortable ,i like stay at a quiet place.
if someone speak to me ,i will not do any thing at the sametime