Do your ears work?

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Auditory processing is my weakest processing mode, by far.

I often have great difficulty maintaining my concentration when someone is speaking to/with me, especially social situations.

How about you?

Last edited by Blindspot149 on 23 Oct 2009, 12:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I've had a long history of ear problems, ear infections, collapsed eardrums requiring tubes, etc.. Although these are common in children, I've had these problems through my 20s, and I still have to pop my eardrums every so often.

Oftentimes it takes me longer to process something that is spoken to me, and I'm pretty crappy at making out the words in songs.

I have a hard time disassociating different sounds when many are present. This is especially true when in a social situation where several conversations are overlapping. When music is being played this problem becomes impossible to deal with. I have noticed in settings such as night clubs people have used loud music as a tool to get closer to the opposite gender and initiate sexual interest. Perhaps the illogical loudness of the music is appreciated for that fact alone.

My ears work just dandy, though one works a little better than the other.

The auditory processing, however...

My ears work too well, I have earplugs for sleeping because I can hear talking across my house. The problem is, I have issues with conversations. My mind has difficulty distinguishing spoken words. My coworkers say I am deaf because I am constantly asking them to repeat what they said, but I could hear them talking, just couldn't make it out.

A small part of Sensory Integration disorder is that sounds that are just loud for most are painfully loud for me. Yet, while my hearing is excellent, I'd just as soon prefer silence, especially from talking. Listening to music or night sounds is quite pleasurable though. Just not speaking and talking as much. Definitely in agreement with "Just send me an email" option

Mine are ok most of the time except when there is background noise. I have problems filtering.

My ears work overtime, unfortunately. Perhaps worst of all is the constant din in even a medium-sized city from all the cars, TV sets, etc. Can't everybody hear that god-aweful never-ending droning? It grates on my nerves big time and is one of the reasons I moved to the hills. Silence is truly sublime.

I'm all over the map on sound.

I hate loud sound

I enjoy actively listening to vocal music (show tunes, opera, etc.), but I cannot have it on if I am doing something else as it will distract me.

I love to have instrumental music on at my workstation. (I usually tune into Baroque music, since there is less likely to be vocal music in it).

The auditory modality is one of only five senses where I have integration issues. CAPD makes it difficult to discern speech when there is any type of background noise. I have a more general auditory agnosia, where certain sounds simply don't register in the brain. Speech is usually buffered, so I don't actually process what I am hearing for several seconds, even while receiving further speech (the resulting delayed reactions catch people off guard). Other sounds, particularly loud or shrill sounds, register amplified, occasionally triggering full-on meltdowns. Fire alarms are the worst - I totally understand RainMan's reaction to them.

Any background noise, even music, seriously impedes concentration. I do enjoy music, but can only listen to it when resting or doing some type of repetitive motion activity, such as walking.

Uhh ...yes?

Get out of my head :p That's exactly what I go through! I find that when I'm tired or if I'm unfocused that I'll miss more things in the conversation

I have a difficulty time talking to someone in a noisy room and they refuse to speak up. Other people don't seem to have that difficulty because I don't see them going near the person they are talking to or holding their ears out to hear or having to star at their mouths. This was at my old job I quit just this month.

Does this happen to everyone? When I am walking and someone says something to me, I always have to go "what?" Sometimes I can hear what they said but lot of times I go "what?" so they can repeat themselves again.

It's also difficult to hear when I am doing something like doing the dishes and my husband needs to shout or I need to stop what I am doing to hear him. He also has the same problem I have but his is worse than mine. He couldn't hear me in the park when we met for the first time in real life because of the freeway across the river so I had to talk louder but I could hear him well because the sound was away from me. He also can't hear me in the shower so I have to come in the bathroom if I want to ask him something. I can't hear him either unless he also comes in or shouts.

Are you talking about that high pitch sounds those older TVs make? Yeah those are annoying sometimes and don't lot of people hear them too? Some can, some can't. I am not sure what you mean by cars and what sound s ur talking about? I do find those squeaky breaks annoying. I can hear a faint sound of them too. I am not sure if anyone else can but I know they can hear those breaks too when they need to be replaced or when they are hot. My ears are super sensitive to certain high pitch sounds so they like stand out more to me.

Minor auditory processing issues. Things start to get fuzzy around "have a phone conversation" and completely conk out by "listening to somebody in a crowded room". It's the comprehension that vanishes, btw, not the actual hearing acuity. I can hear just fine (apparently better than most) but distinguishing and interpreting sounds can get tricky.

As with everyone else with AD/AS, I have auditory processing disorder, but this doesn't mean my ears don't work, I just have a delay in processing speech (which when little, was a long time, which is why people thought I, and many other people with an ASD are/were deaf).

My ears are perfectly fine with processing environmental noises, barring speech.

I have tinnitus due to firing a pistol indoors without hearing protection twice (.45ACP from a 1911), but it didn't seem to cause noticeable hearing loss on the latest hearing test I had (several years after the incident).

My reference to ears that 'don't work' is asking about processing.

I borrowed the expression from someone who used the analogy to describe what happens to some people when the get drunk.

Mechanically my ears are fine.

It's just sometimes hard to focus on other people's dialogue.

Listening is always my last choice for learning mode if I need to learn or study something.