Visual Processing

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When I was in high school I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder, so a lot of the time when I hear things, I think people are saying something that sounds similar, but something that's a completely different word. Lately, I've noticed that I also frequently do the same thing with reading. I don't know why, but I see a word and think it's another, similar looking word. For instance, someone wrote something about winter when I thought it said water. Needless to say, it made what they were talking about very confusing until I re-read it a couple of times. Is it just my vision, or is this a similar disorder to my APD? I have yet to receive a formal diagnosis of AS(though I'm pretty positive I have it)so I'm unsure as to all of the vision issues that may accompany it. Please bear with me if I'm sounding entirely unintelligent on the matter...

I get that because of my ADHD. You know how people can misspell something on the computer? Well I can do that by long hand...or short hand..er with a pen and paper.

I read things backwards and jumbled, skip words, replace words for something similar and sometimes my brain doesn't even understand what I'm reading.
It's common in dyslexia but I think it's because of my ADHD because I don't tend to do it on medication.

I am subject to "Creative hearing" rather badly. Typically it happens when someone blurts something at me "out of the blue." It takes my mind a few moments to shift gears to verbal, so I get only a vague impression of what they said.

Lost a couple new "friends" over that incident, was told I was a horrible person who was screwing with people to give them a bad trip and scar them for life. It sucked.

To counter this, in general practice, I usually tell people "I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, was thinking about something else" instead of repeating weird thing I hear people say. Better still is to let people know they should say my name first and wait for me to respond before asking me questions or starting a conversation.

I'm constantly saying things like, "I thought that said _____!" after reading something, so apparently I do this frequently too.