Are Hearing problems common with Asperger's?

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I'm mostly deaf in my right ear. I love when people are standing to my left because then I can actually HEAR them a lot better. My mum won't let me get a hearing aid though because she thinks it won't help the problem because she thinks I just have a sensory problem, but would a sensory problem REALLY effect how I hear in just 1 ear?

Have you had it tested?

Multiple tests should prove whether it's sensory or not.

If it's real hearing loss it should be consistent, I sometimes shut down without warning for about 5 seconds and may not be able to hear what people are saying or even loud noises but it's totally dependent on the environment, so it's not hearing loss.

It was thought that I had some hearing loss, but I went and got tested and it seems that I simply have a central auditory processing disorder. Though, I do seem to hear much better out of my right ear than my left. It's probably worth getting it checked out.

I've always had trouble with my ears and my sinuses. I think ear infections are common in small children, but most grow out of it, whereas I didn't.

I had lots of ear infections as a kid, and in my teens developed a habit for popping my ears by plugging my nose and blowing. I am pretty sure that is how I ended up with Tinnitus (a constant ringing in the ears)... Its really a pain for me because I am most sensitive to sensory overload based on sound.

However, I don't believe that my hearing is significantly impaired. Last hearing test I took I did fine, and I used to do my own audio engineering (just wasn't good with noise reduction :p)

Highly doubt it has anything to do with your Asperger.

oh yeah, forgot to mention... I agree with this... My opinion is that I doubt it has to do with it

i have understanding problem
when a person says something i have to ask them to repeat
its usually not hearing problem
but i have no idea why i cant understand many statements the 1-2 time

I think I have an understanding problem too because I can listen people talking to me but sometimes is like they were talking in another language, the funny thing is that I often get the traslation seconds later (after asking them to repeat or giving a random answer), if I don't I try guessing using the context. I hate when people don't want to repeat what they said

I was taught as a kid that it was rude to keep asking people to repeat themselves. This meant I went through the majority of my life not understanding about 3/4 of what was said to me.

OP definitely get your hearing checked if it is worrying you.

I don't know what it is.

Very often, I find myself having to ask for a repeat of something 3-4 times. And even then, I still don't know what the person is saying. So, I tend to give up.

I don't know if it's because I can't understand and/or can't hear the person.

Now this happens quite often either on the phone or in a loud environment, but then there are times where I am in a very quiet place

No hearing loss here. I got plenty of ear infections as a small child as well. I do get tinnitus at times, but my ears are still exceedinly sharp. I have a problem hearing TOO much. Once when I was tested in Elementary school the examiner was shocked I could hear noises the machine was making. That had never happened before.
Now attention problems, well..

Sincerely,
Matthew

i hear "too much", i think.

Tinnitus made me unable to hear out of my left ear. Now that's gone after some severe ear pain and I'm left with a very sensitive sense of sound.

My family has always said I have a hearing problem, so I had my hearing checked.

While there was some hearing loss, it was still within the normal range.

I told the doctor what my family is always telling me, then I told him that I think it's more of a processing problem but he never said anything.

I also have had 4 surgeries on my TMJs so it's possible that that may cause some issues too.

I'm still pretty sure it's more of a processing problem than actual hearing loss though.

i've had tinnitus since i was a little kid and my dad shot a 30:06 in front of me, without me wearing hearing protection. i don't know how much of my susceptibility to getting tinnitus was based on being on the spectrum. i sometimes get aural migraines in which a [approximate] third-octave band of ambient sound centered at 1000 cycles is distorted into a whistly welter of "wolf tones," in one hemisphere only. those episodes are not pleasant.