Auditory processing disorder

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Does anyone suffer Auditory processing disorder? Is it related to AS, I know it is a separate disorder but does it generally appear with AS. I seem to have alot of problems in understanding what people are saying to me, I can repeat back word for word what they have said, but cannot process it at the time. I am starting to get frustrated, not that I may have this disorder, but the fact people might think I'm stupid because I can't respond to them. I know what I want to say but my brain is stopping me from communicating.

Sorry forgot to add some links-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_p ... g_disorder

http://www.neuron.ie/resources_CAPD.htm ... ZwodWiL2WQ

Yes, I think this is a major part of my AS. It's frustrating, especially when people get snippy and say things like, "Did I stutter?"

Yes, people seem to do that quite a bit with me also. Do you hear the person and want to respond but can't somehow? People would normally say to me, "Are you slightly deaf?" and I respond with... "not at all my hearing is perfect". Then they make a face like this one

this is the exact communicative issues im having with this foreign postdoc i work with. we'll be talking about something i will have to do or something i just did and he wants me to explain why i did something...

it's really embarassing cause i know he often thinks im a bird-brain or that he's having problems with english... and so he'll often take it to mean that i totally just didn't get something and start re-explaining everything from the beginning and i have to sit through it all again unless i can find a sec to interrupt him... but i find that hard to do.

i've never been tested for this kinda stuff though.... so O.o?

It is very hard to understand this disorder, yet alone explain it to others.

I would be trying to take notes and the information is going in, but I can't get it down on paper as I can't process what they are saying making it really hard to take notes. I find it hard to ask someone to repeat because that means it has to be repeated to everyone present I may start to use a dicta-phone more and write notes when I get home. If the information is written down on paper I have no problem in understanding it, but spoken is a different matter altogether.

I have not been tested for it either, but I recognise the symptoms because my twin (AS also) suffers with APD.

I have a terrible time attempting to differentiate the thing I want to hear from all the other sounds around it. I say "waht" a lot. and I am pretty sure now that you bring it up, that data drops out of my processing even if I did hear it.

The word "What" and "Sorry" come into my conversation all the time. I just don't have the time to ask, can you relay that back please. One time it was after the third attempt of asking me a question, that I finally responded even though I heard the question the first time. It is hard when you need the information for study and can't process it to take the essential notes needed.

Yes, I totally have this problem, and similarly to you all, I really hate it when the person I'm talking with makes some witty or sarcastic remark to suggest that I wasn't listening. And in fact, that phrase "wasn't listening," reminds me of my early P.E. years. My teachers would always tell the class how to do a drill, but I could never follow along well. Then they'd always say "you don't know because you weren't listening."

This was a stream of consciousness, but you reminded me how big a part of my AS that syndrome covers.

sometimes i think that being aspie in society is akin to driving a blimp through a slolom.

A blimp in a slalom... Wow, that's a very interesting analogy, and I see what you're saying.

oh yeah, I've DEFINITLY had moments where words were just effing meaningless to me I can repeat it back, and some times no matter how many times I repeat it, or they repeat it I CAN'T comprehend what is being said, under normal circumstances I have no problems with written language

I can hear really well, but I can't figure out what the hell was said.