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Sometimes, I suddenly don´t understand, what people are saying/explaining. It is just sounds and I have to ask them to repeat once, maybe twice (some get frustrated) before I can put it together. It used to scare me, when I was a teen. It comes in periods, more or less.
Is it some sort of processing-thing?

When I am suddenly interrupted in what I´m doing or made nervous, I often drop things and make a mess of it all. My neighbour has learned to knock softly and give me time, or he will hear BANG, CRASH, SPLASH through the door.

It is like my coordination breaks down for a moment.
As expert once told me, that aspergers mean less bandwidth.

I asked about something I'm assuming is just like this. I was told its an audio processing issue. For me, I view it like a computer with not enough RAM.

I definitely have a brain that sometimes has not enough bandwidth and not enough RAM!

I also drop things or do something the wrong way, when flustered by something unexpected, a person interrupting what I'm doing, or even if the general situation is unusual and is discombobulating me.

In the past when I've tried to make a new friend, just having them over has flustered me enough that that is ALWAYS the time I broke a glass in my favorite decorative set, or left my shopping list at home, and other mishaps. Anytime a new situation, a new person, or just a person interrupting my process happens, something always goes wrong, I break something accidentally, I'm clumsier, I lose track of myself, shortly after.

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Yeah! It did ring a bell, when I read about auditory processing. I just didn´t tell my psychologist.

OOOh! I know about breaking glass! I´ve bought some extra solid drinking glasses, that have now lasted 3 years!
I´m not clumsy. Things should just learn to keep away from MY path!

I always thought this not being able to understand someone was a weird migraine thing. It used to scare me too. I thought I was going crazy. It's funny how so many of the things I used to blame on odd migraine activity (I am referring to perception and sensation symptoms not the actual headache part) might actually be better explained by thus auditory processing or other sensory issue. Some I know was "migrainish", others it wasn't.

This "coordination loss" type of thing happens to me in new situations mostly, especially with new people. It's often like I forget how to function like a person and I drop things, get clumsy, miss more of their "cues", and do things "backwards." I probably look like a scatter-brained ditz. It's like I can't "do" and "talk" at the same time. It's not as bad if I am at home and we are talking while I am doing some rote chore or cooking. But out of the house or doing something new and or complicated at home and I can't keep up with it all. Other times it just happens from thinking too much about other things.

This happens in school/college lessons sometimes, particularly if
I'm tired or if it involves maths (which is a weak subject of mine, not sure why)
it would be like 20 minutes into the lesson and it already feels like
I literally JUST walked into the classroom and I'm lost on what the teacher is talking about.

Also, structure is important in my case.
A syllabus isn't worth learning to me if I don't at least have a vague structure.
Like knowing a story, it's kinda useless if you don't know the beginning, middle and end
because random pieces of information are not as nice as a package.

Wow - I have that problem and I used to attribute it to my migarines too. Now I know better and chaulk it up to being autistic.