No Response to Name

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An indicator of autism is frequently "no response to name". I was wondering if anyone remembers not responding to their name and why they did not respond.

I still don't respond to my name at times.
This is because I have to finish my thought processes before I can answer.

Because people touch me at my arm or shoulder or wave with their hands in front of my face and then I realize them and they say things like: "Don't you hear me? I called you [they say a number] times."
Or: "Are you on another planet?"
Why I don't respond is because I don't hear it.

I often don't. Usually I hear them saying my name but it doesn't register that it is me they are speaking to, or I haven't heard them as I'm too involved in something else.

I rarely responded, for many reasons.

One was auditory processing disorder(APD). I noticed during my daughter's evaluation even though they were aware of her APD, they did not accommodate it or realize when it might be affecting her responses. Another effect of APD for me was that it would take me a measurable amount of time to decipher that someone was talking, that they were saying the name assigned to me and that they wanted me to do...something? It's not like they were actually asking me a question, they were just saying my name (from my pov as a child on the spectrum), an annoying distraction.

Another was because I felt threatened by the world, by my parents & teachers - by just about anyone who would have a social interaction with me & therefore use my name. I learned early that if I ignored them, sometimes they'd not follow up on it and would instead leave me alone.

I also hated my name and refused to answer to it until I started getting physically punished for doing so. Then, once I understood and had made a rule that when I heard it I needed to answer with 'yes'/'here'/'what?', APD prevented me from getting right much of the time anyway.

I remember not responding to my name when I was a little kid. It's like I noticed it but was detached from it.

I am still like that at times.

because i was annoyed at having to hear it again and again and again.

also a sign of sudden deafness.

I was in my own world and didn't know someone was talking to me.

I think that's only a symptom in autistic babies.

I still feel detached from my name. When someone says it I have to consciously work it out and realize that they're talking to/about me. I also don't use other people's names, it feels awkward. Nicknames are awesome

I've done that, for several reasons:

a) almost being asleep and pretending to be asleep so I won't wake up again from responding

b) being so into what I'm doing (usually surfing the net, reading, playing video game, watching something or thinking or daydreaming) that I honestly don't notice it

c) wanting to be left alone for whatever reason and hoping they will go away if I ignore them

d) hearing them and staying quiet waiting for them to go on with whatever they wanted to say

e) Not wanting to respond to a name I hated

The most times I can think I have not responded is when I am in my 'trance states'. Some of those times, it has taken physical contact to break it. I can't think of a time that I heard my name, but it did not register. But, maybe it has happened and I didn't realize it?

Does that count?

The only other time is when I am in a crowd and the voices are just a wall of murmurs and I can't tell who's talking or to whom.

so much this, it doesn't feel right! it's...off. it is one of the instances where i loathe my voice. even with my gf, using a nickname is more comfortable than her proper name.

i call her "keel".