Do any of yall have problems with hearing?

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Alot of times when people are talking to me I can't hear what they are saying. I "CAN HEAR THEM" but I don't understand. It's like sometimes the words don't add-up. I end up saying "huH" or "what you say". I feel embarassed having to say that multiple times in a short conversation.

That seems like a problem listening or comprehending language, not a problem with hearing, right?

pretty much but it perceived as others as if you can't hear or you slow.

I believe that is called Auditory Processing Disorder. Anyways, I have problems like this, all the time. I have people repeat things more than usual, and when I am in a loud place I have to lean in abnormally close to hear what my friend is saying.

Right. I'm not good at locating sounds, because my hearing is bad in my left ear (which pisses me off greatly because I am a musician and I don't think I have the ability to pull a Beethoven). If I'm not looking at someone, and they say something, I don't know which side they are on.

I asked the same question a while back. I'm sensative to loud noises but can't make out the words a person is saying. I've had to ask more than once what they or a person was saying. It seems to be worse when they're talking in a group and they converse and respond quickly with eachother. I'm just left in the dark when this happens. Another huge problem I have is having to ask over and over again. Sometimes I hesitate anymore because they raise their voice at me and I can't stand the volume going up or their annoyance with me. I don't know how to explain to them that I can hear but I can't hear the sound of their diction espeacially when their diction is slurry.

I was told by a lot of people that it sounded like an Auditory Processing Disorder . So I think I have it after doing some research. I never knew how to explain this to anyone. I was always told, "Well if you have sensative hearing, how come you can't hear what I'm saying?"

It's very annoying and embarassing. Sometimes I pretend I know what they're saying.

Very interesting topic! I'd been wondering about the same, and didn't know it happened to others.

When 2 people are talking to each other a bit intimately next to me, even if there's no background noise, it's hard for me to understand what they're saying.

This and not recognizing faces would make me the best detective, haha.

Yes, this happens to me too. I often have to ask people to repeat what they've said, even though about a third of the time I figure out what it was the moment after I've asked. The problem is worse with any kind of background noise... I can't understand my wife in the grocery store if we're near the refrigerated sections, for example.

Other times I hear most of what's said but there's a little audio dyslexia going on. Funny story on that:

I was working as a waiter at a tex-mex place in Alabama, and as you might expect there was country music playing. I came out with a huge tray one time and a song came on-- I started laughing so hard that I had to set the tray on a random table. When I could finally breathe and tell people precisely what the hell was wrong with me, I gasped out that it was the song. They told me it was a top 40 song, which just set me off all the more.

The song was actually "Now I Lay Me Down to Cheat," but what I heard, clear as day, was "Now I Lay Me Down With Sheep."

With a moderate case of AS, some CAP (central auditory processing; I use hearing aids for both ears but they don't help much) , and prosopagnosia (a good case of that!) I seem to be headed for the hypochondria ward if not worse. And now my daughter tells me that I have anxiety problems -- and she's probably right because her daughter has been diagnosed with anxiety and my symptoms correspond with hers.

I'm thankful nobody's yet mentioned schizophrenia. (Sssshhhh. Don't give them ideas.)

I used to have real problems recognizing speech through at least the 6th grade. I could hear the volume and pitch just fine, but understanding the words had a lag, and often I would ask "What?" because I needed to hear it again. I was believed to be autistic because of a delay in my speech, but I was deaf until age 3 or 4 because of an ear problem. Maybe this had something to do with early problems with speech recognition. Even to this day I can read languages other than English better than I can listen to them.

I've occasionally had problems getting what someone else is saying, but since I've worked on flightlines, at Sub rework facilities and at Oil Refineries for almost 29 of my 48 years I've always figured that was the cause. Maybe its not.