Brains of autistic children slower at processing sound

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Yeah, that matches up with the high prevalence of auditory processing disorders in autistics, myself included. I've been called out before for enunciating clearly without slurring my speech- apparently, this is something foreign to most neurotypicals, which explains why I often fail to understand what they're saying. I was just trying to speak clearly, it would seem NT's don't need such clear speech for effective communication, which just makes clearer enunciation seem awkward or overly formal.

Interesting!! ! I let my brain run on auto. If I'm required to get something off someone, as long as I can see them about to throw, I can catch very quickly before my brain has a chance to catch up.
With visuals, anything in my line of sight that should not be there, I will react in accordance to avoid any conflict, such as eye entry, mouth entry (bugs) or any items coming towards me or someone walking out of a shop blindly.
Auditory, any immediate sudden noise, I will turn my head quickly to the believed source.

But, people are different, just some heads up for you.

Although there are a few accidents when I am relaxed, knocking stuff over.

I was born deaf in my left ear so I wouldn't be able to tell you.

The story of my life

I have an Auditory Perception Disorder

This might explain why my computer yells at me when I type certain words and phrases for the first time. I've been hearing them wrong!

not really me i'm afraid, i process sound incredibly fast and in dimensions that most people find staggering (playing by ear etc)

i don't think the problem is hearing or processing the sound, its processing a correct response to it that takes the time...x

Maybe that's why it takes me so long to catch what someone is saying to me... I start to ask them to repeat it, then suddenly it clicks in.

That would make sense for me since it seems I have an auditory processing disorder and it can take me some time to reply to someone, not usually in minutes but bits of a second.

I wonder whether the study tried testing subjects with different kinds of "sound", not just voices. It says "a battery of sounds and syllables".

I had the impression, from previous threads about APDs, that the AS "slowness" is very often only with speech, not sounds in general, which if anything we are often very sensitive to, ... unless that is because it takes many of us longer to process all sounds, which therefore "occupy" our attention more as a result, and are stressful/distracting, ( alright if we are free to concentrate on them/don't need to think about anything else, but not otherwise ).
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I frequently cannot make out the opening words of what people say to me. Usually when this happens, the first word is crucial to the meaning, eg the difference between "WOULD you do something?" "SHOULD you do something" and "DID you do something?". If I try to say that I couldn't make out the start of their question, they start repeating it while I'm still saying that, so that once again, I can't hear it properly

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