simple poll on hearing drop-outs when listening to talking

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i don't know what it is called, i suspect it is part of ADHD inattentive subtype, but when my mind is in a resting state or daydreaming, if somebody suddenly speaks to me i ALWAYS miss the first few syllables or even the first few words. it reminds me of one of those battery-powered bluetooth keyboards that "wakes up" only after you've typed a few words, thus dropping the beginning of a sentence.
anybody else here have this problem? or a name for it?
thank you good WPeople

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I don't but I wonder if my dad might have this. He's hearing impaired so it's difficult to tell but I think he also has some issue with auditory processing. I think a lot of the time he hears things but he's just not aware that he's hearing them.

i've googled auditory processing disorder and this seems a part of that.

I drop out at the start, in the middle, and/or at the end - not from lack of interest though.
It's involuntary with verbal communication.

I'm dx with auditory processing disorder but they didn't say that was part of it.
I'm sure it could be, but they just didn't explain it that way.
They said I can't learn from listening or watching, but only by reading or writing.

I'm sure that applies.
That's why I like WP where I can read and write my communication.


* I can't stand radio announcers, weather reporters, traffic reports, etc.
I completely tune out on human voices unless it's directly at me.
Even then it's very hard to focus.

Yes, what you are describing is very normal for me. The words just don't register.

I believe it is auditory processing disorder - meaning there's nothing wrong with the ears, it's an issue with the way the brain takes in sensory input. Or as you said, it may be a kind of ADD inattentiveness, although I'm not diagnosed.

For some people, it might be related to autistic monotropism. That means a tendency to receive only one kind of sensory input at a time.

But for me it seems more that I can't switch my attention quickly enough. When I'm thinking about or concentrating on one thing, people's voices don't register. It takes my brain a moment to realise it should be paying attention to that input.

I often lose things from the middle and end also, which definitely seems to be an attention thing, where I zone out.

If somebody unexpectedly says something to me, I'm often rather slow at switching my attention onto what they're saying, so I do often miss the first few words. I think it's down to hyperfocus. I'm sure there'd be less of a problem if people would tell me they had something to say to me before they said it.

My attention used to drop out during lectures and anything resembling a lecture. I guess that's normal to a degree, but most students seemed more able than I was at listening to random talking.

i'm glad i'm not the only one. nobody else seems to understand outside of us here.

It happens to me all the time.

^^^CR, how do you cope with it?

i am wondering if, in the face of the audio drop-outs, if anybody's brain automatically confabulates a replacement for the missing audio?

For me this seems a delay switching focus to even KNOW anybody is talking.
My ADHD partner is even worse with me....I have to make noise and watch for her to start listening.

I do have an auditory processing issue.
Likely acquired through a burnout during my first years as a working adult full time, combined with a complication of chronic rhinitis messing with my ears.

That it doesn't matter if my mind is very focused at the speaker, hanging into each word and syllable... I WILL mishear and miss something.
And stress aggravates it to a point that I may not even register my own words despite that it came out correctly.



It's not an innate trait of mine.
Never got the same problems as a child and teen -- even during my assessments reported that I didn't had any of it.

It never helps that my household habit does not consists of calling onto me to pay attention.
My mom just blurts out the things I'm supposed to hear. And that habit of hers pisses me off. Ended up emulating it pisses my bosses off.
Along with my other EDF related issues like slow verbal recall, working memory issues and subtle multitasking processes.

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