Often, my brain just doesn't recognize the sounds as language. Even if I *know* someone is talking to me and it's language. The sounds are part of the blend, part of the ambience. No different from the breeze, or traffic. Or bright lights. Or, what is that smell? And man, my hair is touching my face again. OK. So for me it's sensory processing disorder, not just auditory.
It's hard to explain to people that simply hearing the words isn't enough. The words must be processed by the brain, and it's like the words get sent to the wrong part of the brain entirely.
It's much easier to read them than hear them. Processing is different.
And I'm with you on the touch/other sounds/etc. I cannot process if something/someone is touching me. "Oh you put your hand on my back. I'm sorry are you speaking? I can't hear you bc there's a grain of sand in my shoe."
Yes.
Sometimes I can't make the words make sense. And sometimes my brain just takes a little longer to process the words, so I ask what, but then halfway through them repeating it, I catch up and respond... and I interrupt them repeating it because if I wait for a second time, I'll lose the meaning.
I don't mean to be rude!
And YES to it being much easier to process written words.
@tyghebright
Uugghhh I do that with my husband several times a day. What? Oh. Yes yes yes I get it now. But when I do that to him, he loses HIS train of thought, so he has to finish going over it again. Meanwhile my mind has gotten impatient and has wandered away. π¬