#AuDHD time management:
I have an appointment at 17:00. It’s in a different town, to which I’ll go by a train, and to the train station I’d go by metro and then walk(when I booked the appointment, there was a direct train there from a nearby station that’s just about an hour walk from here, but it recently got temporarily suspended due to road works)
So, the train takes 30-35 minutes, and there’s 10 minutes walk to the address I need from the train station, so I need about an hour to come there, trains are going every six minutes, so, I guess, just to be on the safer side, I have to be on the train station no later than at 15:45.
It’s 40 minutes walk to the train station from my line of metro (I could have just transfer to another line, but that other line is old and makes me feel quite claustrophobic, so I absolutely definitely prefer to walk), so to be safe, I need to go out of metro no later than 14:50.
On metro, from my station to that station, maps say it’s 40 minutes, but based on previous trips I refuse to believe it’s less than an hour, and what if I will need to miss one train - no, I should count more than an hour. Ok, I guess, to be on metro at around 13:40 should be safe.
To the metro, there’s about 800m walking, so, I suppose, I need to plan to go out at 13:15. Which means I have to be already prepared at about 13:00 to have those 15 minutes to check that everything is ok. It takes anything from 10 minutes to an hour to get ready, so I am putting an alarm to start get dressed at 12:00. Oh, and I have to make sure all the documents are ready and I didn’t forget anything, so I have to set another alarm at 11:30 to have time for that.
I could go by taxi and the trip would take 45 minutes, but it would cost 40+ euro one way.

There is no direct bus, and I hesitate using buses with transfers due to a fear to get confused and go somewhere wrong - and generally I have stopped using them when the Covid pandemic began, and have used them just a few times since then, idk why, but I feel very uncomfortable in them compared to trains/metro

So, for an appointment at 17:00, the alarms start at 11:30. And in the morning I can’t start anything that takes uncertain time to be finished, so the day is basically gone.

This appointment could have been a phone call, but I al not ok with phone calls, and I don’t trust my APD to get everything right, and it’s just too important to have it by phone because I know I am always stressed so much by the very need to decipher things during a call that I totally forget about all the important stuff I wanted to clarify

Instead, I took a vacation day for today - with a single purpose to attend this appointment

I was told: you can’t have #ADHD, you are never late. That’s why. That’s why I am never late - because I manage every timed human interaction this way

I was told: you don’t have all these diagnoses, they are for people whose life is severely impacted, and yours is ok. That’s. That’s what happens inside when from outside it looks ok and not impacted.

#neurodivergent
#AuditoryProcessingDisorder
#anxiety
@actuallyautistic

Girl-type-thing whose auditory processing was too slow to process Hank Green talking about HTTP response status codes at full speed, so she just slowed the video speed down to 0.75 times in order to comprehend and absorb what he was saying

Yay for the Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) that came bundled with our AuDHD

How empowering; I got to stand up to AI today!

I have APD (auditory processing disorder), and auditory training can help a great deal, along with hearing aids, which I do have. However...the product designed for this, which I bought, is completely laced with AI. I cannot use this product and stay true to my values, so I am punting on using the product with an emphatic DELETE. It may too late to vote with my money, but at least I can vote with my product usage and clicks.

Hopefully my audiologist can offer other products/resources that don't use that technology.

Did the robot say "if you need anything else, gentlemen, use the beaver?" #Monsterdon #AuditoryProcessingDisorder

sometimes I wish it was possible to be like Hoshi Sato, just picking up entire languages in a couple days

I always watch stuff with subtitles bc I have some minor auditory processing issues¹

lately I've been watching a lot of dubbed² stuff³ and it's been really fascinating seeing the differences between the dubs and the subtitles meant as a translation for the original language

I mean, it's similar to the way subtitles meant for #Deaf and #HardOfHearing viewers are sometimes slightly off from what was said (which is an #accessibility issue)

#disability #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #linguistics

¹ it's worst over the phone, which is fun since that's my whole job, or if I otherwise can't see the person who's speaking, which sometimes happens in TV/movies
² I finished #Ranma12 and started #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo
³ or, in the case of #StopHibariKun, both an anime and a manga with fan translations by different people

I've recently been struggling more with selective mutism than usual. If I talk at all I keep mumbling and whispering because that's what feels most comfortable for me when it comes to conversation volume. my energy level is too depleted to mask and talk louder. I have a boulder on my chest keeping me from speaking my mind. it's so hard not being able to speak when it's important. my partner struggles with #AuditoryProcessingDisorder so it's kinda hard to communicate. having to repeat myself is stressing me out, him not getting what I say is stressing him out.
not sure how to handle this situation, I'm just so fucking tired and there is so much on the to do list I get anxious just thinking about it. I'd be most comfy not talking at all right now...
#selectivemutism #actuallyautistic

2024-08-19 Autie Biographical by Theresa Scovil

Funny thing last week with #accents — for context, my visual acuity and #ventral stream are stronger than average, but I've got some #AuditoryProcessingDisorder or auditory #agnosia so that listening to thick accents is like watching with subtitles that autocorrect.

An audio-only Welsh accent said "Cally Cook" but I heard the word "Kirk". Then it hit me that #CaptainKirk and #CaptainCook are both famous captains … COULD THEY BE the same name on purpose?

Guess what: James Cook, James Kirk.

For years, we used to explain to folks that we experienced a phonological delay in processing speech or sounds, and that it was likely linked to us being autistic.

We only later worked out that we're actually AuDHD (inattentive ADHD and autistic) and that there's an actual medical term for this: auditory processing disorder.

If you're some flavour of neurospicy, you might have it too without realising. Common signs and symptoms include:

• speaking louder or softer than is situationally appropriate;
• difficulty remembering lists or sequences;
• needing words or sentences to be repeated;
• impaired ability to memorize information learned by listening;
• interpreting words too literally;
• needing assistance to hear clearly in noisy environments;
• relying on accommodation and modification strategies;
• finding or requesting a quiet work space away from others;
• requesting written material when attending oral presentations; and
• asking for directions to be given one step at a time.

It heavily overlaps with ADHD and autism ​ ​

Hope this is helpful to someone ​

I was in a virtual meeting with a bunch of people once, and one of them had a very strong accent. She was talking about how it made her so angry that people couldn’t understand her when she spoke, and that they blamed her accent. I kept my mouth shut on the matter, but was thinking that because of my auditory processing issues, I frequently have a hard time understanding people with the same accent as me. Keeping my attention super-focused on only the person speaking is exhausting for me. I often hear everything going on around me with the same weight as the person speaking to me. It’s not intentional. It’s how my brain works. And if I’m tired or not feeling well, it gets that much more difficult. Adding an accent to the mix is just another obstacle for me to overcome. #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #ActuallyAutistic #Hearing #Listening #ADHD #AuDHD

Someone pointed out that socialising while masked in a bar is tough because lots of people rely on lipreading.

I also suck at lipreading AND my #AuditoryProcessingDisorder suffers in crowds, so I'm using #masking as a reminder to practice #signlanguage.

Anyone at #ARO2024 is very welcome to drop by my poster. M24.

If it is important information, it needs to be given to students in MULTIPLE forms. You cannot omit important info from your slides, only speak that info verbally, test (in some form) that info, and then be surprised or upset when they don't do well. Some students have #AuditoryProcessingDisorder, others might be hard of hearing, others #ADHD, etc. The diagnosis & the #disability (official or not) do not matter; the #accessibility does. Your #teaching is not accessible.

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#monsterdon I just missed the dialogue of the first scene (in the car) cause I didn't realise it was coming out of the wrong speakers and I was trying to add subtitles cause I assumed the audio was just bad enough that my #AuditoryProcessingDisorder just couldn't parse the words...
#ActuallyAutistic problems