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I have this condition too. It feels like everyone is speaking a different language around you.

I’m 42 and only just found out I have this. Your video makes so much sense… Going a whole life without knowing this hasn’t been easy. I’ve definitely had to learn how to read body language, facial expressions etc. Thankfully I can hear tone because that saves me. I’m always nodding and agreeing with things. I don’t know what they’re saying But I can tell if it’s important enough that I need to get them to fully explain it to me. I’ve had a lot of people get annoyed and angry at me for not listening, not being quick enough etc. And now I know this. I just don’t want to be around people at all lol

The accuracy is unreal🙌🙌

I think have apd🥲

I hope you are well wherever you are <3 this is how Central/Cognitive Auditory Processing Disorder feels too. I Hate having to explain myself and my coworkers not believe me. It is Beyond exhausting every single day.

I have had the EXACT same experience as you 🎀

I have been suffering with APD for the past 10 years. May I know if there is any treatment for it. I am very facing very difficulties at Work place and during communication with my boss and with friends. I feel so much pain. Pease suggest me if you have any treatments??

I got my APD from a brain injury. Everyone thinks I'm aloof and anti-social because I generally don't want to talk to anyone. I stay mostly isolated because of it and I just don't care anymore. People can think whatever they like about me as long as they leave me alone. I don't hate humans, I just only have about 5 that I actually want to talk to, aside from my doctors and people who feed me or feed me ice cream. I'm as simple as it gets. I struggle with you.

I know the issue as well, but I haven't tried to diagnose it so far. My auditory processing problems aren't as severe as this, but I hate parties or other crowded talk environments and I am constantly distracted by all the noise (sometimes even small ones) and it's so often that I awkwardly nod or agree or don't say anything in a conversation just to appear like I understand. Even in somewhat quiet settings I tend to always need to ask follow-up questions like "So, can you please repeat that last part?" or I need to summarize everything again and ask if I got it correctly, even though I work very hard to listen to people. I also need to ask a lot of questions that are embarrassing because I know that the topic was just discussed, but I just didn't get what was said even though I worked hard to listen. It's really bad in public work environments, people can think I am an idiot or refuse to listen and I was fired from a few jobs because I just couldn't understand verbal instructions well and made a lot of mistakes based on that lack of information. That's why I only follow written or visual instructions well, especially in quiet or sensorily low-intensity environments. I also had huge issues in school, I was rarely ever able to understand verbal homework instructions because those were always given to us at the end of the lesson when the other children were getting louder, packing their bags and starting to talk, and the homework instructions always involved very minute details such as "page 54" and I got the "page" part, but not the exact number and that was important. I was sometimes able to ask other students, but as it was very embarrassing and I had hardly any friends, I rarely ever asked for fear of looking stupid. In the end the whole thing was so frustrating that I just gave up about homework, even though I always felt guilty about it, but I didn't know what else to do other than working hard in other aspects. I avoid noisy public settings at all costs, I only talk to one or two people in quiet environments and I love texting because I can understand everything that way. I tend to be better if I am able to write things down right away, bit by bit, so I'm very glad if I am at my laptop keyboard and able to write a word document on what I just heard (I'm one of the fastest typists that you have ever met). In fact writing something down in real time is easier for understanding what was said than listening and writing it down afterwards. Every important phone call gets a word document or else I can't get much of what the other speaker said. Honestly, I was always embarrassed of this, but I never considered it a real "thing", I just tried to make the best of it instead of trying to find accommodations for it. Some people considered me rude or inconsiderate because I had so much trouble listening to them, but I never tried to give myself some slack by trying to get diagnosed for this. My ex left me in part because she felt I didn't listen and that I therefore didn't care about her... which was the opposite of how I felt... It felt like a big misunderstanding that haunts me to this day.

I’ve lived with this my whole life and thought it was just a quirk. I’ve never been able to talk on the phone with someone while also there’s any type of background noise or someone else talking to me at the same time (say like placing a to go order and someone else wanting to tell me to add xyz). At work with too much going on such as talking on the phone but if someone else talks to me or tries to get my attention I just can’t. It is like a mumble or noise, i simply can’t focus. I’m over 50, never had ear infections and just learned about this a couple years ago. I shared with friends and family that have known me awhile so they could understand. It all made sense when I started learning the symptoms. I don’t have ADHD or dyslexia and have normal hearing otherwise. Who could’ve known about this in the 80s?

Good luck to Room 15!

It's more lik not being a good reader than having bad vision.

"Was I in school?" "No, where's the stool!" Story of my life.

I have APD and it's hell. Even as an adult it's still a struggle. I constantly get frustrated when people say things I don't understand and everyone else around me does. Whats even worse is when people lose patience with you. Oh man.

I have acquired my first pair of apd hearing aids this year and have significantly helped and improved my processing. Without them I have struggled severely with apd since childhood. I also would always say I don't understand and ask folks to repeat themselves. I'm ok with letting folks know I have hearing problems (it's much easier then explaining what apd is)

I have auditory dyslexia, and have been told that it is the same thing as a.p d. I do have auditory dyslexia, but I don't have the symptoms of a.p.d. I.e I don't find it hard to decipher voices in noisy environments. My hearing was tested when I was roughly 7 years old. I showed the odd sign of not understanding, but not anymore.

Yep. That's APD for you, yall! I developed it when I was 28, since then my life has been a mess. I also rely on lip reading. In Brazil, APD is not considered a disability, I don't have legal rights of accommodations.

What can I say? I have APD and a lot of people at my job make fun of me. I haven't told them about it but the struggle is real and I get tired of people looking at me and telling me I'm not paying attention or I'm not listening or yelling are you deaf? I do the best I can around my judgmental rude coworkers. If they knew, they would only talk about me more

This is totally how I hear things. I get social anxiety a bit because I know I won’t be able to “hear” people and respond appropriately. I’m constantly asking people to repeat themselves. One of my best friends is Pakistani with a really thick accent, and she also has ADHD. She talks loudly and rapidly, and switches sentences and context in the middle of saying something. It is SO HARD to understand her, especially on the phone. It is like getting verbal whiplash. I love her and try to understand her, I ask her to slow down sometimes. She tries to remember that I process slower than others. I have done neuropsych testing, but they only came up with ADHD for me. But I think I have APD, and my son, too. I think I only understand 10% of a conversation, the rest is just me mimicking conversation faces and sounds to make it seem like I am participating in the conversation. I just try to keep up. I am so glad I have a natural ability to recognize patterns, because I would misinterpret a lot more often. One of the tools I use is to repeat the sounds I just heard back to the person, like it is a question. They get the chance to correct me, but it also cues them to speak slower or more clearly. I only get a couple chances to use that before it gets frustrating to the other person, and I need to switch strategies. This is usually when I admit I process words a little slower and make a joke. It really helps just being honest with someone. Sometimes I get sad when I try to remember conversations with people and I can’t remember anything because I was working so hard on deciphering that I didn’t actually store the content as something meaningful. I feel like I am not in the room. It is very isolating, and a little embarrassing. My husband looks at me like I have 3 heads when he reminds me of something that was spoken about multiple times, at length…things I even responded to appropriately-and I have zero recollection of it even happening. He looks annoyed, worried, and offended. As if what people say to me isn’t important, or I am not really present. Perhaps I am not really present. I’m trying to be. It just doesn’t feel like I am.

okay i need to know if i have this and if anyone with it experienced not understanding movies and shows? like i remember as a kid watching a whole movie and not really processing all of the speech (at this point i was going off vibes lol) it still happens to me now and i have to try really hard to concentrate and see what is being said but also to connect that to what was said before.

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Thank you for sharing. I just found that I have APD. I kind of feel relieved that there's a reason for my frustrations! Question...when you are in a quiet space, no background noise, do you seem to ",hear" and understand the person you're talking to?

Thank you so much, you are a beautiful young lady and you make more sense than most best of luck xx

Thank you for sharing this! Did APD or dyslexia affect your speech or cause you a speech delay early on?

dang dude! my life! 100%

I am 48 years old. I recently diagnosed APD. Thank you so much for making this video. I need to accepted this and move forward with all of you. I am happy I am not alone.

She used subtitles! 🤗🥺😇🥰

I don't quite hear people if there is background noise or an echo. I tend to say huh and/or what often.

I think I may have this. When I was in 4th grade my teacher sent me for extra hearing tests because I would say what when she would ask stuff. Sometimes it's also like my brain takes longer to process so by the time they start repeating what they said then it's like it all registers.

I have and struggle with ADP to. It's a struggle and a challenge to live with everyday of my life.

I am a Speech Therapist with APD. It's excruciating 🥹

Thank you for putting into words… what we here. I have brain damage due to ischemic cerebral strokes and this is what I have been dealing with. This is new for me and trying to have people understand what I am understanding is difficult. You nailed it on the head! Hearts❤ Thank you.

I feel so seen. I always felt like such a freak in school and in my younger days even college. Its like i was retaining half of the mood, words, sounds, everything that everyone was just getting so qquickly. I developed alcohol issues too becasue of them early on becasue it drowned out the intensity the awful feelings. Now i use EARGASM, LOOP EAR PLUGS, or Flare brands to get me though and I feel like a human. I didnt know i could ever be like this. I just that misery, exhaustion was just common. Its not! THank you for the video!

I'm pretty sure that I have apd. I have experiences like you described and if I'm in a loud room or a room with too many noises, then I struggle to hear what people say. And when I repeat what I heard, then it's always wrong. Unless I can read people's lips, it's very difficult. Often I just laugh and nod my head, but that sometimes is the incorrect response and then people get mad at me.

I have APD and I’m ngl it fucking sucks, I zone out a lot, can’t listen to what anyone is saying if it’s not simple, make terrible life decisions and have shocking social skills. Also trying to find a girlfriend is hard af coz on a date you always can’t think of anything good to talk about so u get that awkward pause and if u approach when drunk u always seem to repeat what u said before which pisses them off. U also get treated differently to everyone else when u wish u was indifferent, u also have a problem with telling the truth

Thank you I think I can relate to this big time. Work is always difficult and now I know I'm not alone!!

Thank You!

I think I have APD. Your video described exactly what I experience when people talk to me. It's so embarrassing. I avoid social interactions because of it. I only just recently heard of APD. I always thought I was a weirdo with how my ears garbled things. It's good to know I'm not alone and that this is a real condition. It explains so much.

Man this was my childhood in a nutshell! I think I was diagnosed at 5 or 6. It is SO much better as a 30 year old but I can be very overstimulated by sounds still. I am homeschooling my precious children and I love it but sometimes the noise is very overwhelming 😅😂

I was diagnosed when I was about 7 or 8, I don’t have much memory of my experience but in school I really struggled. I still don’t understand though I’ve actually improved after doing a re-test My mum probably remembers more than me because she told me she would talk to me or call out and it was like I just didn’t hear her but I was looking. Instructions are really hard, and I would get in trouble a lot with my teachers because I wouldn’t do exactly what they asked 😅 all I can remember is being really confused and try and copy what the other kids were doing. In grade 2 I had spelling tests and the teacher would call out the words, but I was in a split class with Grade 3’s and it was French immersion, so it was double hard & I wouldn’t understand what was being said and would copy down the grade 3’s words too. Got an FM system later to help filter out the teacher’s voice that year & a lot of kids asked me, I didn’t mind & a lot of the kids actually wanted to play with it. When I had it for longer I find it to be a big hassle, and I hate it honestly. I’d hear the teacher but sometimes the battery would die on the teacher’s mic & I’d have to awkwardly remind them, and there’s a few features that they never use or properly and it’s tiring and awkward to remind them daily. When I’d hear the teacher, I’d hear uh things I wasn’t 😅 a lot of nose blowing on the lighter side, but I heard private teacher convos too. I know it’s supposed to help me but really I hate it, to points where I wouldn’t use it for years on and off again, but I got a new model now, and it’s not as bulky. I still don’t like it though. I decided to take a retest because I found I wasn’t struggling as bad now I’m older and I did actually improve, but it wasn’t enough to not have my FM system completely. I don’t want it with me forever. Instructions and directions are hard to follow, I’m scared that people will think I’m rude when explaining to me and I don’t look at them, but I’m trying to picture everything in my head. I hate classes like Science & Math because of all the instructions used. I need subtitles for literally everything even if it’s English (btw thanks for subs on the video it was nice) I hated live action movies when I was younger because he actors don’t enunciate words properly like in animated movies. I always heard mumbles and not English (I rewatched a few now, I can understand now and have but realizations of “Ohhh that’s what was being said??” However, listening to movies or videos in class I hate because of all the echo and I can’t concentrate a lot, so I either concentrate so hard if I know I won’t see it again or completely zone out (class readings weren’t really fun, I was lost a lot tbh) it helps a bit because I’ve seen other FM systems before, not the other students but this year I saw an FM system like mine in the Student Support room, it made me feel a bit excited ngl Anyways yeah in short: - I hate Instructions, they’re too complicated and I waste time making sure this is what I’m supposed to do - I have a bad habit of pretending I understand when really I don’t (I’ve asked them to re-explain or repeat over and over and I feel bad bc they get annoyed) - No subtitles = less understanding & funny mishearings when looking back, or still nothing - I can’t work with noise, even the smooth soft Study Music for tasks needing reading or math. If it’s background talking like in cafés it’s easier than actual music - I hate using my FM system, it’s awkward and tiring to constantly remind teachers every year or ever if they get the hang of it, so I just don’t use it even though I should

I don't think this is what i have but it feels similar. I have a ear I damaged with Qtips, and since then it seems like it gets affected by atmospheric changes. But I feel like I've ALWAYS misunderstood what I've read or heard. Particularly instructions or information that I'll be expected to pass on or later give back. It's like my mind is one of those twisty ball loopers at doctors offices. I either immediately forget what I was told,or remember it opposite to what it is. It even extends to my memories. I'm not sure what I remember as happening, actually happened at all. Sometimes i feel like i should get a mini camera to wear 24/7 to record so that I can know for sure. 😅

I was diagnosed with apd when I was very young around 7ish . My teacher started getting pissed of at me when i was younger because I kept skipping lines in books and getting lost into the page at every end of a line and saying 'huh' or what far to much maybe even 6 times across a room with little to none background noise every command. I was not aloud to do alot of things in plays because I couldn't remember my lines which i was sad cause i liked to act but could never remember a line even with weeks of practice. I know that there is people who are far worse than me and I feel so sorry for them cause even though my experiences aren't bad like I don't tell anyone its just my daily life and people get pissed cause I cant study without pictures, cant read books, Try to do thing teachers say but I have no idea what they said I just didnt want to say huh again or what to sound rude and have never had a inside voice Im always the one getting yelled at in class cause I'm loud even though I think im being reasonably quite. apd isn't being quirky its a very minor disorder that pisses myself off cause these little small things build up from being the loud annoying kid in class to then be the quite kid cause i don't wanna be rude. Summary apd is annoying af i hate it but have to get on with it cause at the end of the day if you say what enough to a teacher they will chose someone else to do the task

I wish more people talked about this

I have the same thing I pray they can find a cure For us. People really don't know how hard it is with this curse disease or how our brain is designed. All I know is we have a depressing life and I hope they find a cure fast God bless.

Love the video! Sorry you are going through this as well, but now I know I'm not alone. Sometimes, I hear what is being said but the processing of it seems delayed with me and then I realize only too late because most people don't have time or interest in repeating themselves, at least in my own experience.

My daughter is 8. Also has adhd. What do I do to not stress her out. Especially with learning in school... Her mother and I don't live together. So I see her often until the weekend. Any advice would help.

Thank you for sharing. Would learning ASL be helpful? I only ask because I believe my daughter has it. She’s young and I want to help her the best way I can.

I have APD and I have never met anyone my age that understands me with it. I can’t do anything noise canceling headphones and it sucks.

Hi, I just found out about APD today, after looking up what I am dealing with all my life. I then showed a family member (who berates me and curses me out on a daily basis because I cannot process what being said) family member said this is BS, you are just pretending. You do this purposely to be rude and provocative, its so engrained in you that you do not know it. I hope to be free of this psychological abuse soon

HI!Can you please tell me what kind of diagnoze procedure should i make to my 7 years son ?Is it complicated?Can deficit attention disorder could be missunderstood as APD or viceversa?Thx...so blessed to find your channel..