I'm Gonna Have To Start Pulling The Autism/Processing Disorder Card

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

get whatever help you need so you can learn effectively. if you have to let someone know what the deal is..do it!

Right!

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

Order several - I lose everything.

I tried to order online from an NT shop and said ' I'm autistic can you please send me a card?'

They said ' 'Stop making excuses' and wouldn't send me one.


Next time I'll use your guy!

Apologies for my sense of humor, I agree with the card and am sure it will help.

You can just order one off the internet. Amazon has only one type of autism card, but it IS an autism card you can get. You don't have to take crap from those nasty people at that shop anymore.

 

[paloftoon]

I see. Ask and look for as many video resources as you can.
Ask for permission to record the person lecturing. Then, you can listen to the lecturer later on and have the lecture repeated to you at your own time so that you can catch on to important things and have practice for becoming acclimated to the speed of others' talking.

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

Have you ever been tested for Central Auditory Processing Disorder?

Are you allowed to record your lectures so you can go over the words later until you can figure out what they are?

Could you look for a tutor? To get help with things in a quiet, one on one setting? In a classroom setting it may not always be possible for the professor to slow down/alter their teaching process for you (and if they are not understanding about your difficulty I am guessing that going to see them during office hours would not help) -- sucks but it's the nature of classrooms.

I've never been tested for that. Only autism. My sensory disorder such as sensitivity to loud noises often comes with it, so he didn't mention sensory processing disorder when I described the sensitivity to loud noises, urge to chew, sensitive sense of smell, etc. He added anxiety and depression to my diagnosis (which is also accurate), but as far as processing disorder, I assume that comes with autism as well like the sensory thing?

Ad a part of my accommodations, I am allowed to record, but that would be very difficult as I need to keep my phone's music going to block out the popping binder rings, bumping chairs, squeaky door, loud air conditioner, etc. That's what makes it harder to process what he's saying, even when I have one earbud in my ear and the other ear covered with a foam earplug. I can hear right through the foam earplug, so the noise is still torturing me in one ear while I'm trying to listen to him.

Now there IS tutoring in the student center, but I rarely have time to go there. Anyway, I don't have to worry about that for a while now. I'M FREE! HAPPY SUMMER BREAK! No more torture, no more loudloud, stanky world, all I get to do is sleep, eat, maybe watch TV is it's actually quiet for one day, roleplay on my MMO/MMORPG games. I'll only go out to swim in the pool where I can go underwater to block out the screaming children. That's why I can still enjoy going swimming. The water blocks out the Boise for my ears for me. I'm still taking my brother to school until next Friday, though. Anyway, FREEDOM!

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

I see. Ask and look for as many video resources as you can.
Ask for permission to record the person lecturing. Then, you can listen to the lecturer later on and have the lecture repeated to you at your own time so that you can catch on to important things and have practice for becoming acclimated to the speed of others' talking.

For the vet tech program, I'm gonna have to do it hands-on. I can only learn hands-on when it comes to that stuff.

 

[the_tortoise]

but as far as processing disorder, I assume that comes with autism as well like the sensory thing?

Central Auditory Processing Disorder is a distinct thing, it is not the same as auditory hypersensitivity -- you can have Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) without auditory hypersensitivity or any of the other kinds of sensory processing problems common to autistics.

An audiologist tests for CAPD.

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

I see. Ask and look for as many video resources as you can.
Ask for permission to record the person lecturing. Then, you can listen to the lecturer later on and have the lecture repeated to you at your own time so that you can catch on to important things and have practice for becoming acclimated to the speed of others' talking.

I guess I can do that next year when I start my new classes OR the vet tech program classes. SUMMER BREEEEAK YEAAH!

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

Central Auditory Processing Disorder is a distinct thing, it is not the same as auditory hypersensitivity -- you can have Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) without auditory hypersensitivity or any of the other kinds of sensory processing problems common to autistics.

An audiologist tests for CAPD.

I never thought of it as the same as hypersensitivity. I thought it was part of the processing disorder. In which, I actually thought it was part of autism. But when I was getting tested by an audiologist for my hypersensitivity, they only said my hearing was perfectly normal. They never mentioned auditory processing disorder or anything like that.

 

[the_tortoise]

I never thought of it as the same as hypersensitivity. I thought it was part of the processing disorder. In which, I actually thought it was part of autism.

Hypersensitivity is part of sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing disorder is all about sensory hypersensitivities and/or hyposensitivities -- your nervous system being more or less sensitive to incoming sensory information. Sometimes things get scrambled up, too, but the main symptoms of sensory processing disorder are the hyper- and hypo- sensitivities.

CAPD is not, as far as I know, a part of autism. It is a common comorbid, though.

I was tested for CAPD before I was diagnosed with autism (I do not have it, my testing results were on the borderline of clinical significance and the audiologist suspected that my auditory hypersensitivity that is part of global sensory processing disorder, as well as communication/language problems related to neurodevelopmental disorder were a better explanation for most of the difficulties I experience with processing speech and other sounds.) I had a hearing test first, but a standard hearing test is not the same as the testing for CAPD. Testing for CAPD involves other things, like if you can tell which direction sound is coming from, if you can hear words properly versus mishear them, if you hear words in the right sequence or if your brain garbles the sequence.

Some info about CAPD:

Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) - Centre for ADHD Awareness Canada
Learning About Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

Hypersensitivity is part of sensory processing disorder. Sensory processing disorder is all about sensory hypersensitivities and/or hyposensitivities -- your nervous system being more or less sensitive to incoming sensory information. Sometimes things get scrambled up, too, but the main symptoms of sensory processing disorder are the hyper- and hypo- sensitivities.

CAPD is not, as far as I know, a part of autism. It is a common comorbid, though.

I was tested for CAPD before I was diagnosed with autism (I do not have it, my testing results were on the borderline of clinical significance and the audiologist suspected that my auditory hypersensitivity that is part of global sensory processing disorder, as well as communication/language problems related to neurodevelopmental disorder were a better explanation for most of the difficulties I experience with processing speech and other sounds.) I had a hearing test first, but a standard hearing test is not the same as the testing for CAPD. Testing for CAPD involves other things, like if you can tell which direction sound is coming from, if you can hear words properly versus mishear them, if you hear words in the right sequence or if your brain garbles the sequence.

Some info about CAPD:

Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) - Centre for ADHD Awareness Canada
Learning About Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

Ohhhh ok.

 

[the_tortoise]

The audiologist i saw recommended I get an FM system for if I go back to school -- maybe it's something you could look into, too? The teacher wears a mic and you have headphones or earbuds that play the lecture into your ears and help to block out other classroom noises.

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

The audiologist i saw recommended I get an FM system for if I go back to school -- maybe it's something you could look into, too? The teacher wears a mic and you have headphones or earbuds that play the lecture into your ears and help to block out other classroom noises.

Talking won't block out the class noises, only music that's loud enough can. Plus, there's a risk of the mic making the high feedback noise, and -cringes- I can't risk that.. I'd end up in a total meltdown. Just thinking about that risk is giving me anxiety. Sorry.

 

[the_tortoise]

Talking won't block out the class noises, only music that's loud enough can. Plus, there's a risk of the mic making the high feedback noise, and -cringes- I can't risk that.. I'd end up in a total meltdown. Just thinking about that risk is giving me anxiety. Sorry.

No apologies necessary! I understand what you're saying about why it wouldn't work and I would believe you even if you hadn't explained why and just said, "Nope, that wouldn't work for me".

If it wouldn't work for you (or if you just didn't like the idea) that's not any kind of insult or anything personal for me

 

[AuBurney Tuckerson]

No apologies necessary! I understand what you're saying about why it wouldn't work and I would believe you even if you hadn't explained why and just said, "Nope, that wouldn't work for me".

If it wouldn't work for you (or if you just didn't like the idea) that's not any kind of insult or anything personal for me

Thanks for understanding.

 

[Xerces Blue]

Online Courses can be very difficult for some.
I'm a good example of this.
There are just so many distractions.
So many things I'd rather do.
My experiences with online courses come from 2 sources.
I had to make up a couple courses at the end of high school in order to graduate and then every year of my time in the military.
I learned the difference between bad online courses and REALLY bad online courses.
If it doesn't have a pre-test it falls under the "REALLY BAD" category.
But I also think if the class is so big you can't customize the class to the capabilities of it's members it's a waste of time *Cough Most Public School*