MischievousMochi
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combing through the forums I saw mention of Auditory Processing Disorder or APD. I tried looking for more info about it through the search feature, but no results popped up.
I looked up some articles and their explanations hit on the mark for me. There are certain instances where I seem to show APD. My dad’s always said I was a poor listener and to work on my active listening skills. But sometimes when I’m with my immediate family and they are talking for an extended amount of time I either mentally clock out or my ears shut off completely. With the latter, I can hear the sounds coming out of their mouth, but somehow am not processing their words. When this happens I try to focus on their mouth and try lip reading to see if what I think their saying matches the syllables, pattern, or inflection of what they are saying.
Other times I tune out completely and somehow unconsciously heard what was said. For instance, my stepmom may say something to the group, say my name and ask me a question. On more than one occasion the answer I gave was verbatim what someone else I the conversation had said. I’m not sure if my line of thinking was with their or I unconsciously heard it and thought it was my own thought.
When in loud places, like a pub or bar, if I’m in close quarters and there are multiple conversations happening around me I cannot hear what the person I am focusing on is saying. Even if they are literally sitting next to me. I still go with the lip reading method, looking at others for social cues on how the conversation is going, or listening to someone who has a voice that carries. The kind that reverberates. Like when your holding a glass of water you can feel the vibrations. They’re not loud, they just have a deep voice that carries. Those friends of mine seem to turn my ears partially back on and I hear what they say and try to fill in the blanks of the other person.
With my current job I have different techniques to retain info during the onboarding process. When my mentor is doing one-on-one training and explaining the steps to fix the solution or what a device is I try to turn the words into visual images. The weirder the image, the more memorable it is. I learned that from a memory technique from some Netflix show my sisters showed me a few years ago. It’s similar to the memory palace technique.
On a side note, I am extremely visually orientated and if I have driven down a road before I can recall enough details to know where I am and where to go from there. Other times with older neighborhoods near my old middle school, driving past certain homes brings back vague images of a math equation, history or literature fact. I only realized until now that I used those routine school commute places as a memory palace, but the image is so disconnected from time that I’m not able to fully recall it.
When doing virtual training I try my best to transcribe what the presenter is saying, make a cohesive bullet point list notes, and clean it up afterwards. I realize now that I could not focus in college classes so I had taken notes this way. I went from typing 45 to 80wpm from all the practice. I used this technique at my previous job when in a smaller group meeting with more important information to retain. My notes have bee used in group chain mail to keep certain people accountable for their words during a meeting when they tried to backtrack later to get out of certain responsibilities. Recording conversations wasn’t allowed due to security reasons, but a word doc that is encrypted and password protected within a virtual machine that requires double authentication such as an app is more secure.
I browsed through the apps mentioned in the second link below and see one is similar to Simon says. I use to play that game when I was little and put the app on my iPod back in high school (back before they were phones). I could get up to 15 sequences, but thinking back on it I’m unsure if I focused more on the colors of the sequence, drew a virtual mind map connecting the sequence, or focused at all on the sound sequence.
(Apologies for any weird spacing or spelling errors. I types all this put on my phone during lunch break. Which is why it reads more as a stream of consciousness)
Despite my ramblings I’ve got a few questions:
Here are some articles that have good follow up articles:
I looked up some articles and their explanations hit on the mark for me. There are certain instances where I seem to show APD. My dad’s always said I was a poor listener and to work on my active listening skills. But sometimes when I’m with my immediate family and they are talking for an extended amount of time I either mentally clock out or my ears shut off completely. With the latter, I can hear the sounds coming out of their mouth, but somehow am not processing their words. When this happens I try to focus on their mouth and try lip reading to see if what I think their saying matches the syllables, pattern, or inflection of what they are saying.
Other times I tune out completely and somehow unconsciously heard what was said. For instance, my stepmom may say something to the group, say my name and ask me a question. On more than one occasion the answer I gave was verbatim what someone else I the conversation had said. I’m not sure if my line of thinking was with their or I unconsciously heard it and thought it was my own thought.
When in loud places, like a pub or bar, if I’m in close quarters and there are multiple conversations happening around me I cannot hear what the person I am focusing on is saying. Even if they are literally sitting next to me. I still go with the lip reading method, looking at others for social cues on how the conversation is going, or listening to someone who has a voice that carries. The kind that reverberates. Like when your holding a glass of water you can feel the vibrations. They’re not loud, they just have a deep voice that carries. Those friends of mine seem to turn my ears partially back on and I hear what they say and try to fill in the blanks of the other person.
With my current job I have different techniques to retain info during the onboarding process. When my mentor is doing one-on-one training and explaining the steps to fix the solution or what a device is I try to turn the words into visual images. The weirder the image, the more memorable it is. I learned that from a memory technique from some Netflix show my sisters showed me a few years ago. It’s similar to the memory palace technique.
On a side note, I am extremely visually orientated and if I have driven down a road before I can recall enough details to know where I am and where to go from there. Other times with older neighborhoods near my old middle school, driving past certain homes brings back vague images of a math equation, history or literature fact. I only realized until now that I used those routine school commute places as a memory palace, but the image is so disconnected from time that I’m not able to fully recall it.
When doing virtual training I try my best to transcribe what the presenter is saying, make a cohesive bullet point list notes, and clean it up afterwards. I realize now that I could not focus in college classes so I had taken notes this way. I went from typing 45 to 80wpm from all the practice. I used this technique at my previous job when in a smaller group meeting with more important information to retain. My notes have bee used in group chain mail to keep certain people accountable for their words during a meeting when they tried to backtrack later to get out of certain responsibilities. Recording conversations wasn’t allowed due to security reasons, but a word doc that is encrypted and password protected within a virtual machine that requires double authentication such as an app is more secure.
I browsed through the apps mentioned in the second link below and see one is similar to Simon says. I use to play that game when I was little and put the app on my iPod back in high school (back before they were phones). I could get up to 15 sequences, but thinking back on it I’m unsure if I focused more on the colors of the sequence, drew a virtual mind map connecting the sequence, or focused at all on the sound sequence.
(Apologies for any weird spacing or spelling errors. I types all this put on my phone during lunch break. Which is why it reads more as a stream of consciousness)
Despite my ramblings I’ve got a few questions:
- Are there any other techniques or technologies to assist adults with APD?
- What are the steps for getting an official evaluation for APD?
- What are available brain training programs that take advantage of brain plasticity?
Here are some articles that have good follow up articles:
