One of my sensory issues is that I have difficulty processing multiple streams of audio at once. My sense is that this is common among autistic people - but does anyone have a name for it, or a specific diagnosis? Just "audio processing disorder" or something? Which pops up tons of resources on kids, nothing on adults...
I'm looking both for better self-understanding and some information to help me advocate for a quieter environment in my office.
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Michael 🏴☠️ Fleet
in reply to Izabela, Soon Again A Runner • • •Same. A sort of audio information overload. And when it happens, I cannot process any of the audio.
This + SDAM = I truly hate meetings, and find them to be tediously useless for me.
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Izabela, Soon Again A Runner
in reply to :ACNH_Joy: June :autism: • • •the other big thing, at least in my experience, is that if I am in a noisy environment, is that it takes a lot more work for me to focus in on something like a person talking to me. Which tires me out, so even if I'm enjoying a conversation with someone in such an environment, that extra work is hard.
And it also increases exponentially if the conversation involves more people because of the need to jump focus from person to person and things get ugh
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Dr.Nick
in reply to :ACNH_Joy: June :autism: • • •I have told people that my Loop Earplugs are hearing aides.
Which they are, as they aid my hearing.
Listening to too many things at once, with no filtering ability, has caused me multiple shutdowns and meltdowns. I'll do anything to help address the issue.
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I have 3x Quiets, 2x Experience, and 1x Engage.
The Engages are shite. Quiets and Exp are both great
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Dr.Nick
in reply to :ACNH_Joy: June :autism: • • •did you not find the engages to really muddy speech?
I got an RMA / second pair and they were exactly the same.
The exp are my favorites. I sleep with the quiets in, and they really help
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Shiri Bailem
in reply to Hasty Unicorn • •@Hasty Unicorn You pretty much gave the name for it, Central Audio Processing Disorder (CAPD). It's a subset of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) both of which are *very* common among autistic people.
SPD is the reason we have hypo and hyper sensitivities. This being where we have certain things we're over-reactive to (harsh lights, "bad" textures, sounds causing meltdowns, etc) and others we're under-reactive to.
CAPD is specifically a difference in the audio processing center of our brains where it's not as good at translating sounds into information. Often we're hearing foreground and background noise at the same priority, jumbling the two; or sometimes we're talking to someone and a sequence of sounds in the words they say just can't be converted to language for seemingly no reason at all (processing fails on the specific set of sounds, changing enunciation suddenly makes it crystal clear but volume/speed does not)
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in reply to Hasty Unicorn • • •I was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder specifically because of what you're describing, and later diagnosed as Autistic and ADHD.
This is all in the U.S., so maybe there are other names for it in different countries, but that might be helpful anyway. Low Gain Hearing Aids is a common treatment for APD, hopefully some of this information is helpful to you and/or others!
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Zumbador
in reply to Hasty Unicorn • • •There are sub categories to auditory processing disorder, but the various resources list different ones.
For example
https://www.gemmlearning.com/can-help/central-auditory-processing-disorder/info/types-of-apd/
https://www.vocovision.com/resources/parents/auditory-processing-disorder/
Auditory hypersensitivity — poor tolerance for background sounds.
Phonetic decoding — an inability to process language at natural language speed.
Auditory integration — slowness integrating things heard with things seen.
Prosodic — processing inefficiency that makes it hard to think while listening.
Organizational deficit – not recording information in specific order.
Types of Auditory Processing Disorder - Gemm Learning
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Bill Taroli :neurodiversity:
in reply to Hasty Unicorn • • •OMG YES THIS! Two is really hard. But get three or four going and it all blurs together, for me, like a shrieking cacophony so loud I can’t even hear myself screaming. I feel I should carry an air horn to use like a water pistol when people “train” cats.
What I do at work is use headphones to drown ambient noise. When in zoom on headphones I drop volume or remove one or both ear cups from my ears. 🤷🏻♂️
#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #SensoryOverload @actuallyautistic
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William Canna-bass
in reply to Hasty Unicorn • • •I remember having a meeting at one of my jobs where we were in this giant echoing Hall with lots of machine noises, and I had to face my ear towards the speaker because I could not process what he was saying without doing so.
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