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Audio Processing Failures
Oct. 1st, 2024 01:22 pmI have trouble keeping up with any conversation I am not 100% engaged with at that time. Maybe this is, like, not terribly uncommon overall, but its been a bigger problem lately. I know audio processing issues was circulating as a side effect of ADHD on the interwebs lately (and I do have ADHD, to be clear), but regardless of the source, it leads to mild to moderate frustrations regularly. At low stakes, I can't take in new languages aurally because I can't parse them except at the slowest setting. Generally I struggle with any visual media unless there are subtitles, no matter the language.
Even live and IRL, sentences blur together to create or delete important context. If I am not paying attention to a person at the beginning of a statement, I often miss the end of it.
Yesterday/today is a perfect example. I was getting coffee for in the morning and we were talking about the sourdough bread my spouse had brought home from a coworker at work. In the middle of the conversation - one that I was participating in - I heard the phrase "We can have toast and eggs ~~~~ tomorrow". I even clarified, because my brain was on coffee fixing, and they said "Toast and eggs, for tomorrow's ~~~~"
My SO didn't say "tilde" four times. My brain had to fill in the gap because I failed to process it twice and didn't even realize. When I woke up, I made breakfast. When my spouse came down, I'd made toast from the sourdough and asked them how they wanted their eggs. They were bemused, and didn't know what I was doing. When I explained that they mentioned eggs and toast, and they said they planned it for dinner.
Obvious, of course, in hindsight. My spouse doesn't really like breakfast until they've been up at lesfor an hour or so, and by then they would be heading for work. I just... filled in the wrong answer. For their part, they were appropriately politely appreciative, and did eat some of the eggs and toast but they weren't, like, excited for it.
And I've now spent the day thinking about how much these little hiccups cause confusion in my world. It's affected the media I consume, and how I interact with the world. I didn't even want to write this as my first personal post in a while, but I this kept jabbing me in the back of the head.
Even live and IRL, sentences blur together to create or delete important context. If I am not paying attention to a person at the beginning of a statement, I often miss the end of it.
Yesterday/today is a perfect example. I was getting coffee for in the morning and we were talking about the sourdough bread my spouse had brought home from a coworker at work. In the middle of the conversation - one that I was participating in - I heard the phrase "We can have toast and eggs ~~~~ tomorrow". I even clarified, because my brain was on coffee fixing, and they said "Toast and eggs, for tomorrow's ~~~~"
My SO didn't say "tilde" four times. My brain had to fill in the gap because I failed to process it twice and didn't even realize. When I woke up, I made breakfast. When my spouse came down, I'd made toast from the sourdough and asked them how they wanted their eggs. They were bemused, and didn't know what I was doing. When I explained that they mentioned eggs and toast, and they said they planned it for dinner.
Obvious, of course, in hindsight. My spouse doesn't really like breakfast until they've been up at lesfor an hour or so, and by then they would be heading for work. I just... filled in the wrong answer. For their part, they were appropriately politely appreciative, and did eat some of the eggs and toast but they weren't, like, excited for it.
And I've now spent the day thinking about how much these little hiccups cause confusion in my world. It's affected the media I consume, and how I interact with the world. I didn't even want to write this as my first personal post in a while, but I this kept jabbing me in the back of the head.
