I also have auditory processing disorder, and it’s terribly annoying. Mine mostly manifests as a lag in understanding. The number of times someone asks me something, I ask them to repeat, then right as they start repeating the question, it clicks and I answer. I got yelled at for it a lot as a kid.
Multiple conversations just overload my brain and I have to basically stop listening to anything at all or I have a panic attack.
Interestingly though, I can isolate a single Morse Code signal in a huge pileup quite easily. It mostly seems to affect human voices for me.
We should start an initiative to invite more scientists to better parties.
Who knows just how much stuff could already have been discovered?
I’m up to getting involved in the catering; you’ll always find me in the kitchen at parties anyway.
Ayo! Fellow neurodivergent Ham checking in over here. (though my morse dropped off real hard once I wasn’t actively working on it )
There are a number of studies I’ve seen that reflect this. This is a pretty small sample size one from this year, and here’s a meta-study from a couple years back looking at 25 other articles/studies. I’ve seen a couple more with similar results, though I’ll have to dig around my archive for hard links.
For sure every genderqueer person in my social experience is also ND in some manner, though that likely has some self-selection at play.
In fairness, there are professions where ND is the rule rather than the exception, my own being one of the prime examples. Probably behind engineering, physics and such, but medicine is right up there.
I tell parents of shy, introverted patients all the time, “Extroverts get all the credit, but introverts get it done. The QB may get the game ball, but the OL lets him do it.”
I often say I was so much happier to be at an engineering because the people had the same interests. Your comment makes me realize it was more than that.
I did get the impression that the women at college, who were about 1/12 the total at the time, didn’t get many dates despite the numbers advantage.
Uh, that’s because we were there to study. Who has time for relationship drama when the graphics course alone is sucking up 25 hours a week of your time?!
I have severe hyperacusis, and similar trouble separating sounds. I also have light sensitivity, and get migraines, and balance trouble, and nausea from flashing lights, moving lights, and rhythmic noises. It’s exhausing the amount of each of these.
I honestly haven’t been that active in it for a few years. When my ex got the house I had to return to renting, and landlords don’t like it when you punch holes in the building for feedlines and put up antennas for some reason. But it’s mostly a hobby for old men, I was close to the bottom age wise on the clubs I was in through to my early 40s
Yeah, I also wonder on the self-selection. I know a few NT trans folks but they tend to be binary and straight, which isn’t really a feature common to my friend group.
FFS. Can’t wait until there are no more vaccines ‘because they cause autism’.
Back before ‘screen time’, we looked at books instead of playing face-to-face with other children. It might be telling you something, but not what the the headline would make you think.
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I’m struggling to think of one… not… 
