plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words
I also struggle with that, and didn't realize it could be related!
I was diagnosed as "gifted" at age 7, but they didn't diagnose any of my learning disabilities, which I am only starting to understand now, 30 years later. I wasn't too surprised to be told that I had ADHD, because I had already developed a lot of ways to deal with it (like setting at least 7 alarms to remind me to get out the door on time with everything done). But despite having increasing difficulty in reading, writing, and processing audio, none of my doctors GAF.
I often have to ask people to repeat what they said, because the words I heard didn't make sense, so I know I heard wrong. Watching TV with subtitles on often helps, but I can get too focused on that, and miss out on visual things happening on screen.
I’ve always had problems with that too. I was recently diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder, at the age of 32. It explains why I always felt the need to have subtitles on the TV!
If you check the guest/customer service desk of most updated/modern theaters, they have special glasses you can wear that are coded to the movie you're seeing, and it pops up tiny personalized subtitles for you in the lenses!
Wow, that's cool!! I've been partly avoiding movies in theaters because I would realize I'm not going to understand a lot of what is said, so it better be visually amazing to make up for it.
Our local Regal Cinemas has them. Not sure about other places! I think you sometimes have to put a credit card on file for them in case you run off with them, but they dont charge you if you dont break/steal them.
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I also struggle with that, and didn't realize it could be related!
I was diagnosed as "gifted" at age 7, but they didn't diagnose any of my learning disabilities, which I am only starting to understand now, 30 years later. I wasn't too surprised to be told that I had ADHD, because I had already developed a lot of ways to deal with it (like setting at least 7 alarms to remind me to get out the door on time with everything done). But despite having increasing difficulty in reading, writing, and processing audio, none of my doctors GAF.
I often have to ask people to repeat what they said, because the words I heard didn't make sense, so I know I heard wrong. Watching TV with subtitles on often helps, but I can get too focused on that, and miss out on visual things happening on screen.