anyone with central auditory processing disorder?

Last year I was diagnosed with this central auditory disorder at the age of twenty six. All my life people thought I was either not listening, audtistic, or A.D.D. A few years ago a neighbor even asked me if I was mentally retarded. I also have a processing speed disorder which really effects me in the area of math. I have a hard time learning as fast as other people and it frustrates me at times. Thank God I have my talents in art and reading , especially cartooning. When I was in elementary school not many kids wanted to play with me so I spent most of my time drawing and reading. :)

You might pick up the book “When the Brain Can’t Hear” by Teri Bellis. It is a wonderful layperson friendly book by a leading audiologist. She talks about adults in the book too.

Beth

I don’t know if this is common in auditory processing disorder but I seem to do better learning a foreign language than I do my native language ( which is English). I did well in Japanese class two years ago but i think because my writing was the best in class and i learned to read lips to pick up on subtle differences of certain words. Does anyone else have this problem? Just last week I did it again when a classmate of mine tried to teach me Vietnmese. She said I seemed to be picking Vietnmese up fast but I had a hard time pronouncing an English word when I tried to teach her some English.

Hi all. I have diagnosed myself with capd. I’m sure as I go along I’ll find out just how accurate a diagnosis it is.

Amber, I guess capd must manifest itself differently from person to person, because my impression is that learning a foreign language is very difficult for people with capd. It sure is for me!

I have “When the Brain Can’t Hear” and recommend it. (Though I think it’s a little dry. I got impatient and put it away 3/4 of the way through! Maybe I’ll pick it up again.)

One way I experience it: I can’t understand anyone else talking to me if someone is talking to me on the phone. This used to be an item of contention with my mom and me. I’d be talking on the phone to big sister who lived 2,000 miles away, and Mom would be nattering away in my other ear, dictating questions for me to ask my sister. As a result, I couldn’t hear either of them, and Mom had the gall to get mad at me. Oh, well. We didn’t know back then. It’s nuts when the kids follow me around when I talk on the phone. Sometimes I lock myself in my bedroom.

Verbal directions are nearly useless for me. I’m a map fiend, my husband says. Complicated dirctions on how to get somewhere or how to do something or how to work a machine…I’ve got to back it up in writing, usually, or it will be impossible or near impossible to do it.

I am a slow learner. I have a bad memory for names. I tend to space out after a while at parties when listening to someone else talk. It’s like my brain just gets tired of focusing on what the person is saying. When I was a little kid I loved to sing. I’d remember the tune, no problem. But usually couldn’t decipher the lyrics. So I’d make up nonsense lyrics.

I also don’t do chit-chat well. I can’t make jokes. I can’t tell jokes. Though I love comedies, especially slap stick/visual humor. This seems more Aspergers than LD, though!

But then, there seems to be a lot of overlap for people with these various disorders. LDs, adhd, ocd, mood disorders/bipolar, Aspergers.

:evil: :twisted: :oops: -4 y.o. ds wanted me to add these.

:D I did well in Japanese because I had the best writing and written grammar in the class. The writting is tough to learn because it is more elaborate than English writting and there’s three kinds of writting you must learn ( hirigana, katakana, and the most difficult kanji) Also found that I can read lips well even though I am not deaf :lol: .
The worse part is listening to music. I have to read the lyrics or I’ll misinterperate the song. Especially when it comes to music from Britain i have a hard time understanding accents. At least it doesn’t stop me from listening to George Michael and Morrissey though ( and Morrissey’s music is the most misunderstood even by people without an auditory disorder :lol: )