Following @interaural 's post on the thread about the recent channel 4 documentary in which (s)he posts a link to an article which describes two experiments conducted by Anna Remmington
A sound advantage: Increased auditory capacity in autism - ScienceDirect
I have found a video of the second experiment that Remmington describes, in which a phrase (I won't say what it is - spoilers!) is repeated throughout in a noisy room with conversations going on. Here's the video, you can try it for yourself.
I found it impossible not to hear that phrase! It is loud and repeats itself - how can one not hear it???
I believe that this also linked to auditory processing disorder (APD), in which people find it difficult to make out speech over background noise. This is a difficulty that I have always had. I also found an online test for that (I don't know how accurate these tests are, further testing would obvioulsy be needed to be sure of having this condition), it has a video and questions after it, the speech was very faint, much fainter than the background noise and I could barely make out anything at all, and then there are questions based on the speech one is supposed to have heard, but I hadn't been able to make anything, so my score was 0/5.
It's no wonder I struggled so much in that noisy classroom and in social situations! I can't cope with background noise at all!
I remember that when I was younger, a boss called me into her office and told her that I must be hard of hearing and that I should go for a hearing test. I'm not hard of hearing, that's not the problem - the problem is not that I can't hear enough, but that I can hear everything!
A sound advantage: Increased auditory capacity in autism - ScienceDirect
I have found a video of the second experiment that Remmington describes, in which a phrase (I won't say what it is - spoilers!) is repeated throughout in a noisy room with conversations going on. Here's the video, you can try it for yourself.
I believe that this also linked to auditory processing disorder (APD), in which people find it difficult to make out speech over background noise. This is a difficulty that I have always had. I also found an online test for that (I don't know how accurate these tests are, further testing would obvioulsy be needed to be sure of having this condition), it has a video and questions after it, the speech was very faint, much fainter than the background noise and I could barely make out anything at all, and then there are questions based on the speech one is supposed to have heard, but I hadn't been able to make anything, so my score was 0/5.
It's no wonder I struggled so much in that noisy classroom and in social situations! I can't cope with background noise at all!
I remember that when I was younger, a boss called me into her office and told her that I must be hard of hearing and that I should go for a hearing test. I'm not hard of hearing, that's not the problem - the problem is not that I can't hear enough, but that I can hear everything!