Wait wait wait one goddammed second. Is that a thing: hearing someone speak, saying "what was that?", then a moment after they start speaking, you suddenly know what they said the first time?

I discovered I had ADHD in my 30s and it was life changing. If this is another thing, then I'm in for another life changing discovery in my 40s.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can you guys also not hear anything when there’s background noise?

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

Noup, it all melts together into one indistinguishable noise. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse.

When a person who I've known for longer time is speaking loudly and clearly towards me and I'm ready to listen, then i can mostly understand what they're saying, of course if the environment is somewhat normal.

But if it's a new person, with a bad speaking mannerisms, that's already enough to make whatever they're saying completely incomprehensible, even in a quiet environment. Add in some noise and there's even no point to try to understand them.

[–] tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not a goddamn thing

[–] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Initially yes, but I'll get overstimulated trying to focus on a person's voice in 2 seconds

[–] BeN9o@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

I've never been diagnosed with anything but I had an interesting / uncomfortable experience the other day, went to a cafe with family, we were sat close to another table of 6, everyone was really loud and I felt totally overwhelmed, I noticed everyone on our table looking at me after a couple of seconds and I suddenly noticed the waitress had been speaking to me! Didn't hear a word she said until I focused on her. Its the first time I've experienced my brain just melting all the noise together.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve been accused of ignoring people quite frequently. I didn’t even know this was a thing. It’s always in a chaotic situation where my attention was elsewhere but people would be talking to me and I had no idea and I got accused of just being rude. I would never ever do that. I need to go look this up.

[–] NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

So embarrassing to stand in front of a door, ready to knock, but you can't because someone's making noise in the hallway and you won't hear the "come in" through the door now.