I experience something like audio dyslexia. At the phonetic level, jumbling syllables vs whole words.
Reading the other comments, seems like many others learned to cope by consciously buffering, allowing parsing and comprehension to catch up.
I'll often have multiple tentative interpretations. So then I intentionally replay the sounds I think I heard, as well as wait for more context (because a lot of speech and conversation is redundant), before settling on an answer.
I eventually trained myself to not habitually say "What?" I eventually figured out that just pisses people off.
It'll be hysterical if I've had something like ADHD all this time. Would explain so much.
Reading the other comments, seems like many others learned to cope by consciously buffering, allowing parsing and comprehension to catch up.
I'll often have multiple tentative interpretations. So then I intentionally replay the sounds I think I heard, as well as wait for more context (because a lot of speech and conversation is redundant), before settling on an answer.
I eventually trained myself to not habitually say "What?" I eventually figured out that just pisses people off.
It'll be hysterical if I've had something like ADHD all this time. Would explain so much.