It helped explain why no matter how many hearing tests I aced, I always needed subtitles and struggled to know what to do in class when theres a project and only a verbal explanation was given.Įven now, if someone is telling me something that i think is important, I have to tell them that either I cant hear anything or to send me an article on what theyre talking about bc i take so much energy just trying to understand what they're saying that by the end of the conversation, i retained none of what they actually /said/. The first time i noticed i might have something 'wrong w my hearing', it was in high school when some guy said a girl 'had s*x with an anaconda' and after my intial surprise at what the heck came out of his mouth, i realized he actually said 'without a condom'. It wasn't until recently that I pondered how much of these issues could be related to my ADHD and auditory processing. Or when the professor would play a 7th chord and we had to tell him what quality it was, I always "knew" the answer but my brain would often just go ? And I would be unable to discern it properly. I have some songs I tried to transcribe into a playable piano version for myself and I can't do a single measure, it is so difficult for me. I play the piano and whenever I meet or otherwise see people who can successfully play things by ear it blows my fucking mind. And when they eventually got more difficult and had multiple lines of music we had to transcribe? Absolutely not. It didn't come easily for most people but I know most of my classmates didn't struggle with them as much as I did. Oh my god I could never tell what the hell I was hearing. But when I had to do dictations for my music classes? Like, the professor would tell us the key and time signature and then play a tune that was several measures long and we had to correctly write down what we heard on staff paper. I actually did A capella when I was in high school, and when I'm singing I have no difficult staying in tune and can harmonize with something on the spot with little difficulty (not tryna flex lol). something that was written down/said over text (which idk how normal that is by itself, but damn it definitely impacts my life daily to a greater degree than the people around me), I need to look up lyrics for songs more often than not, etc.īut for music I have a decently good ear. For me it's weird, like, I don't have severe auditory processing issues, but I often have to ask people to repeat themselves, subtitles are a requirement when watching TV, I have a much more difficult time remembering things that someone told me verbally vs. Oh my god, I'm a music major and this is relatable as heck. But it took a lot more time and effort than it should have considering I had been a musician.īut my ears are fine. I did get better at it and that is easy for me and usually I can pick out chord qualities by listening, at least in simple songs. Eventually I could, but considering I already had known how to play an instrument for over 10 years at that point that was not something that should have been hard for me. I could hear if a pitch was higher or lower if there was a visual representation of it like sheet music or a fretboard, but I couldn’t hear if a pitch was higher or lower just by listening. This is the crazy part - as the basic first stages of the app, it would give you a pitch and and a second pitch and you had to indicate that the second pitch was higher or lower. But I have an especially weird one - I can read sheet music and have always understood how to find a higher or lower pitch on a visual instrument like a guitar or keyboard.īut when I decided to really try to get better at guitar and couldn’t listen do simple things like figuring out a strum pattern by listening to it I figured I must be missing some fundamental skills. Yeah I have to look up lyrics to songs so I can hear them when the song is playing, sometimes I have a hard time listening when people talk to me.
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