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I am sure you have thought about it but since you didn't mention it, are your symptoms those of Asperger's syndrome? Asperger's is often thought of as a sensory

by spuz 9y ago

I am sure you have thought about it but since you didn't mention it, are your symptoms those of Asperger's syndrome? Asperger's is often thought of as a sensory perception problem and Aspies tend not to be able to filter out sounds from background noise.

rjsw 9y ago
Only one data point, but I find it much harder to filter out speech from background noise in my second language than I do when people are speaking my first language in a noisy environment. My guess would be that we have multiple ways of processing language that use different bits of our brains.
- opportune 9y ago
  I also notice that even though I can't read lips, I often find it much easier to understand what people are saying when I can see them. I think part of the reason speech recognition isn't generally at a human-level is that they don't receive the same amount or kind of data that we do. An interesting experiment might be to include a speaker's native tongue when trying to recognize their speech in a different language. I bet that speech recognition would be a lot easier on e.g. native Spanish speakers speaking English if you know to ignore, for example, the sound "e" when spoken before "st" or "sp"
  - twothamendment 9y ago
    My son was so good at reading lips that we'd play a game where we only mouthed words and he'd tell us what we "said". In school we let the teacher know he needed to see her say the words on a spelling test. In those younger years that was the only way he could tell the different in some sounds. The big one I remember was "th" and teaching him to look for the tongue on the front teeth. As he is getting older he relies less on seeing lips. I'm hopeful at some point he'll outgrow most issues.
noir_lord 9y ago
I took one of those online tests a while back that said if you get over 25 you need to see a specialist, I got 43. Not sure I have Asperger's though, I'm just a programmer who likes his own company.
- mickronome 9y ago
  One the pillars of psychiatrical diagnosis according so doctors I met, is that any kind of diagnosis or treatment is only to be judged by its ability to improve your quality of life. If you don't suffer in any way shape or form, it doesn't matter how many boxes you tick, if you feel fine there is no compelling reason to go through with diagnosis, except possibly if you have kids. Autism spectrum disorders are quite heritable, and it's a tremendous advantage to be aware of ones own psychiatric oddities when you raise a child with his or her own. I speak from experience, I wish I known about my ADHD-PI/ADD with a dash of Autism earlier. I am however very happy I got to know about it early enough to help me guide my daughter into a way of thinking that has helped her a lot. In general, without the knowledge that people on average might have a WILDLY different cognitive landscape than yours, it's very very hard to know which advice to take to heart, and what to completely ignore. With that said, I'm fairly well aware of what type of questions are on those questionnaires. If the test is legitimate, a result that high over the limit would probably include at least a few 'yes' answers to questions that usually have a negative impact of quality of life. Adding to that, in my experience people actually on the spectrum are the least likely to self diagnose prematurely, even when the answer is essentially staring them in the face. Anything that can improve quality of life a little is worth considering, because sometimes it's really hard to judge the magnitude of how it can help.
- dunnodonna 9y ago
  Hmmm I can relate to what you are describing. I have some of that and was diagnosed with ADD in my 30s and I am a woman. Diagnose and medication helped immensely. It's as if you can't process too much signal at once. There is such a thing as asperger's spectrum. I cannot deal with high-pitched noises and noise in general really disturbs me.
smsm42 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact question (do you have trouble understanding speech in noisy environments, etc.) on several Asperger and related self-assess questionnaires.

by spuz 9y ago

rjsw 9y ago

Only one data point, but I find it much harder to filter out speech from background noise in my second language than I do when people are speaking my first language in a noisy environment. My guess would be that we have multiple ways of processing language that use different bits of our brains.

opportune 9y ago
I also notice that even though I can't read lips, I often find it much easier to understand what people are saying when I can see them. I think part of the reason speech recognition isn't generally at a human-level is that they don't receive the same amount or kind of data that we do. An interesting experiment might be to include a speaker's native tongue when trying to recognize their speech in a different language. I bet that speech recognition would be a lot easier on e.g. native Spanish speakers speaking English if you know to ignore, for example, the sound "e" when spoken before "st" or "sp"
- twothamendment 9y ago
  My son was so good at reading lips that we'd play a game where we only mouthed words and he'd tell us what we "said". In school we let the teacher know he needed to see her say the words on a spelling test. In those younger years that was the only way he could tell the different in some sounds. The big one I remember was "th" and teaching him to look for the tongue on the front teeth. As he is getting older he relies less on seeing lips. I'm hopeful at some point he'll outgrow most issues.

noir_lord 9y ago

I took one of those online tests a while back that said if you get over 25 you need to see a specialist, I got 43. Not sure I have Asperger's though, I'm just a programmer who likes his own company.

mickronome 9y ago
One the pillars of psychiatrical diagnosis according so doctors I met, is that any kind of diagnosis or treatment is only to be judged by its ability to improve your quality of life. If you don't suffer in any way shape or form, it doesn't matter how many boxes you tick, if you feel fine there is no compelling reason to go through with diagnosis, except possibly if you have kids. Autism spectrum disorders are quite heritable, and it's a tremendous advantage to be aware of ones own psychiatric oddities when you raise a child with his or her own. I speak from experience, I wish I known about my ADHD-PI/ADD with a dash of Autism earlier. I am however very happy I got to know about it early enough to help me guide my daughter into a way of thinking that has helped her a lot. In general, without the knowledge that people on average might have a WILDLY different cognitive landscape than yours, it's very very hard to know which advice to take to heart, and what to completely ignore. With that said, I'm fairly well aware of what type of questions are on those questionnaires. If the test is legitimate, a result that high over the limit would probably include at least a few 'yes' answers to questions that usually have a negative impact of quality of life. Adding to that, in my experience people actually on the spectrum are the least likely to self diagnose prematurely, even when the answer is essentially staring them in the face. Anything that can improve quality of life a little is worth considering, because sometimes it's really hard to judge the magnitude of how it can help.
dunnodonna 9y ago
Hmmm I can relate to what you are describing. I have some of that and was diagnosed with ADD in my 30s and I am a woman. Diagnose and medication helped immensely. It's as if you can't process too much signal at once. There is such a thing as asperger's spectrum. I cannot deal with high-pitched noises and noise in general really disturbs me.

smsm42 9y ago

I'm pretty sure I've seen this exact question (do you have trouble understanding speech in noisy environments, etc.) on several Asperger and related self-assess questionnaires.