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Thanks to APD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder), most songs sound like that

by sdfjkl 14y ago

Thanks to APD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder), most songs sound like that to me (I can only understand fragments of most lyrics unless I google them). I love music and listen to a lot of it, but most of the time I like the sound and not the words.

Mz 14y ago
I suspect that when I was younger, I had a similar issue without realizing it. I used to think all lyricists were higher than a kite any time they wrote anything. After getting a diagnosis late in life for a condition I was born with and getting healthier, as I got healthier, songs began sounding a lot more prosaic to me. Some guy that I thought was trying to catch "a moon train" was really catching the Noon train to meet his girlfriend. Overall, most songs became drastically less intriguing and whimsical-sounding. Fwiw, songs by The Beatles still sounded the same to me as always. I have wondered if that somehow explains their popularity, that there is something about their music which is fundamentally easier for more people to hear correctly and, thus, it was more widely appreciated and struck fewer people as gibberish.
- sdfjkl 14y ago
  Interesting, what condition was this and how did you recover from it? P.S.: If you miss those whimsical-sounding lyrics, there's always Purity Ring (band).
  - Mz 14y ago
    Oh, I have atypical cystic fibrosis -- in short, I have a long, long history of ear infections (and I am still wrestling with how to explain how I recovered, which I am trying to document at healthgazelle.com). Probably not directly relevant to your situation. Though I spent a lot of time on alternative med sites. Off the top of my head, my recollection is that some people with capd benefit from magnesium. My son, who suffers less from capd than he used to, says chocolate helped him. Edit: iirc, chocolate is high in magnesium, so that might be why chocolate is one of the things which helped him. Edit2: I have a long, long history of all kinds of cf related issues, but I think the ear infections are the likely connection to my history of miss-hearing things.
    - sdfjkl 14y ago
      Interesting about the magnesium - I like chocolate, almonds and cashew nuts. All high in magnesium.
      - Mz 14y ago
        We tend to crave the things we need. If you need magnesium, you likely also need calcium and then there are a couple of other things you need to absorb calcium properly (I believe vitamins K and D). You could do a little googling, give it a whirl, see if self treating for a presumed chronic magnesium deficiency helps with your capd-like symptoms. Best of luck.
vecter 14y ago
That's pretty interesting. I feel like I have a hard time understanding people in group settings. It's not uncommon that I have to ask people to repeat themselves, and I feel I do this much more than other people. I'm also not great at understanding song lyrics, but I feel like most people can't figure them out either (based on all the faulty lyrics out there). In one-on-one conversations, I'm usually fine though. Is this what you experience, or is it much more dramatic?
- Mz 14y ago
  People with auditory processing problems are negatively impacted by background noise and tend to supplement their understanding of what was said with lip reading, often without consciously realizing it. So they tend to do much better in one on one discussions, which tend to have less background noise and are typically more conducive to lip reading than group settings.
  - sdfjkl 14y ago
    This. Inability to separate out speech from background noise. I cannot have a conversation in a pub, club or bar where there's loud background music or noisy chatter. I can understand people perfectly fine in a quiet setting. Therefore I avoid noisy places, which does negatively impact social life (especially in younger years).
artofrawr 14y ago
I am generally unable to comprehend the lyrics of most songs. For years I thought it was called "The Fire of Downtown" and was baffled when I found out it really was "The Final Countdown". In addition to that I am unable to understand anyone in (semi)noisy environments like bars, restaurants, etc. and am notoriously bad on the phone as soon as there is the slightest background noise on either end. All that, despite having excellent hearing when it comes to non-verbal sounds. Until now I didn't even know APD existed, so thank you for mentioning and linking it here.

by sdfjkl 14y ago

Mz 14y ago

I suspect that when I was younger, I had a similar issue without realizing it. I used to think all lyricists were higher than a kite any time they wrote anything. After getting a diagnosis late in life for a condition I was born with and getting healthier, as I got healthier, songs began sounding a lot more prosaic to me. Some guy that I thought was trying to catch "a moon train" was really catching the Noon train to meet his girlfriend. Overall, most songs became drastically less intriguing and whimsical-sounding. Fwiw, songs by The Beatles still sounded the same to me as always. I have wondered if that somehow explains their popularity, that there is something about their music which is fundamentally easier for more people to hear correctly and, thus, it was more widely appreciated and struck fewer people as gibberish.

sdfjkl 14y ago
Interesting, what condition was this and how did you recover from it? P.S.: If you miss those whimsical-sounding lyrics, there's always Purity Ring (band).
- Mz 14y ago
  Oh, I have atypical cystic fibrosis -- in short, I have a long, long history of ear infections (and I am still wrestling with how to explain how I recovered, which I am trying to document at healthgazelle.com). Probably not directly relevant to your situation. Though I spent a lot of time on alternative med sites. Off the top of my head, my recollection is that some people with capd benefit from magnesium. My son, who suffers less from capd than he used to, says chocolate helped him. Edit: iirc, chocolate is high in magnesium, so that might be why chocolate is one of the things which helped him. Edit2: I have a long, long history of all kinds of cf related issues, but I think the ear infections are the likely connection to my history of miss-hearing things.
  - sdfjkl 14y ago
    Interesting about the magnesium - I like chocolate, almonds and cashew nuts. All high in magnesium.
    - Mz 14y ago
      We tend to crave the things we need. If you need magnesium, you likely also need calcium and then there are a couple of other things you need to absorb calcium properly (I believe vitamins K and D). You could do a little googling, give it a whirl, see if self treating for a presumed chronic magnesium deficiency helps with your capd-like symptoms. Best of luck.

vecter 14y ago

That's pretty interesting. I feel like I have a hard time understanding people in group settings. It's not uncommon that I have to ask people to repeat themselves, and I feel I do this much more than other people. I'm also not great at understanding song lyrics, but I feel like most people can't figure them out either (based on all the faulty lyrics out there). In one-on-one conversations, I'm usually fine though. Is this what you experience, or is it much more dramatic?

Mz 14y ago
People with auditory processing problems are negatively impacted by background noise and tend to supplement their understanding of what was said with lip reading, often without consciously realizing it. So they tend to do much better in one on one discussions, which tend to have less background noise and are typically more conducive to lip reading than group settings.
- sdfjkl 14y ago
  This. Inability to separate out speech from background noise. I cannot have a conversation in a pub, club or bar where there's loud background music or noisy chatter. I can understand people perfectly fine in a quiet setting. Therefore I avoid noisy places, which does negatively impact social life (especially in younger years).

artofrawr 14y ago

I am generally unable to comprehend the lyrics of most songs. For years I thought it was called "The Fire of Downtown" and was baffled when I found out it really was "The Final Countdown". In addition to that I am unable to understand anyone in (semi)noisy environments like bars, restaurants, etc. and am notoriously bad on the phone as soon as there is the slightest background noise on either end. All that, despite having excellent hearing when it comes to non-verbal sounds. Until now I didn't even know APD existed, so thank you for mentioning and linking it here.