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You can get a hearing test. If everything comes back nominal, you might have a mild form of auditory processing disorder.

It's not too uncommon, and is tremendously common among people with ADHD, dyslexia, and people on the spectrum.

Whatever it is, I definitely have it. One thing that helps me a ton is just focusing directly on people's lips when they're talking in a noisy setting. I can't read lips (at all), but the extra little bit of visual information helps me a great deal with comprehension.




At the moment there is no real reliable procedure to diagnos APD. It is the, we tried everything else but we can't see anything wrong with you type of diagnos.




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