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[tiaras-and-books]

I took two years of college ASL just because I'd always been interested in it. I loved it, and secretly found it easier on my brain than spoken communication, even though it was a second language. Partway through my second year I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. No wonder I feel like ASL conversations are a little easier for me - they ARE.
I joke often that if I could magically make everyone able to sign, or if that Google Glass project would work on developing captioning for everyday life, I'd have it made.

[nycfem]

I prefer signing to speaking too.

If you don't mind, could you describe more about what an auditory processing disorder is.

Originally Posted by tiaras-and-books

I took two years of college ASL just because I'd always been interested in it. I loved it, and secretly found it easier on my brain than spoken communication, even though it was a second language. Partway through my second year I was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. No wonder I feel like ASL conversations are a little easier for me - they ARE.
I joke often that if I could magically make everyone able to sign, or if that Google Glass project would work on developing captioning for everyday life, I'd have it made.

[ProfPacker]

here is a link regarding auditory processing disorder:

http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/U...s-in-Children/

[cricket26]

[Rockinonahigh]

Strobe lights,flashing lights and light shows that lots of places have will really do a number on me.I can go from mildly dizzy to full out passing out,so I do my best not to be anywhere near them.Last year in Vegas for the pool championships one night we wen't to a show that had a wild light show at the end of the performance,I ended up so sick people thought I had drank to much even though I hadn't had anything at all.I wen't back to my room but ended up spending the night puking up my guts along with a slaming headache that took me nearly a full day to get rid of...needless to say I didn't go to anymore shows.

[tiaras-and-books]

Originally Posted by cricket26

Oh I love this video! I had it saved on my phone for months, until my phone suffered a tragic accident. Sean Forbes' music is kind of hit or miss for me, but I -love- this one, it's my favorite. I really like how his videos combine sound, written-out words, and ASL.

[Rockinonahigh]

Once when I was working for the casino,one of my co workers flaged me down in a rush to go from one part of the resturaunt to another.He ask me for more marinade so I made a batch then brought it to him.He said he wanted maranara sauce,I told him next time to slow down then tell me or wright a note the words were to much a like.This happened a few times till we worked out a system to get the right thing when it was needed,everyone kept a pen and paper so they could wright the notes if needed.For whatever reason I guess doing that was to much out of their reach cause I did hear some gripe about it,not from the head Chef but the regular kitchen workers thought it was to much to do.Once one of them said why did the casino have to hire people who were( ret---ed),I didn't hear this I wasn't there but it got back to H.R then the folks who said and agreed with this had to go to a four day work shop about respect in the work place,some quit before it was over a couple did learn a few things but were put on the late shift.WE never had another issue after that.

[tiaras-and-books]

Originally Posted by nycfem

I prefer signing to speaking too.

If you don't mind, could you describe more about what an auditory processing disorder is.

The short version is that my ears hear everything perfectly, but my brain often can't interpret that into useful information. For me personally that translates into things like not being able to filter out irrelevant sounds, or getting the sound of somebody talking to me but having no idea what they said. Often when people talk to me it sounds like they're slipping in and out of a foreign language, or just entirely speaking a foreign language. For whatever reason I just can't process sound very well a lot of the time.

I'm a pretty decent lipreader and most of the time I get by with that combined with whatever I can glean from what I'm hearing. Any time I can supplement auditory stuff with visual backup I do a lot better. My college set up captioning for my classes right after I was diagnosed, and by the end of that semester I'd managed to go from an F (pre-captioning) to an A in one of them, just because I could actually understand what was being said.