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Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
Disability Support / by Peepsqueak
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 March 18th, 2019
...See more I'm wondering if anyone here also suffers from APD? For those who don't know what it is, it is to do with your hearing. Your brain and your ears don't work together properly to distinguish sounds so people can find it hard to follow conversations or hear when there is background noise. I've suffered from this all my life but was only diagnosed with it last year. It's the main cause of my social anxiety and why I've developed a phobia of speaking to people on the telephone. I've made a fool of myself so many times on the phone and in front of people because I misheard them or had to pretend that I heard them but later got caught out. I can't go out to clubs or loud places or with groups because when there are too many sounds or voices that everything becomes muddled. Unfortunately there's no cure for APD, there are small training exercises but they don't seem to be working for me. It seems to be getting worse. There's not a lot of information about this on the internet and it's hardly known about here in the UK and I don't know anybody else who has this condition. Its so sad to think that I might never overcome my social anxiety because of my APD.
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