I’ve noticed i can’t listen. My mind drifts off in seconds or is just blank. I hear almost nothing that people say, in real life, on youtube, on tv… i can read simple things cause i hear it in my head. I can write 100x easier than i can talk. I can read easier than i can listen. Can u relate? I think its causing probelms.
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I have easier time reading and writing. Hard time speaking and listening. Sometimes while writing I miss a word or two. While speaking accidentally swap place of words. You can’t clap with one hand becomes you can’t hand with one clap. While writing this I missed with that comes before one. It would have become you can’t with one hand.
While speaking things can get messy. I mess up order of words. Can’t even show how it goes.
Makes me feel like an idiot in social situations.
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Im the same. Although ive precticed for years to listen properly and it seems to have paid off. Still cant hold an in person conversation to save my life though.
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I struggle. I zone out quite a lot if someone is talking for a long time.
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I am a great listener. I listen more than I talk.
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I zone out too.
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I used to struggle. I think it was mostly because of malnutrition. It improved a lot after I started eating decent and supplementing. I think also I had problems concetrating under the influence of coffee which I have replaced with green tea now.
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It’s hard to listen sometimes.
I need subtitles when watching TV/movies because I can’t understand what the characters are saying at times. Also, the subtitles are there in case I hear words that don’t belong— helps to focus on text instead.
Would be cool if there were subtitles for face-to-face convos as well 
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Doesen’t hurt to ask. “Do you mind subtitling what you’re saying?” 
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Maybe something like this :
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Wow. I have this exact problem too. This has been worrying me. Is this a SZ symptom? Like a cognitive symptom? Or an attention problem? I don’t understand.
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My pdoc is a great listener. She almost says nothing.
I can only listen if the conversation interests me.
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Idk which it is….it makes me feel like im brain damaged and i feel like i’d fail some kinda test but besides it being hard to talk i also feel like my mouth is on protest against words so i never told my doctor. My mouth doesnt even wanna speak full sentences. I dont get it. I can write full sentences.
It fluctuates. APs made it more difficult to concentrate. It got a bit better now. But I still drift of when I find the conversation uninteresting. Or I’m tired. Or in traumamode, thinking about things. It’s weird. And annoying. When I’m well rested and fed and relaxed I can listen well. But the limit of my concentration is reached more easily than in the past.
green tea has more caffeine than coffee @Mr_Hope
No, that’s incorrect. Where did you hear that?
Green tea has far less caffeine than coffee.
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Same here. I can read small text and even up to 1500 words if I get the opportunity to re-read. I can write, write, write my heart out but I struggle with reading what I wrote. Listening? Nope, I try hard but I either don’t hear it or I forget right away. Even watching TV is a struggle. I’m glad I can write still for work I am a marketing copywriter so I can do most of my job. When it comes to reviewing my peers work I struggle.
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my bad 
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Hey, no problem. I have been wrong plenty of times like most people. 
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