Could you repeat that?

Also me, but ADHD brain had me not listening to a word you are saying, distracted with active daydream thoughts.

I don’t know to to cope with ADHD I got other issues also but yea get distracted or the wife saying she needs something now I do it then forget what I was doing then get reminded of it.. sucks!
- Write everything down, format tasks in priority (routine, important, critical). Buy a Galaxy phone with a built-in stylus that writes on the always-on screen.

A collegue just told me after I repeatedly asked him to repeat himself as I didn't understand him that he always had the problem of speaking to quietly. After his wife told him he regularily tried to speak louder which lead to him speaking to loud and getting complaints on that. Now he's back at the old volume.

Went to a wedding recently. The entire reception space had speakers set to the same channel and volume as the dance floor. This was probably half the night for me.

Just lived through this for half a week.
Ménière's disease causing hearing loss + auditory processing issues + business trip and team meetings = me(me)

I had this situation once as a teenager and it was extremely awkward because the other guy asked me an actual question and I didn't understand anything and also not that it was a question and I just smiled. He looked at me like I was insane or something and I was so embarrassed I didn't even say anything about it. Thankfully it wasn't important or so but it kind of burned me for life so much that I now always rather ask 2-3 times if I didn't understand anything before answering. I think this helped, overall. It's really important to understand something before answering or emoting. ;) Asking to repeat something is not a problem at all.

It can become a problem when you asked for the second time and still didn't understand.

i love sensory processing disorder, hold on let me take 10 seconds to replay what you just said and figure out what the words were