Auditory processing differences

• “Somehow there is something very odd about my sound-memory. I think that is possibly a result of auditory processing differences. . . .

• For example, I sit in front of the television. It sputters and the electrical field hums slightly. That fluctuates, depending on how tired I am, what I have eaten, what colours the room is decorated in, if any petrochemical is used in bonding the carpet, etc. Then there are other sounds. The sea at least a mile away, that car going past, the other person in the room breathing, the dog puttering about. These all—particularly the air noises—fluctuate at different rates.”

• Lucy Blackman, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone, p 165