I do this, but it’s a serious condition called delayed hearing, which you can’t read about anywhere, because I made it up.

I feel like people who make sweeping comments about innocuous behaviors to accuse others of psychopathy are psychopaths.

Also, why blur the profile pics but not the account handles?

Sometimes you figure out what was said after saying "huh".

Fuck you I'm buffering.

People who just ask a question out of the blue without engaging first:

How the fuck do you expect us to react? I gotta load the social processing module first.

When the ear-to-brain ping is 900ms

Sometimes it's because their brain wasn't set to receiving mode.

If someone says "hey" or my name before starting a sentence, I am paying attention. When they just start talking without doing that, I tend to miss the first part of the sentence.

Then I'm like "huh?". And sometimes I'm able to guess what they meant. Other times, not so much.

I dont think this guy, gal, or nonbinary pal knows what psychopath means

I have ADHD, I huh literally everything if I'm not paying attention to you.

So, one way my ADHD manifests is that my brain will just fucking fumble incoming sounds, particularly if I'm not paying attention beforehand. I've been near someone who just turned on the radio to the middle of a song and the music made no sense to me at all, like, it was just really weird noise that sounded like it should make sense but didn't, until it suddenly clicked and the music made sense again. With words, it happens all the time. Someone will just ambush me with words and instead of "hey, can you put the cap on the blender?" It becomes "hey, can you pole a cat fender?" Or sometimes it becomes just "dsfargeg". I know that nobody would say either of those things to me, so I use a dual track strategy of both playing with what I think I heard to try and make it make sense as well as asking the other person to repeat themselves. Sometimes, I work it out before they repeat it, sometimes I don't.

I wait when people say this. 100% people just need more time to process

Sometimes you gotta play the tape back real quick and re-listen with your echoic memory

Not gonna lie in my case it's a loading problem cause I hear and my hearing si fine but it comes up jumbled and then after 1 to 3 seconds the brain process what I heard.

Sorry, auditory processing disorder

huh?

They're making noise to fill the silence while they process what you said.

Fuck you, Shoresy!

My ADHD autist girlfriend does this all the time. She just needs a bit of extra time to process. I don't mind it and I usually don't need to repeat what I said. You get used to it.

I downloaded your speech to the wrong folder...

Sometimes it takes my brain a moment to realize that what you've said to me is actually Words and to assign a Meaning to those words, and that you haven't just done the human equivalent of when the Roomba drives back onto the charger.