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my therapist said something interesting today - she said that i speak more slowly and struggle with language "more than a woman of your age and education level should."

i'm not upset. i just think maybe it explains why people treat me with impatience and annoyance in real life when i'm talking, and i do so much better online with people than i do in person.

we were discussing wolf's recent diagnosis of central auditory processing disorder, inter-hemispheric type, and how i want him to also be tested independently, with a treatment program set up; the school's audiologist, who tested wolf last week, says he personally doesn't believe any interventions help, and so won't recommend any.

i mentioned that i think i also have CAPD, and that i was already diagnosed when i was a teenager with the "foundation" for it. that is, because i kept hearing what people said incorrectly, and so many of my friends and co-workers were getting pissed at me because of it, i had gone in for a hearing test. the audiologist said at that time, "your hearing is extremely good. you just have this "thing" that you can't differentiate people's voices from background noise."

i never thought anything more of it besides the fact that it made life more difficult, and i've always cupped a hand behind my ear to help me hear people, but have never heard that it was a major symptom of a language processing problem that has other repercussions.

so... the end result is that wolf and i both will be getting some extensive testing - for both ADD and CAPD. supposedly just the ADD testing takes about 5 hours.