Auditory Processing stuff less known presentations (even among people with ADHD/Autism):
1. Audio Queuing
a) latent queuing
b) recognition
c) override
2. Music[not the film]
3. Cocktail effect

A Thread 1/
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Audio queuing is a term that I don't know if it has been used much if anywhere. People with this issue have discussed this briefly one here.

What is audio queuing?
Audio queuing is the process of taking speech from others during tasks we are concentrated on... 2/

a) The first presentation is what I like to call latent queuing. Our brains are processing a lot of information all the time - with increased sensory sensitivity we take a lot more in. When we are in hyperfocus, we will often queue what has been said to us to answer after. 3/

Sometimes this is can literally take hours to do. The information is stored somewhere by our brains, and then retrieved when it believes our queue of more important tasks is finished. I've answered questions hours later and had to give context. 4/

b) The second part about audio queuing is that quite often we will be accused of "not listening" - this is can happen, but there's also another thing that happens with queuing. We will ask you to repeat yourself or to clarify - it's suddenly all there after the first word 5/

The first syllable primes the memory that we didn't know about for retrieval. Unfortunately - this means we usually interrupt you to say "yes we have got it" - people then think that you are rude because you don't care. But we actually know what you've said. 6/

c) the third way the queue works is when we are typing information - this is known as overriding/interrupting for me. If you talk to me when I am typing. I will process your audio by typing out what you have said unconsciously. Your audio has hacked our language brain 7/

2. Music - Lyrical content is usually extremely hard to listen to and perform a task at the same time. If I am working - I need instrumentals. It's not that I dislike music for this reason, but because all of these queuing issues can happen while listening. 8/

I love music with lyrics, lyrical content and the ability to relate it to my situation - everyone does this. But I can't actively listen to music where I cannot relate to the content. Melody is important, but I'll listen to stuff 'outside' my genres if the lyrics are good 9/

3. Finally the cocktail effect - The cocktail effect is the ability to listen to only one conversation in a room full of people. For me, even a second set of people having a conversation close to me is a nightmare as I parse both the conversations at the same time... 10/

But this actually overloads our processing queue. We can get so lost in trying to process two conversations because we hear them with this weird queuing system. It gets to the point in large groups of talk there's so much processing that we cannot even hear our names... 11/

It's also another reason why group social situations like this are super draining - not because we don't care or like to socialise - but we are dealing with massive overloading of the one system we have that has a queue. Small groups with one person talking is better. 12/

The best way to communicate with us is one on one. We'll be able to read and understand you much better. We don't get lost by sensory overload. Our focus is usually on the person in front of us. Meetings actually make us tune out - if you can - make it an email.

Some unaccounted dysgraphia mistakes in this thread. Ehh...

Cc @erikaheidewald, this might be of interest.

Cc @AutSciPerson do you know of any studies aside from ones on the cocktail effect with Autism? I have tried to look into this but I can't find much.