I started to have this issue when loud environment won’t let me understand what someone is saying after I got self discovered. I don’t know why it changed like that, before I was working in bars and pubs with dozens of drunk people inside yelling and screaming and it was fine, I took orders and everything. But recently I was sitting in clinic corridor with bunch of people and one of them was doing small talk to me and I didnt understood anything they said cos I was waiting for echocardiogram result and focused on thinking about that. But with phone calls its same bad as before, I never liked phone calls and often don’t remember whats been told after phone call is finished. Secretary of my doctor called me and said to do one small thing before my doctor phone call appointment but I totally forgot when I was supposed to do that small thing, at same day or at the day of doctors appointment. It also depends how clearly someone speaks. My doctor speaks very clear and logical and repeats instructions two times in different way. And she doesn’t even know I’m autistic its just her professional style I think.
I started to have this issue when loud environment won’t let me understand what someone is saying after I got self discovered. I don’t know why it changed like that, before I was working in bars and pubs with dozens of drunk people inside yelling and screaming and it was fine, I took orders and everything. But recently I was sitting in clinic corridor with bunch of people and one of them was doing small talk to me and I didnt understood anything they said cos I was waiting for echocardiogram result and focused on thinking about that. But with phone calls its same bad as before, I never liked phone calls and often don’t remember whats been told after phone call is finished. Secretary of my doctor called me and said to do one small thing before my doctor phone call appointment but I totally forgot when I was supposed to do that small thing, at same day or at the day of doctors appointment. It also depends how clearly someone speaks. My doctor speaks very clear and logical and repeats instructions two times in different way. And she doesn’t even know I’m autistic its just her professional style I think.