I have a poor auditory memory. I listen hard when someone is telling me a long story. I am incapable

[applegrove]

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of judging their remarks at the time. All I can do is use all my faculties to 'hear' them. Then I sometimes regret the total empathy I have given them, when I have had time to go over the conversation hours afterwards. How would you tell everybody in your life that this is an issue? It has been used by a psychopath in my past to make it look like I believed certain things. I'm now not so naïve that I am never completely unskeptical of people anymore. But this seems to have been an issue in the last week....that I agreed with something I don't actually agree with.

[Incitatus]

1. Is it more of a memory or an attention issue while listening to the story?

Do you find your mind wandering and not really listening?

[applegrove]

2. I have a short auditory memory. I have to use the rest of my mind to remember what

somebody is saying if they have a long story to say. I visually build a model in my mind as I am listening. So I don't have the capacity to judge what is being said because my mind is busy building a picture. I am a very empathetic person too. Which adds to it. I don't know how to say exactly to people that I have this disability, so I can give the wrong advice and it has been used against me.

[hunter]

3. I don't remember words unless I read or write them.

Emotional context yes, the words no.

I can recognize the sound of an engine that is slightly off, I can figure out what the dogs are about. But tell me more than three things to pick up at the grocery store and I'm hopeless.

Write it down.

[applegrove]

4. I use lists too though I don‘t write

things down in a day planner like I used to. Except for the grocery list, I‘m kind of winging it right now. I have a desire to be organic and practice remembering these days.

[Demo_Chris]

5. Perhaps modify your response. Instead of an opinion tell them you will give it some thought. nt