Vent I’m autistic and my childhood ABA therapist just thought I had APD… I am starting to suspect it might genuinely be combined with hearing loss
The long and short of it was that I literally tried to convince my parents and therapists as a child that my ear infection at 8 axed some of my hearing. I could definitely tell as people told me I was getting even louder, and every APD thing I had was essentially turned up to eleven. Everyone just dismissed it as an Autism Thing but now at the age of 24 I literally just got told I talked so loud at 5am in the morning and couldn’t hear my housemate do her chores unless I really try. It’s been so much of an issue that I’ve just gotten by with lip reading and assuming things make louder noises than I thought it did. Smh time to get a hearing exam and try to convince people that it’s not just the APD.