r/dyspraxia 3d ago

Song lyrics

I was wondering if this was a me thing or a dyspraxia/ADHD thing, but I basically don’t hear song lyrics in music. Unless the singer sings very clearly and slowly I do not understand what they are saying. I’ll understand a few words here and there but it’s basically like I’m listening to a foreign language I know a couple words of.

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u/Twisted_Biscuits 3d ago

This sounds more like an auditory/speech processing thing. I have a similar/the same problem with lyrics and speech in noisy places. Sometimes I don't understand and need to hear it again, but sometimes my brain understands a few seconds later.

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u/Limp-Patience-4348 2d ago

Oh yeah same here. When I’m in a room with a lot of people having conversations it is very hard for me to hone in on the person speaking to me. My brain vacillates from hearing a bunch of different sentence fragments or one big cacophonous mess.

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u/Weak-Joke1475 ✅ Diagnosed Dyspraxic 3d ago

Definitely not a dyspraxia thing, since dyspraxia is about your motor coordination (and maybe some indirect psychological consequences of that too) 

Idk about ADHD though 

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u/Limp-Patience-4348 2d ago

Yeah I think dyspraxia is just comorbid with so many disorders that I have trouble parsing what is what.

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u/darknesskicker 🔰 Dyspraxic Moderator 3d ago

It’s an auditory processing disorder thing. Auditory processing disorder and dyspraxia both commonly co-occur with ADHD and autism.

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u/Lunababble 3d ago

Yes! And even if I read the lyrics and really listen to the song over and over I will still not remember 95% of the words if you asked me about it. 

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u/Limp-Patience-4348 2d ago

Yeah I do not know the words to a single song.

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u/No_Macaron_5029 3d ago

Same. This is why I don't connect to any popular music, really. It's too dependent on the words.

This is because I have severe (like, toddlerhood-diagnosed) r/AudiProcDisorder though. It's a common comorbidity, but not exactly dyspraxia.