Mastodawn

Listening to @kc1mur @allianceradio YouTube video where he is talking about the challenges of #CW when you have Auditory Processing Disorder. Yup, right there with you. The tones constantly shift and change duration. And that is with perfectly generated computer sending. Doesn't matter how much effort I put into it. I can't decode Morse. It's neurological, not lack of interest.

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KC1MUR

@DragonBard @allianceradio The struggle is real. And demoralizing. It took over a decade before my wife finally believed that I wasn't deliberately being a wang every time I'd ask her to repeat. Certain tones and cadences are worse than others. Yet music (including commonly misheard lyrics) has never been a struggle, odd.

Thank you for validating, it means a lot.

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Ria 2d ago

@kc1mur @DragonBard @allianceradio

Auditory processing disorder gang! I haven't put in enough effort for CW to know for sure how I do there, but I do know that human voice is often a struggle for me (in person, video, radio, music, doesn't matter), more so if there's any sort of noise to sift through as well. I'm surprised at how many of us there are in radio tbh, though I gotta say, it's a relief to know I'm not the only one!

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Alliance Amateur Radio Network 2d ago

@petrosophia @kc1mur @DragonBard And trying to explain it to someone who doesn't experience it is futile. It gets even harder when you only catch that one key word in something someone says to you, ask them to repeat it, they look at you frustrated, then they don't repeat what they say, they say it entirely differently and now you struggle to reconstruct the meaning around a keyword they didn't repeat.