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Habitually, because I struggle with auditory processing delay (especially if there’s any competing noises) and also understanding wtf people are on about (my semantic processing is weird and doesn’t seem to identify the context according to expected norms), I have learnt to guess what the appropriate response might be to what people are saying, usually by judging their facial expression and tone. The response buys me time to process what they actually said. These days I tend to ask people to repeat themselves more, but there’s only so many times you can do that. In a group I generally just allow myself to be behind in the conversation, which I think is part of why people used to think I was dumb as a kid when I was actually getting high grades in every class (sometimes the highest). The huge problem with my masking strategy is that the accuracy is probably only about 75%. So sometimes when on autopilot I laugh at something serious or don’t notice something was a joke lol.