Sometimes cant understand a word a person says. This happen to you?

[Alacrity]

Have you ever been in a meeting or with multiple people and it suddenly sounds like the person is speaking a foreign language?


It happens to me about once a week. Normal meeting or sometimes at a party. Someone will be talking. I'll be following along fine. Then suddenly I can not understand a think they are saying. It's not like I cant hear them or they are mumbling. Just cant understand a thing they say for a few sentences.
Then everything is fine.


I've tried googling it, but nothing shows up.
Is there a name for this?
Does everyone get it?
Anyone ever heard of it?

[poky]

I haven't had it happen to me, what what you're describing sounds like it could be a transient receptive aphasia? Receptive aphasia is when you can't connect language with meaning when you hear/see it, and various kinds of transient aphasias seem to be possibly migraine symptoms, from what I'm reading? I know I get the visual migraine symptoms (scintillation, blurring, etc.), sometimes, without the migraine pain. Maybe it's something like that?

[ballibeg]

Was our Glasgow pal in your meeting?

https://youtu.be/8k7VoFiagfs

[Thirteen]

Can you get in to see ENT & then neuro?


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[HouseofWool]

If you don't need a referral from your primary, I wouldn't start with neuro.

[Alacrity]

I haven't had it happen to me, what what you're describing sounds like it could be a transient receptive aphasia? Receptive aphasia is when you can't connect language with meaning when you hear/see it, and various kinds of transient aphasias seem to be possibly migraine symptoms, from what I'm reading? I know I get the visual migraine symptoms (scintillation, blurring, etc.), sometimes, without the migraine pain. Maybe it's something like that?

I do get migraines once or twice per year. It's always in slightly stressful situations (project meetings)
I think you hit the nail on the head with "transient receptive aphasia"
I dont think its ever gone more than a minute. But a minute is a LONG time in a conversation.

Thanks for the diagnosis. At least now that I know what it's called I can do some research.

[Alacrity]

Interesting information I thought I'd pass along.

I am also complimented* with Dyslexia, which has been described as a 'visual receptive aphasia'. Not sure why the auditory aspect has manifested itself in the last 5 years, however.


* Before much was known about dyslexia, I was labeled a 'functional illiterate' who 'best avoid anything having to do with reading or writing' as a career.
Sometimes when you tell someone they can't do something, they go right out an do it. I actually enjoy my dyslexia, I see things others don't.

[Windsurfer]

Have you ever been in a meeting or with multiple people and it suddenly sounds like the person is speaking a foreign language?


It happens to me about once a week. Normal meeting or sometimes at a party. Someone will be talking. I'll be following along fine. Then suddenly I can not understand a think they are saying. It's not like I cant hear them or they are mumbling. Just cant understand a thing they say for a few sentences.
Then everything is fine.


I've tried googling it, but nothing shows up.
Is there a name for this?
Does everyone get it?
Anyone ever heard of it?

In some settings the background noises can made it very difficult for me to follow a conversation if the group table is large enough, or sometimes it just a topic that I don't know much about and I am unfamiliar with the terminology. However, absent those two conditions, I have not experienced the temporary phenomena you seem to be describing.

[MrsK]

Checking in. Did you ever follow up on this?