Movie Quotes
I've come to realize that one of my favorite pass times is also a coping strategy, after a fashion. I love memorizing movie quotes. Funny or serious, good writing or bad, I find it fun to memorize them and pull them out of the hat, so to speak, when the occasion warrants it.
But I also suspect they help me in another way: I've suspected for a while that I have an auditory processing disorder. Despite being diagnosed with TS and OCD, I really don't tend to look for labels and tend to resist when people mention some habit or mannerism I have in that context. Even so, I've had enough quirks with verbal comprehension to make me suspicious. What's more, these quirks go back as far as I remember. This is not a new phenomenon.
One of those quirks is that if more than one person is talking, both voices come across as noise. I can't understand either one. Needless to say, places like malls and restaurants are utter torture. But even movies can be rough. If the sound track isn't well-mixed, I'll have an awful time understanding what is being said. If someone in the theater is talking, I might as well not even be there.
I'm beginning to suspect that my penchant for memorizing movie quotes is a way to deal with this. I like re-watching movies almost more than I like watching them. And by memorizing those parts of the dialog I can understand the first time through, the second viewing almost always leads to better understanding.
The flip side of this, though, is that I come across like a troll when watching a movie. One minute I'm enjoying things, the next I'm snarling at someone to be quiet. After a while I growl, stand up, and leave. That's what I've been told, anyway. Looking back, I'm realizing it's more or less true. I'd assumed if I couldn't understand what was being said, no one could. Wrong again.
So what to do? I love watching movies. But increasingly it looks like I'll be watching them alone, if only not to annoy those around me.
- Pencil
But I also suspect they help me in another way: I've suspected for a while that I have an auditory processing disorder. Despite being diagnosed with TS and OCD, I really don't tend to look for labels and tend to resist when people mention some habit or mannerism I have in that context. Even so, I've had enough quirks with verbal comprehension to make me suspicious. What's more, these quirks go back as far as I remember. This is not a new phenomenon.
One of those quirks is that if more than one person is talking, both voices come across as noise. I can't understand either one. Needless to say, places like malls and restaurants are utter torture. But even movies can be rough. If the sound track isn't well-mixed, I'll have an awful time understanding what is being said. If someone in the theater is talking, I might as well not even be there.
I'm beginning to suspect that my penchant for memorizing movie quotes is a way to deal with this. I like re-watching movies almost more than I like watching them. And by memorizing those parts of the dialog I can understand the first time through, the second viewing almost always leads to better understanding.
The flip side of this, though, is that I come across like a troll when watching a movie. One minute I'm enjoying things, the next I'm snarling at someone to be quiet. After a while I growl, stand up, and leave. That's what I've been told, anyway. Looking back, I'm realizing it's more or less true. I'd assumed if I couldn't understand what was being said, no one could. Wrong again.
So what to do? I love watching movies. But increasingly it looks like I'll be watching them alone, if only not to annoy those around me.
- Pencil
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