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Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech?

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I don’t have an exact match to what your looking for, but a couple things come to mind.

Having “selective hearing” is when someone fails to recognize that someone (usually a partner or a parent) is speaking to them or fails to comprehend what was said, but is otherwise sufficiently capable of holding a conversation.

The implication is that they are able (or choose) to ignore questions and requests when they don’t wish to answer or undertake them.

“Willful ignorance” or “being willfully ignorant” is when someone refuses to engage in understanding something when given the opportunity or discounts arguments that challenge their presuppositions.

This isn’t exclusive to verbal communication but it does imply they are some sort of discourse that they are choosing to ignore.

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CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I just thought of Functionally Auditorily Myopic, but perhaps that is misleading.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t hear the comment because I need to turn down the music in my head to listen

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XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have ADHD and on the surface it looks like that, but I have something akin to auditory processing disorder, in two ways. Like sometimes I just can’t comprehend what has been said even though I can hear it. Also if I don’t bring my full attention to something I would think that I got the entire verbal command but actually end up not getting parts of it. To the point I ask my teachers to write on the board instead of dictating instructions.

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