Comments on: It’s not even going in one ear …

By: Farzaneh

Farzaneh — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:08:28 +0000

Very much worth reading:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=260

By: Steve Lee

Steve Lee — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:23:30 +0000

Heh, yeah it’s hard not to get frustrated with it. Our son is often the same and we read someplace it’s quite common in boys, something about too much going on in their heads to process auditory input. As a bloke that makes perfect sense to me

By: Daniel Williams

Daniel Williams — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:25:05 +0000

This sounds a lot like Auditory Processing Disorder, which affects how sound is processed in the brain, not the ear itself. I’ve had this since I was a kid, and I’m now 23 and haven’t “grown out of it” in the slightest bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

By: Ken Crandall

Ken Crandall — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:20:19 +0000

Hehe. Sounds like me talking to my 4-year-old. Reminds me of the line in Mosters, Inc. when Randall is asking Mike what will happen to the “Scare Room” when both hands on the clock are at 12:
Randall: “When the BIG hand and the LITTLE hand are both pointing UP, the scare room will be…?”
Mike: “Painted?”
So, whenever my son does this, I will say “Painted?” to my wife, and we both chuckle.

By: Richard Eldred

Richard Eldred — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:00:44 +0000

Yup, that used to be me to a tee when I was a kid. They (School councilors and various folks who ought to know) thought I had autism for the first few years of school, then ‘gifted’, then finally, a layabout slacker with ‘so much potential’. Flunked highschool, and now I’m programming NEC phone systems and looking at a very tidy pay-packet within a few years.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. He’ll probably grow out of it and learn to pay more attention to things. He might do well in school, he might flunk out. Keep him engaged and his brain working, it’ll ultimately end up more useful than anything else. Schools usually aren’t prepared much to deal with students like that.