Is there a reason my ASD DS constantly asks for everything to be repeated?

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DS who is highly verbal and ASD always asks for things to be repeated. He can hear perfectly though. But its such a nightmare. Any time he watched anything on t.v. or just the 3 of us sitting around talking he will usually turn to the other person and say "what's daddy just said?" and often about people as if they arent there in the room, oh dear! "what's that man saying?"

Any ideas?

is this to do with auditory processing problesm - ie he can hear perfectly well, but cant process the info properly?? i think this is an AS thing...

I was wondering this. Thanks for suggesting it as I couldnt really put it into the right words. He has either HFA or AS. So is it that he hears but does not understand the meaning? If you say something directly to him he understands it but if its a sort of 3rd party, like on t.v. or someone talking to me with him in the room, he has to have it all repeated.

i think thats it. we dont have rquest to repeat things, but some things just seem to float over him (10 yr old AS) (sort of tuned out). think this is all part of vestibular and propriociept things, and lack of coordination etc. starting to investigate therapeutic listening/snesory diet.

incidentally I have something strange (although not this) in that i seem to have a time delay between someone saying something and me hearing/processing it. i ioften ask a brainless question and then half way thoruhg my question realise i understood what the question was...

Just done that myself . Sitting in kitchen, eating, and I've had to ask dh to repeat himself almost every sentence even though there's nothing wrong with my hearing and nothing wrong with his speech. Can't always concentrate on more than one thing at once, so I can either watch, or listen, or eat, but not all three. And if in an echoey room, can't hear properly at all as it's all just one strange echo.

And sometimes I do need a bit of time to catch up with what someone's just said, even if I can make out the individual words, so a repeat does give me a bit more thinking time.

thanks very much amber and IS. I knew he couldnt help it but just didnt know if it was an ASD thing or not. I feel bad for him when we are in a room full of people talking and he asks me to repeat everything that is said for him. I dont like him feeling left out or behind.

Ah, if it's a room full of people, I can't hear someone at all. Over the years I've learned a bit of lipreading skill, and a lot of improvisation, but I always try to get them to the quietest corner possible to give me a chance to hear. No easy answer to that one - we often really can't pick out just one voice in a crowd, even if they're speaking to us.