I think I have a mild variant of this. If I'm in one conversation I can generally follow it even if it's noisy around, but it takes concentration. If there are several conversations around me, none of which I'm part of, it's hard to pick one because I'd have to sequentially concentrate on each to see which one suits me, which generally doesn't seem worth the effort. I generally get the impression most other people don't experience this same barrier.
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I think I have a mild variant of this. If I'm in one conversation I can generally follow it even if it's noisy around, but it takes concentration. If there are several conversations around me, none of which I'm part of, it's hard to pick one because I'd have to sequentially concentrate on each to see which one suits me, which generally doesn't seem worth the effort. I generally get the impression most other people don't experience this same barrier.