CS,

Your struggle to read music sounds logical for a PCS subject. Your brain needs to visually process the image then translate that image to a key stroke/note, then motivate your motor control to play the note. This all while trying to keep proper time and play with the other 9 fingers. That is a lot of multi-tasking going on.

If you were a much more accomplished piano student, your brain could have likely skipped some of the middle steps and gone directly from image on the paper to muscle memory.

I have a difficulty translating speech with heavy accents. If I get customer 'support' in India, my brain needs to first decipher the accented words to an understandable word. Then, I need to make sense of the sentence. I can sometimes do this for a short period but usually get fatigued and irritable.

Thus, I just ask for a person who speaks English as their mother tongue. Some people will call me racist. Others will understand. Some even clean up their accent to a more understandable English.

I explain my request by stating that I have an auditory processing disorder that makes it difficult to understand accented speech. Some will know what this means. Others....

When we understand the mechanics behind some of our struggles, we can better adapt to our dysfunctions.