Why do I mishear?

Your brain is programmed to detect words and will create them from barely perceived fragments of sounds - so depending on how the sound is presented to you, its frequency response and volume levels and the angle it hits your ears, anything is possible  

I used to love the "Maxell" adverts.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gib916jJW1o   or    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxELSzay2lc    

..... And if you are also lacking some information about the context in which the singer is singing, all sorts of interpretations become possible. If Annie was accompanied with a video illustrating her plight, either literally or metaphorically, you might begin to perceive her lyrics a bit more accurately.

I have a partner who tends to start talking without bothering to set the context. She seems to think that if she provided the context as long ago as an hour or two (or even longer) ago, that I am going to hear her speak and immediately remember the previous context she provided. My problem is that I have nearly always been through hundreds of different thoughts since she provided that context earlier, and so I have completely lost her plot. (So that's also my issue, which seems to be ADD.) If only she would say something like "Do you remember what I said ..... earlier about ..... ?", before she launches into one of her monologues. If I begin to ask questions to establish the context, I get accused of being unimaginative. Now if only i could just get the idea over occasionally that I am perhaps being 'unimaginative' about contexts, ......  because my imagination is constantly running all over the place. ;-) Arghh!

But then again, perhaps we are both neurodivergent. I have seen and heard some evidence of that recently.

yes that an adhd/add thing i experience that all the time. I tend to only deal in now anything in the past is mostly archived.

yes that an adhd/add thing i experience that all the time. I tend to only deal in now anything in the past is mostly archived.