I hope you're medicated - it makes you closer to normal. Even normals have different types/styles of auditory processing (would you believe - cenuries back all these differences helped in the survival) - speeds.

Of yes, old people really need to listen to only 1 thing at a time too. And lets face it, you really shouldn't be be talking and watching tv at the same time. There is a reason they have you do one thing at a time in school. Just because our environment makes some things possible does not mean all those things are physically or mentally good for us.