I think everyone follows this guide, regardless of whether or not they speak more clearly on the repeats.

Brace yourself for them suggesting you get a hearing aid instead.

Sometimes I just take half a second longer to process what I heard, which forces me to say "can you repeat that" immediately after they talked, only to them finally have a response. It's not cause I hate you, it's cause I'm dumb or some shit that idk why it's causing it. It was really bad for me in middle school, I used to joke with my friends I'm partially deaf or smth. So like please don't be an ass, if I did wanna hear you I'd just be like "cool I guess."

Yeah, that's true. I can hear super well, but my wires definitely get crossed when there's lots of other sounds. Hearing aids wouldn't help me, mostly.

If someone has to ask you a second time to repeat yourself, you should feel embarassed and apologetic, not them.

It's been 3 years lol

When 2 people who have 2 different native languages and are both not english, attempting to communicate via english

...i have absolutely no problem repeating myself for people who make a sincere effort at listening, which every one of my hearing-impaired friends do, including myself...people who interrupt with a 'huh?' mid-sentence, without even a moment to parse what they've heard, i reciprocate with exactly the same effort they commit to the conversation...

...social mooches are a boorish burden upon everyone around them...

Ah, the other person is pretentious! Got it

Or you mumble and refuse to work on speaking clearly and blame everyone else for it. But either way they don’t have to be suffering through you anymore so it’s a win win.

I have wild tinnitus. Parties are miserable to hear people.

In an emergency, if you really want to have the conversation with that person, after the second "I'm sorry what?" You can say, I'm sorry I'm having trouble concentrating, do you know where the bathroom is? Go hide out for 30 seconds, wash your hands, come back, I'm sorry about that, what were you saying? ohh wait, it's really noisy here, wanna [go for a walk|move to another room|move to the other side of the room]?

I don't know how to get people to speak in less than multiple paragraphs sometimes. Like I'm still processing sentence 4 and they are on the next chapter. And it's a massive run on sentence so it's hard to figure out which who, what they, when them, did what to who and how there's entirely someone else involved i just find out about

If I ask then to slow down they don't use less words between pauses they just use them lavishly slowly, so I just keep asking them to repeat themselves.

Sucks when it happens, I'm glad I don't regularly encounter such motor mouths