Selective hearing refers to the way people only hear a part of what someone is saying — often, it's what they want or expect to hear — and miss out on the rest.
This tends to cause conflict, riffs and miscommunication in relationships.
It is also very annoying and RUDE.
Sophie Hawker 's selective hearing makes holding a conversation with her a time job.
Hym "Ultra-Omega Psychology Genius! That entire segment about selective empathy is downstream from my thing! How am I THIS GOOD at everything!? I have to have like 1 million citations at this point. Wait, is it 937 kills or is it 937 PhDs? Assists? No, that would suck. 937 isn't a lot of assists...So, it's gotta be PhDs. 937 PhDs! The single greatest psychologizer in the history of humanity!"
When you’re in an online argument and someone only mentions a part of your argument that they can use against you to make it seem like you lost is a selective reader.
I was in an argument with someone Twitter who only used some parts of my texts to counter argue. What a selective reader!
Noun: The culinary problem of having unlimited wants and needs for after dinner sweets but only a finite number of choices.
Don't get mad at me for eating the last piece of homemade apple pie, you had plenty of time to eat it but instead you used poor dessert selectivity and chose to eat a handful of tootsie rolls.
When those annoying girls on snap choose what to reply to and just leave you on open for 48 hours otherwise
You: Bro why does she leave me on opened sometimes but sometimes she wants to reply
Bro: Honestly she’s just selective replying at this point.
Someone makes homemade Mac n cheese but they run out of a certain kind of noodle. So there's several different kinds of noodles.
Selective Noodle Syndrome is when you're picky and you dig through only getting a certain type of noodle out.
"She's digging through the noodles. She has Selective Noodle Syndrome."
When someone is being jumped (using someone stronger than the each group member individually) the person would choose one person through hating them the most or just at chance and give selectively kick his ass.
"Jason was jumped by 4 people but gave Micheal a selective ass beating"