I can focus on both and am a man, but then I can talk and listen at the same time, I seem to have a nack at multi tasking which I've noticed in other people who are dyslexic, it's a weird thing to be able to do something your gender supposedly finds difficult, people often don't realize the benefits that come with the flaws in a slightly odd brain.
Visualisation apparently is another one, which make dyslexics creative and more able to learn by visualising problems than by seeing them on a page. Which is probably why I'm better at applied maths than pure. The disadvantages are palpable and annoying, such as poor sequential memory, bad spelling and sometimes an inability to learn maths. Suposedly all these can be overcome by retasking your brain, but it's not easy.
I am suprised that people can't listen to lyrics and the music at the same time, I'd never considered that this was difficult? Interesting...