• june 🌿@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    yeah, this really took me out of reading for a long time. Just base-level “reading” where you kind of process the words as an activity, without actually absorbing anything.

    started medication recently, and hope that it’ll help with this. i miss reading ;.;

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried audiobooks? I have a far easier time with them and most everything you’d want to read is available in audiobook form

      • june 🌿@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I have a really hard time absorbing people speaking when i’m not interacting with them, and being understimulated and not knowing what to do with my hands when i am able to focus on audiobooks. I want to love them and podcasts, but they just aren’t it for me D:

        I’m glad they work so well for you and others, though!!

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          1 year ago

          Audiobooks are fantastic for me while riding a bike or walking on a treadmill - something to physically do and something to mentally do.

          I can’t just sit and listen to them though.

          EDIT: Oh and repetitive tasks - I got back into audiobooks when I started making chainmail again. Which reminds me… I haven’t finished that thing I started a year ago…

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Oh my god this perfectly describes it. It’s like the main reason I read so slowly because I don’t realise I’m doing that other weird kind of reading where you process and register the word but no the group of words arranged in to meaning. Suddenly I realise that started happening several pages ago and have to go back and start over.

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    1 year ago

    I tried audiobooks to get past this issue and instead ended up clicking the back 30s button a ton to see what I zoned out on. It’s so annoying when you really enjoy books.