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I notice that once I start reading I really enjoy it, but it’s always a chore to even bring myself to pick up a book. Even ones I’ve already started reading and enjoyed, I find difficult to pick back up. I’m not doing anything useful with my time either, my attention keeps getting hogged by YouTube et al :(
If you’d like, two strategies:
I always keep a book on the John, and will pick it up any time I’m in the room. Gets me through that “first half is dry build” some books have, even if it’s a paragraph at a time.
Other is audiobook+mindless game. I spend a decent chunk of my afternoons when I’m in this mode just playing Peglin or more recently Haste muted while the book goes.
This book on the John I’ve done since childhood, it’s got me through some dense stuff, I’d definitely recommend it. Hope it helps!
always keep a book on the John
Then when do you Lemmy?
The experience of AUDHD; sometimes reading entire books in one sitting while other times not being able to read a sentence without having to reread 40x
Now try having both at the same time while only being diagnosed for one. What a wonderful childhood that was.
My AuDHD brain used to do both as a kid…
…Au as in Gold?
AuDHD = AU-tism + ADHD
As someone with both, it’s either feast or famine, depending on how interesting my brain finds it.
I read nearly cover to cover the National Electric Code because I wanted to rewire my house and I found the standards fascinating.
I could not read through my AWS training materials because AWS is boring AF.
i love how it wasnt a catchy book, romance, or whatever that peaked your interest.
It was the National Electric Code.
The national electric fucking code.
this is autism in full effect.
- Someone who is reading “Excuse me, sir, would. you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?”, the biography of a man who started a chemical company. I know, thrilling.
I don’t know if I want to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide mr chemical man, but I am interested, why should I?
Piqued your interest, FYI.
Lol yup. Peak 'tism moment.
the misery of searching for stories that catch your interest, finding a rare nugget of gold, reading the entire fucking 400 chapters in a few days, and being unceremoniously dumped back into reality and faced with the ocean of absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing.
absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing
Harry Potter, GOT, Hunger Games etc… ?
Edit: Read the other comment, made me chuckle x)
no i’m talking about royalroad stories, though to be fair a depressing amount of them are just “what if harry potter but with a litrpg system with 0 fucking explanation, a somehow even more insuffrably inherently special and amazing protagonist, and worse writing?”
like i accept that most stories are going to be garbage because writing is hard and i’m a picky reader, but holy shit i have to trawl through the “most popular” pages to find anything even tolerable
Yeah you’ve basically described how I read books I enjoy.
Harry Potter, Red Rising, The Lunar Chronicles, The Hunger Games…all books I blew through in days and immediately had that “it’s all over” funk afterwards where the world feels so much less interesting than the one my head was in for the last glorious 72 hours.
And the better it is, the harder the fall. I’m five months into a very long RPG series, but starting to approach the end. The hangover from this one is going to be absolute hell.
If you want a wild ride, read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Not only will you reread the same sentence for over 40 minutes, it’ll never make a lick of sense. Ever.
If you read, specifically the second book by Kaloophid, Some More of Gods Greatest Mistakes the main series starts to make a lot of sense.
My ADHD makes it so I can’t read books for shit anymore, even though I would go through several every week as a kid. For anyone else having this problem, one thing that sometimes helps me is to listen to someone read the text while reading along. This could be an audiobook, but there’s also an extension for Firefox called “Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader” to get through pdf files.
This could also just be from ADHD burnout. Many ADHD kids make it through to adulthood by burning up 10 times the energy of our peers. By the time we do get there our reserves can be absolutely shot. I haven’t made it back to reading books yet but I have found that I can sink into new non-digital hobbies like horticulture. My guess is that it uses a mental energy well that I haven’t tapped yet, at least not completely.
Cannot stress this method enough especially for information heavy books. Listening while reading along can be slow but I understand and remember the information so much better
Cannot stress this method enough especially for information heavy books. Listening while reading alo
That’s really interesting. I’ve never tried this but I imagine it would take a bit of practice to sync your reading speed with the audiobook speed, but that could just be me. One thing that has helped me in the past is trying to voice each character distinctly in my head (this is the only way I made it most of the way through Trails in the Sky) but that also slows my reading way down. Which now that I put two and two together probably has something to do with it 😅
Is there anyone on earth left without self-diagnosed adhd?
Strong assumption it’d be self-diagnosed… the heck?
You are aware that you’re replying to a post in the ADHD instance, right? Why are you here if it offends you so badly that people share memes they can relate to?
