• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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    Then you re-read it but you keep telling yourself “I already read that” and skip chunks of paragraphs.

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      I really hate reading large swaths of text because of that. It feels like writers get too wordy, and I just want them to get to the point, so I skip ahead.

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          Thats because they get to the point.

          Unless its jargon, like the part thats bragging about all their bullshit features.

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        Shit like this is why I always read the SparkNotes/CliffNotes for a book instead of the book when I was in high school. The English teachers always claimed that tests would be based on things not in the summary, but I always managed to get by.

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      You kinda have to accept that you need to reread the entire thing and will only notice where you left off once you’ve read up to that point again

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      I gave up on reading books because of that. Reading a few sentences at a time online is fine, but if it’s just pages and pages, I can’t do it.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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        I went with audiobooks and that really helped. The other thing I did is get a kindle, then change the font to OpenDyslexic (I’m also dixlesic) and make the line spacing wide and font size big. Like that there are less words per page. So if I get distracted and zone out on a page it’s less.

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          I’m not dyslexic myself but I’ll scream “OpenDyslexic is amazing” at everyone with an e-reader forevermore

          I looked into the idea behind it and I think the same ideas in its design that help dyslexics focus and not spin stuff around also helps ADHDrs “flow” through the text as well

          At least, it does for me