Text-to-speech is your friend here.
I use a website called “speechify” but there are a lot of options.
Still helps to read along with of, but having that auditory input on tandem with visually reading will keep you on track like you’ve never experienced.
I have to read out loud to myself to finish a book or an article.
It has made my reading comprehension go through the roof. And I didn’t understand that about myself for my first 45 years.
Lucid Reading?
Ambien
I think it could be argued for a state of hypnosis, like how people drive for miles but just don’t remember how they did it entirely.
Difference is, you clearly drove and got there safely. You didn’t read the words on the page, you just moved your eyes across ink blots.
I was a professional driver for 20 years. I can attest that autopilot is a real thing.
It’s easy to monitor traffic on either side but end up daydreaming and miss a turn.
I’ve been out of the transport industry for five years now and I still occasionally find myself auto-piloting to places I used to deliver to. It’s so weird.
I drove black cars for a bit, I’ve definitely just taken the airport exit once when I was out of it. Glad I’m not alone.
Yeah. It’s not a big deal, but how you handle it really matters. (This is advice for anyone else reading; I’m sure you know.)
If you miss your turn because you’re daydreaming or whatever, just keep going. DO NOT swerve three lanes over to an exit or whatever other dumb shit. You fucked up. Deal with it without putting other people in danger.
It already has a name: ADHD
“someone isn’t focused, they’re surely suffering from a neurodevelopmental disease”
fuck this fucking pillpusher propaganda
Sure bud, tell me about the condition I’ve had all my life and how my life didn’t get immeasurably better when I finally got diagnosed and treated by a professional in my 4th decade of life.
So ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Trump voter?
Sometimes a headache is actually a sign of a fatal cancer that needs to be operated on.
MOST of the time it isn’t.
I don’t expect you to understand the difference.
It’s absolutely an ADHD symptom if it happens every time a person tries to read. Whether or not they need medication is a separate issue.
Oh yes, anyone who ever feels even the tiniest bit of infocus is ADHD. /ultrahypermegasupersarcasm
Learn about the condition you’re talking about. You’ll get angry and start spamming shit at me, but that’s all before you’ll actually read anything more than a few sentences. I’ve read dozens and dozens of studies on this. You wont’ even understand what the word “neurodevelopmental” means.
Headaches don’t mean you have brain cancer, does it**?**
Headaches are a symptom of strokes, pretty much always. It doesn’t mean that you should think you’re having a stroke if you get a headache.
Now I know that when people say read something they don’t mean read the words but not the meaning. They mean read it and comprehend it.
Disinterest
No I’ve done this when I was interested. This happens to me when I’m stressed about something and my brain goes off to think about it even though my eyes are going through the motions with the words on the page. Then I have to start again.
I did find this paper where somebody used the term “mindless reading”
Smallwood, J. (2011). Mind‐wandering while reading: attentional decoupling, mindless reading and the cascade model of inattention. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(2), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00263.x
I think we’ve got some drivers around here who drive like that.
I can sometimes do this without my attention even shifting. I’ll mentally read every word individually for a while, but forget to put them together to actually understand them.
I do that stupidly often when reading stories.
I vary between spacing out, zoning out, or the already mentioned autopilot.
“School”
That’s called “School”.
This was a symptom of ADHD that I discussed with my doctor when I got diagnosed tbh
If it happens all the time I would say so. This happens to me when I’m tired so I just figured it’s my brain lagging
Is it an actual ADD symptom? I do this all the time.
Yep. It was actually one of my diagnostic questions.
Yes, but many things are symptoms of ADHD, but no single symptom alone is a sign of ADHD.
It was for me, I’m not sure if it’s universal. Consider talking to a professional if you’re concerned about it.
I’m already middle-aged, so changing the way my mind works at this point would probably cause more harm than good. I’ve already figured out how to live productively with the unique workings of my psyche. Thank you though!
My wife was diagnosed at 42, it’s changed her life for the better. She is still the same person, adhd quirks and all, boy she has a better understanding of her behavior, and more control.
Right on. I’ll think about it.
we know we’re hardwired by a life of struggles and workarounds but our brains have more plasticity than we give ourselves credit for
Yeap, one of the BIG ones according to multiple doctors I’ve seen
Either that or dyslexia can apparently cause this too, according to my dyslexic friend in HS
I think I do have some low-grade dislexia, but not enough for it to cause any significant issues. Just occasionally, especially if I’m tired, I’ll read things completely out of order.
I actually thought I had dyslexia for a while because of this, plus if I don’t read correctly (which for me requires memorising each word in a sentence, then interpreting it as a sentence, as opposed to reading each word and interpreting it by itself), I get the order of words mixed up
I could do this, reading out loud even. And not know what the fuck I just read for the last 10 minutes.
And yes, I have ADHD.
Is this an indicator or straight up ADHD specific? Because this is me constantly
Surely there’s a very long German word for it.
It 's not that long, I think it is called “Leselücke” (reading gap).
If you want, you could call it “Lesegedankenwanderungsamnesie” (reading wandering thought amnesia) 🤔
Attentiondefißithyperactivitydißorder
More like Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung.
By the way, using the ‘ß’ as you did would force the preceding vowel to have a stretched pronunciation.
And I don’t know about you, but in my opinion defeeßit and deeßorder sounds awful.
While this is more common for people with ADHD, it can happen to anyone.
As an ADHD person, sight reading is actually my shitty superpower. I don’t understand it, but my difficulty is just starting the book. But once I’m in it’s pure hyper focus.
True, but I only get so many opportunities to use that silly ß
Get in the habit of replacing “fuck” with “sheiße” and that problem is solved!*
*People might think you’re weird/a Nazi for this, even if you’re actually learning German, because people are weird
Scheiße*
I think the whole “using German means you’re a Nazi” thing will have to change now since there’s a much bigger country embracing Nazism…
Justified usage.
at least 35 syllables long and you’ll forget what your reading halfway through the word.
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom
I’ll bet there is - some of my friends call it “Leseschlaf” (reading sleep), which seems fitting.
I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.
I call it “reading with my eyes but not my brain”, but I’m one of those weirdos who doesn’t think you need to turn every god damned niche thing into a new word or initialism just to gatekeep against those who didn’t know the new word just made up.
It’s not that deep bro relax
how exactly do you think jargon happens “bro”?
Because it’s easier to refer to something with a single word or abbreviation than to have to explain the entire concept?
It’s more slang than jargon either way.
