ADHD memes

I thought too fast and now I'm sick

to be honest, it might be just me but i find this even more oberwhelming. its like the text is saying "THINK FAST, READ FAST GO GO GO GO" and yeah idk its more overwhelming

Now I read it twice longer

I used to use a browser extension to do this, mostly liked it until I tried to convert all my ebooks to it as well. It’s works, but it technically splits the words into two objects in order to change the font, which makes searching the book nearly impossible because typing a whole word will no longer find instances of it, instead you have to search for either half. Only an issue for ebooks, but it sort of turned me off of using this in general. Also I believe it’s “technically” copyrighted. I remember encountering something that wanted me to pay to use this. I found alternatives, but still, just left a bad taste in my mouth even though it helped. It did help me naturally read faster even without it, because rather than directly processing each letter I can do a sort of exclusion based search of my vocabulary as I process each letter. After 2 or 3, sometimes 4 letters, and with context I can correctly assume the rest of the word and move on.

This really doesn't feel like an ADHD exclusive thing.

What about this is "bionic"? And what part of the brain is the "brain center"?

I'm skeptical about how much the bolding makes people read faster vs placebo of just telling people they should be reading faster. Also as other people stated, comprehension is what counts.

10's era WAOW!!! posting still survives!

This also works with neurotypicals tho...

I can read it twice as fast and remember less than half of it.

My reading speed was never the problem. It's the reading comprehension and memory that limits me.

Thanks now I'm reading the sentences second half first...

Holy shit, did I just get diagnosed?

This just hurts my brain 😭

The fuck

So what's the plugin to switch to this by default?

This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.

I love this in principle but I can’t use it myself. I‘m a very fast reader by default, basically already doing what the highlighting tries to make you do, without it needing to be there. The highlighting disrupts that for me. I end up stopping at every word and partially jumping back and forth. I do show this to people on occasion that aren’t as lucky as me with their reading speed and most said it helped them. Not all though.

Book's Story e-reader supports this by the way:

I've found with this type of text that if I try to read it normally, I struggle to process the change between the start and end of each word, and read much more slowly. If I try to read quickly though, it flows, as if I'm skimming the words but still understanding them properly.

It's a very strange feeling :)

You already read like this. After the first few weeks of you learning to read as a child you probably didn't read each word letter-by-letter already

I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.

This picture is yelling half of every word at me

This "tech" has been out for a while but I don't know that we can easily get it on our phones and computers for general reading :(.

Anyone know?

I'm not ADHD, but that particular passage using that particular font and those particular colors seemed to speed up my ability to read the text. But when Staments posted below (https://lemmy.zip/post/45655234/20636698) using what looks like the same methodology, it ended up being an impediment. I struggled to even get through the first sentence.

So I have to wonder if there's more to it than just randomly putting a character or few in bold at the start of each word -- like maybe it's also highly dependent on things like the font being use and making sure to use specific words and phrases that are conducive to this technique.