The lighter side of ADHD
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 :)
Yeah I had a Firefox plugin earlier that turned all text to bionic, and I loved and hated it at the same time
Especially since it feels like you're reading in 1fps. It feels like stuttering
It's a loosening of control, I think. Let the wheel turn on its own, you're still there to steer as needed, but let the inertia do the work. 🤓
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.
Ah, the "I read three pages but my brain was thinking about bees"
God, this used to annoy me so bad. I'd read the same three paragraphs over and over again, only for my mind to wander immediately every time. I've since come to appreciate it though, because my mind usually wanders off to think about potential scenarios in the book I'm actively reading.
Like what two characters might say if they were to have a conversation about something specific, or even how the current situation I'm trying to read about might progress (instead of just focusing on the damn words that give me that answer, thanks brain). Time spent daydreaming about a story I enjoy isn't time wasted IMO.
Though, it's admittedly still very annoying when I'm trying to read something boring like a science or news article.
What kind of bees?
Didn't know these existed until yesterday one flew into my home.
It was so big I initially thought it was a hornet
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.
it slowed my reading in the same way.
Felt wierd realy, like I couldn't read ahead while my inner voice was "saying" it.
I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.
Same, I was hoping to burn 20 seconds of my life and instead it took only 10
This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.
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?
There's a bionic reader extension for Firefox that works on mobile, but obvs that only works on webpages
Most such phone apps should be web pages, and the good ones usually have a web-page version.
Book's Story e-reader supports this by the way:
Wow, thanks I was looking for a replacement to ReadEra, I didn't find this with F-Droid's search
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.
What about this is "bionic"? And what part of the brain is the "brain center"?
What about this is "bionic"?
Try reading with this:
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
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.
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
Reading this is like pointing an information machine gun on my brain and pulling the trigger. I read the first sentence faster and then the buffer overflows and I have to constantly stop reading or re-read stuff because the comprehension part of my brain cannot keep up. I feel like I naturally already kinda read like this, I don't read character for character but kinda skim words and know what it says. The image forces me to read in a very unnatural way because I cannot properly use the last part of the word for extra confidence in these predictions.
It helps me read faster, but IDK what effect it has on comprehension in a longer text. If I struggled to read I might be tempted to try it, but thankfully that's not one of my many issues.
What the fuck. How could bolding half the word make me stutter in my own mind? This is absolutely unreadable. This gave me anxiety the moment i looked at it. This is like that one paragraph that talks about the letters being rearranged. Complete gibberish.
How do I get this on a kindle?
So what's the plugin to switch to this by default?
Only started working halfway through reading this...but I think this is overall crap. You read however fast you read.
So that you mean that it took a few moments to adjust? Almost like you weren't going to immediately be able to jump onto the skill instantly and that you needed some more time? Perhaps immediately coming to the conclusion that it is terrible and not worth the time after only a brief experience with the usage of such a thing isn't the best thing to do. Then again, perhaps calling it crap based off of your own personal experiences when other people in this thread are saying otherwise is a bit narrow minded? Expand your horizons. Let people be people and phrase your opinions as them. Not everything is going to be universal. Live long and prosper, my friend. Have a good day.
Edit: The fact y'all are downvoting this polite message saying "Don't unilaterally call something shit that others enjoy" says way more about you than it ever could about my comment ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I personally get a headache trying to read this, so it would be hard to practice… Words seem to flow faster though, need someone record their time reading with and without this
I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.
This also works with neurotypicals tho...
This is crazy
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.
