ADHD memes

That's a bloody miracle

Edit: Lemmy comments don't seem to have enough contrast for it to work

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 :)

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

Opposite effect for me. I read that much slower than my normal speed

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.

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

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.

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.

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 thought too fast and now I'm sick

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.

I think that was debunked once but i am lazy to find the related survey / study.

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.

How do I get this on a kindle?

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

Old Tony, is this Nice! I read like this like im a normal Person lol.

Only started working halfway through reading this...but I think this is overall crap. You read however fast you read.

This just hurts my brain 😭

I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.

Holy shit, did I just get diagnosed?

This is crazy