The lighter side of ADHD
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 kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.
Wow. Web sites should have this option.
There is a firework extension that does this. Or at least there used to be.
Yes please.
I'm very skeptical, this text was easy, I need to look at a more difficult text using this. I don't think it would actually work
It would.
This appears to operate on the same speed-reading technique of “read only the spaces.”
It’s considered a beginner technique because although faster methods can be learned, this method can be used by many/most readers on their very first try.
Edit: also I’m not sure it has anything to do with neurodivergence.
Doesn't work
Attention neurodivergent community - this bionic reading method is absolutely mind blowing. Your eyes scan the first bold letters and your brain center automatically completes the words. It lets you read twice as fast, is less overwhelming and helps you to stay focused. You will feel much more productive and a greater sense of achievement which will boost your confidence and makes you overall feel more positive. Let me know in the comments if this bionic reading method works for you.
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Damn, it actually works.
But how the hell does it work? How...fucking brain is still a mystery
I feel like you could take a piece of text and do this using python. I should try at some point.
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
Might be tho because i was a bit stressed out by meself when i wrote this comment, now if i relax i actually just read faster my point stands tho
This really doesn't feel like an ADHD exclusive thing.
I don't think it's supposed to be. I think it's just supposed to be easier for people who don't have the ADHD that lets them read a book cover to cover while calling deep vein thrombosis a punk ass bitch who wouldn't dare
What about this is "bionic"? And what part of the brain is the "brain center"?
What about this is "bionic"?
Try reading with this:
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.
It's also kind of cool how your brain can both process text and wander off.
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 is absolutely gibberish. I have to solve a puzzle for every word. Yes, I can read it. The puzzles are compelling. I must solve each one even though i know what it is going to try and tell me. No, I cannot just read this.
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.
Can you expand on that? I have never been a fast reader and speed reading takes the pleasure out of it for me. So, mainly story books, I read at the same pace as a speaker might say them outloud. As if my minds voice is reading them allowed in a chair to the child me setting quietly on the ground. Speed reading feels like watching a show in fast-forward. Great for boring parts but not enjoyable to me.
How does your inner voice feel as you read?
For me, it completely messed up my whole-word and multi-word reading by shape. Like, I don't read by syllable because I'm not pronouncing the words, I'm just reading the meaning of the whole word directly from the shape of the whole word (or several words), if that makes sense?
Like, when I'm reading, my inner monologue is only "saying" a handful of key words in each sentence, as it fluidity skips over "mentally pronouncing" all the filler/context words.
This completely breaks that. It splits each word into two chunks, neither of which is the word, so I need to show down to "mentally say" both chunks of each word to read them. Like, it's still fast, I guess, but I'd estimate it slows me down by ⅓-½ish and disrupts my reading comprehension significantly.
I assume that if I read like that for a few hours, I'd likely get used to it, but why bother?
On the other hand, I think that could be a great reading tool, I imagine especially for people with dyslexia, but probably most fluent but slow readers.
This is the most accurate description I've ever seen of how I read
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 :)
Oddly enough, I find myself processing text with a regular font in both ways from time to time. Sometimes it flows like I'm reading half of the words but still absorbing every bit. Other times I notice the end of a paragraph and can't tell you what I just read.
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
This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.
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.
I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.
This also works with neurotypicals tho...
Now I read it twice longer
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?
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
This just hurts my brain 😭
