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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

No my eyesight is fine, what are you on about?

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Recently, I often misread words or even add ones that are not there. Long, complex sentences are very difficult to understand for me. I feel like primary school me would ridicule modern me.

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Nee, negen.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago

I... don't follow.

[–] fixerdude2@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

This is my daily struggle. Add to it verbal conversations as well.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

[–] liztliss@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely not bots, right?

[–] norawibb@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What the fuck... I just commented on another post where I was failing to read a sentence. This was literally the next post I saw.

[–] young_broccoli@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

lol. I saw your confused post just before this.

To be fair to you, they should/could have written it between quotations because its not really used as just a noun but a figurative expression: "the tell".

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