I’m by no means unable to read or comprehend text, I’m smart enough for life and people often compliment my intellect. Big tickets on myself I know.

However when it comes to reading anything it often takes me twice as long, just a meme with text or anything.

If I don’t concentrate on it I miss words or like an Ai hallucination I put random words into the sentence or muddle them around making things often hilarious for myself until I re read the text to get the actual meaning.

  • blipcast@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I read at the same speed that the words would be spoken aloud. My SO tells me this is quite slow. I can force myself to read faster, but I find that the color of language is lost when I don’t include the right pauses and intonations.

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      13 days ago

      I’m the same. Best I can do is read as fast as a kinda fast talker? I do not comprehend how a person can read much faster than speaking.

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      13 days ago

      Same, when I read I ‘hear’ it as a voice in my head. And yeah, I can’t imagine enjoying reading without hearing that intonation and emphasis.

      I can ‘skim read’ if I need to find something in an article, but that’s like doing a word search of something, glancing at paragraphs and looking for specific key words. It’s not enjoyable and it doesn’t make me think deeply about the text, even if I could probably summarise the content of article to someone afterwards.