Happens way too often to me.
edit: I had no idea this was such a common issue!
I’m doing it reading these comments right now
I just read through the whole page, what comments are you talking about?
I’m reading and reading, but i still don’t understand what you are saying
This is a great discussion! I wonder what you guys said
I don’t even know what this post is about. OP sounds like a dumbass
wait a second here, what did you say?
I ain’t reading allat
I’m pretty sure I have undiagnosed inattentive type ADHD so this is the story of my life. One word could send my brain on a journey of other related things even while I’m still reading the words. I have to reread so much.
I have diagnosed adhd and this is very much my life. Audiobooks are the best! It still happens, but way way less
I wish I could do audiobooks. I don’t know if it’s my autism making it more difficult to process auditory information or what, but audiobooks are even more difficult for me. I love podcasts though, since that is just casual conversation and I never get too lost even if I zone out and miss something.
I’ve never been able to do audiobooks unless I’m reading along. Can’t pay attention to spoken words. I used to hate when teachers would make students take turns reading passages aloud. I literally couldn’t pay attention because they would read s o s l o w l y that my brain would have too much time to think between words.
I think you just unlocked a memory. It is so difficult for me to understand when people are talking too slow. I can’t remember what words were at the beginning by the time we get to the end. I always have to watch everything with subtitles.
I have diagnosed inattentive type and was just sitting here wondering if this was a feature of it.
Diagnosed combined type checking in - I also do this. I came to the comments to upvote whoever was here to tell OP that if this is a constant struggle, they might have ADHD.
Usually happens because I start thinking about something else without quite realizing it. I do the same thing with podcasts sometimes, too.
All the time dude, ADHD sucks lol
ADHD dude here. Can confirm without medication life is a living hell.
This is a common issue with people who have ADHD. Source - Diagnosed at age 7.
My wife has dyslexia and she can read the same book five times and every time it’s different. Kind of awesome, to be honest
Yep, some books I just can’t get into and it’s like I’m reading them but not taking in anything? I find this happens a lot with textbooks and documentation and I have to really try hard to focus on what I’m reading
Not just with reading, personally I have this problem with hearing, more so than with reading. If I’m not actively concentrating, stuff really just goes in one ear and out the other, bypassing the brain competely. This is why I can’t multitask while listening to podcasts or audiobooks, because it just becomes white noise.
Used to be the case for me, I used to love reading books when I was younger but the stories never stuck with me because I was too used to reading quick. Nowadays I read much slower but I appreciate them so much more!
It’s normal if you have dylsexia/ADHD <3
This is why I have a hard time getting into or even reading books in general. I just… stop processing.
I have ADHD (extra-spicy type) and this is a super normal symptom for me. Also happens with movies and tv.
This used to happen to me a lot before I started using an e-reader. I found that if I put the font on the ‘open dyslexia’ font and bump up the print size significantly, this rarely happens anymore. It’s strange since my eyesight is 20/20 so I don’t have a problem seeing the words, I think it might be that seeing all of the other text on the page ads eyestrain and distraction.
Try it out! It might help.
Well for one there’s less on a page for your brain to process at one time, and for two, dyslexia has nothing to do with eyesight so you may also just have dyslexia, it’s a common co morbidity with ADHD
Yeah, it happens to me every time I read a book. Hell, for any media for that matter. It’s quite annoying, I wonder if there’s a way to fix my retention
I realized recently I started reading books the same way a keep listening to videos on the background. It works for passing the time or unwinding a bit. For retention, mindfulness exercises (silly as it sounds) seem to work: taking a look at my environment and taking a moment to clear out distractions, stoping to think what is it I last read on that book (which is always harder then I expect), reflecting why I’m reading whatever it is I’m reading. Doing these things as little rituals tends to help.
Try reading aloud. It seems to change my focus.
Sounds like adhd kicked in and you were off in your head. Ever trying listening to white noises while reading?
I find that any type of music, regardless of how clean and continuous it may be, disrupts my reading experience by influencing the way I read, or making me think about what I’m listening to. The only times(well, mostly) I can read properly and without any type of difficulty is when I’m not very sober.
It’s impossible for me and I think it’s just comes down to my adhd. I will play Ghost in the Shell and Bladerunner atmospheric mixes when I read scifi for example. In silence my brain is too loud and doesn’t stop. If I’m reading and whatever white noises are playing it minimizes the gaps when the brain wanders. It was already busy processing the sound.
