• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    As someone with both, it’s either feast or famine, depending on how interesting my brain finds it.

    I read nearly cover to cover the National Electric Code because I wanted to rewire my house and I found the standards fascinating.

    I could not read through my AWS training materials because AWS is boring AF.

    • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      i love how it wasnt a catchy book, romance, or whatever that peaked your interest.

      It was the National Electric Code.

      The national electric fucking code.

      this is autism in full effect.

      - Someone who is reading “Excuse me, sir, would. you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?”, the biography of a man who started a chemical company. I know, thrilling.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      the misery of searching for stories that catch your interest, finding a rare nugget of gold, reading the entire fucking 400 chapters in a few days, and being unceremoniously dumped back into reality and faced with the ocean of absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing.

  • mr_account@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    My ADHD makes it so I can’t read books for shit anymore, even though I would go through several every week as a kid. For anyone else having this problem, one thing that sometimes helps me is to listen to someone read the text while reading along. This could be an audiobook, but there’s also an extension for Firefox called “Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader” to get through pdf files.

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Cannot stress this method enough especially for information heavy books. Listening while reading along can be slow but I understand and remember the information so much better

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 months ago

    If you want a wild ride, read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Not only will you reread the same sentence for over 40 minutes, it’ll never make a lick of sense. Ever.

    • Lem Jukes@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you read, specifically the second book by Kaloophid, Some More of Gods Greatest Mistakes the main series starts to make a lot of sense.

  • monkeyman512@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I mostly listen audiobooks for that reason. Oddly I have friends that are ADHD that can’t focus on an audio book but can read without a problem.

  • xyx@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I’m currently studying for a network certification: 540 pages where I alread know like 70% of the content but am missing some specific (and important) details. Having to go through all of this without loosing focus and thus missing those details is… challenging, to say the least.

    • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      i have my security+ test tomorrow and despite all my free time i absolutely cannot focus on filling those gaps either

      • xyx@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Sec+ was kinda doable for me (passed with 84% a month ago) but only because its a topic that actually interests me. Networking, especially subnetting, however has been an achilles heel of mine for 20+ years though…

        I wouldn’t know how/where to evem start if it wasn’t for some pretty amazing youtube tutors (looking at you, Professor Messer^^). Reading is a nightmare but watching videos and doing practice questions/exams kinda works for me… I basically:

        • watch the whoöe topic once
        • do all the comptia practice questions
        • identify the areas where I drop under 80% success
        • watch those (and more) videos again
        • rinse & repeat until the last week
        • switch to practice exams for the last week
        • hope for the best

        I’ll only know by the end of next week if this works out, though…

  • cartridgedream@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    The experience of AUDHD; sometimes reading entire books in one sitting while other times not being able to read a sentence without having to reread 40x

  • Lauchmelder@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I notice that once I start reading I really enjoy it, but it’s always a chore to even bring myself to pick up a book. Even ones I’ve already started reading and enjoyed, I find difficult to pick back up. I’m not doing anything useful with my time either, my attention keeps getting hogged by YouTube et al :(