Text-to-speech is your friend here.
I use a website called “speechify” but there are a lot of options.
Still helps to read along with of, but having that auditory input on tandem with visually reading will keep you on track like you’ve never experienced.
I think it could be argued for a state of hypnosis, like how people drive for miles but just don’t remember how they did it entirely.
Difference is, you clearly drove and got there safely. You didn’t read the words on the page, you just moved your eyes across ink blots.
I was a professional driver for 20 years. I can attest that autopilot is a real thing.
It’s easy to monitor traffic on either side but end up daydreaming and miss a turn.
I’ve been out of the transport industry for five years now and I still occasionally find myself auto-piloting to places I used to deliver to. It’s so weird.
I drove black cars for a bit, I’ve definitely just taken the airport exit once when I was out of it. Glad I’m not alone.
Yeah. It’s not a big deal, but how you handle it really matters. (This is advice for anyone else reading; I’m sure you know.)
If you miss your turn because you’re daydreaming or whatever, just keep going. DO NOT swerve three lanes over to an exit or whatever other dumb shit. You fucked up. Deal with it without putting other people in danger.
Disinterest
No I’ve done this when I was interested. This happens to me when I’m stressed about something and my brain goes off to think about it even though my eyes are going through the motions with the words on the page. Then I have to start again.
I have to read out loud to myself to finish a book or an article.
It has made my reading comprehension go through the roof. And I didn’t understand that about myself for my first 45 years.
Lucid Reading?
Now I know that when people say read something they don’t mean read the words but not the meaning. They mean read it and comprehend it.
It already has a name: ADHD
“someone isn’t focused, they’re surely suffering from a neurodevelopmental disease”
fuck this fucking pillpusher propaganda
It’s absolutely an ADHD symptom if it happens every time a person tries to read. Whether or not they need medication is a separate issue.
Oh yes, anyone who ever feels even the tiniest bit of infocus is ADHD. /ultrahypermegasupersarcasm
Learn about the condition you’re talking about. You’ll get angry and start spamming shit at me, but that’s all before you’ll actually read anything more than a few sentences. I’ve read dozens and dozens of studies on this. You wont’ even understand what the word “neurodevelopmental” means.
Headaches don’t mean you have brain cancer, does it**?**
Headaches are a symptom of strokes, pretty much always. It doesn’t mean that you should think you’re having a stroke if you get a headache.
Sure bud, tell me about the condition I’ve had all my life and how my life didn’t get immeasurably better when I finally got diagnosed and treated by a professional in my 4th decade of life.
So ignorant and arrogant at the same time. Trump voter?
Sometimes a headache is actually a sign of a fatal cancer that needs to be operated on.
MOST of the time it isn’t.
I don’t expect you to understand the difference.
I did find this paper where somebody used the term “mindless reading”
Smallwood, J. (2011). Mind‐wandering while reading: attentional decoupling, mindless reading and the cascade model of inattention. Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(2), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2010.00263.x
I can sometimes do this without my attention even shifting. I’ll mentally read every word individually for a while, but forget to put them together to actually understand them.
I do that stupidly often when reading stories.
I think we’ve got some drivers around here who drive like that.
I call it “ADHD” because I damn sure was thinking about 3 other things while I was reading-notreading.
“School”
That’s called “School”.
I vary between spacing out, zoning out, or the already mentioned autopilot.
This was a symptom of ADHD that I discussed with my doctor when I got diagnosed tbh
I could do this, reading out loud even. And not know what the fuck I just read for the last 10 minutes.
And yes, I have ADHD.
If it happens all the time I would say so. This happens to me when I’m tired so I just figured it’s my brain lagging
Is this an indicator or straight up ADHD specific? Because this is me constantly
Is it an actual ADD symptom? I do this all the time.
It was for me, I’m not sure if it’s universal. Consider talking to a professional if you’re concerned about it.
I’m already middle-aged, so changing the way my mind works at this point would probably cause more harm than good. I’ve already figured out how to live productively with the unique workings of my psyche. Thank you though!
My wife was diagnosed at 42, it’s changed her life for the better. She is still the same person, adhd quirks and all, boy she has a better understanding of her behavior, and more control.
Right on. I’ll think about it.
we know we’re hardwired by a life of struggles and workarounds but our brains have more plasticity than we give ourselves credit for
Yeap, one of the BIG ones according to multiple doctors I’ve seen
Either that or dyslexia can apparently cause this too, according to my dyslexic friend in HS
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I think I do have some low-grade dislexia, but not enough for it to cause any significant issues. Just occasionally, especially if I’m tired, I’ll read things completely out of order.
Yep. It was actually one of my diagnostic questions.
Yes, but many things are symptoms of ADHD, but no single symptom alone is a sign of ADHD.
Surely there’s a very long German word for it.
Attentiondefißithyperactivitydißorder
While this is more common for people with ADHD, it can happen to anyone.
True, but I only get so many opportunities to use that silly ß
Get in the habit of replacing “fuck” with “sheiße” and that problem is solved!*
*People might think you’re weird/a Nazi for this, even if you’re actually learning German, because people are weird
I think the whole “using German means you’re a Nazi” thing will have to change now since there’s a much bigger country embracing Nazism…
Scheiße*
Justified usage.
As an ADHD person, sight reading is actually my shitty superpower. I don’t understand it, but my difficulty is just starting the book. But once I’m in it’s pure hyper focus.
More like Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörung.
By the way, using the ‘ß’ as you did would force the preceding vowel to have a stretched pronunciation.
And I don’t know about you, but in my opinion defeeßit and deeßorder sounds awful.
Aufmerksamkeitsdefizitsyndrom
It 's not that long, I think it is called “Leselücke” (reading gap).
If you want, you could call it “Lesegedankenwanderungsamnesie” (reading wandering thought amnesia) 🤔
I’ll bet there is - some of my friends call it “Leseschlaf” (reading sleep), which seems fitting.
at least 35 syllables long and you’ll forget what your reading halfway through the word.
Ambien
Motor tasks like eye movement I think would fall under autopilot. I think it increases with age and adhd
