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.
I read fast but I have to go back over what I just read fast like 10 times to extract any meaning from the text. But I’ve never let anyone observe my terrible reading skill so no, never had anyone tell me I read slow
Can relate. I’m seen as “smart”, but I do frequently get comments about how I read slowly. I don’t know what’s up with that.
Yeah it’s never been an issue for me but bothers people when they hand me a phone or something and say look at this.
Then get weird because I have their phone to long and assume I’m up to no good
I have their phone to long
FYI, it’s “too” long. Not trying to be a grammar nazi, but that’s the second time you’ve used the same wrong word. You say you like reading, so I’m just spreading the knowledge…
I have it probably similar and I have disgrafia so I think this could be because of disgrafia/dyslexia.
Disgrafia?
I know i can google but I’m curious from your perspective
Like yakko said, disgrafia is impaired handwriting. I have terrible handwriting and have difficulty writing letters that are similar to others like for instance a and o is very similar to write or p and just or r and z. There’s just small difference between them.
Like dyslexia but with numbers. For a friend the were brilliant but math took them a long time to work through
Ah cool I often wondered about numbers and dyslexia
I’m pretty sure dysgraphia is impaired handwriting. Dyscalculia would be maths.
Yeah, I can read quick, I’ve done so for school taking tests and shit, but it’s not my default and even when I do I don’t like to read quick because it doesn’t feel like I understood what I read, even tho subconsciously I somehow do
I don’t have situations that make me read in parallel with someone else, so no.
I do however suspect there might be a sort of ‘clock speed’ to different brains such that the rhythm at which they process can be faster or slower irrespective of ability to reason.
My brother and father both have diagnosed dyslexia and adhd i wasn’t ever checked. It doesn’t bother me though so I’ll keep on cruising along
Read to slow what?
I read to fast. It’s an odd choice, but it keeps me from eating.
It’s not a bad choice. Reading to fast by reading too slow so you don’t have time to eat.
I imagine you’re looking for a solid understanding of everything you read, like when someone hands you the phone and you want to grasp the context. Speed reading and skimming are essential skills, but the nuances of doing so mean that the details of the information aren’t always apparent.
Well that’s what I figure, you show me something I want to make sure I appreciate it properly. Not glance laugh and say “I seen’t it”
I get it, I suffer from the same prob
I’ve always read about half the speed of everyone around me. I’ve never understood why. I think it could be mild dyslexia. I also have inner monologue narrator voice. You’re not alone.
People are always telling me I read fast, but I don’t. I just spend a lot of time on it, apparently more than most people are willing to.
There are plenty of possibilities from ADHD to dyslexia. You should consult a professional if this is a major concern to you.
Back in the Roman empire, they didn’t have any punctuation marks or spaces between words. Reading was a lot harder. It was normal to read very slowly, compared to nowadays. And always out loud, sounding out the words, even in private.
Ohdamnthatwouldreallybehardtodealwithimgladourwritinghasevolved
Maybe undiagnosed Dyslexia?
Possible my brother has it I’m not sure if it’s genetic though.
Either was being in my thirties its not really hinderd me if I do
If I read too fast on things, then the information will be like grease for my mind and just speed through it. If I read slower, it helps better.
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.
That’s exactly what I do. I never thought people went faster I’ll have to ask my wife tonight
This is correct, for me at least.
I don’t read the text out loud in my head. I can, but I’m able to understand and comprehend the intonation and text without “performing” it.
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.
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.
