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Does anyone else get told constantly they read to slow? (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's exactly what I do. I never thought people went faster I'll have to ask my wife tonight

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I answered above, but I do read a lot faster than I talk, and faster than I can listen for sure. Will read transcripts instead of watching videos because it's faster, listening is too slow and speeding up the video does not work the same way for me at all.

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