I was just recently watching some video essay on youtube, but the narrator was sooo slow I had to speed it up 1.5× just to be able to concentrate an what he qas saying, and also to not waste my time listening to prolonged words and silence. Sometimes people just unecesseraly stretch the content.

Uhhhh is my 1.8x habit a side effect...I had no idea

I do this. I always thought the dopamine and distraction reasons made sense.

But someone I know who was diagnosed Not ADHD by one psychologist also does this extensively.

Grains of salt.

I speed up everything, Youtube, Libby, Jellyfin. If I had to listen or watch something at normal speed I'd pull my hair out.

I really believe audiobooks are slowed down to pad runtime so people feel better about spending $30 on a 7 hour book that should be 4. I listen at 2x speed because 1-1.5 feels like it's crawling by. The only time I slow it down is for technical non-fiction discussing science and math. Otherwise, full speed ahead.

Noob behavior, real pros just forget they're listening

HAHAHAHA…haha…

No.

I listen to podcasts and rewind every 10 minutes because I forgot to follow the conversation

When I'm ADHD, but also hearing impaired so it cancels out and I watch/listen to everything at 1x speed. lmao XD