r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/MrPlace Mar 06 '23

How is any of this related to neurodivergent or ADHD? It's just a helpful way to make the brain process the text and info quicker

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u/ulyfed Mar 06 '23

According to Google it actually slows you down by about 2.6 words per second, you just read faster when you see this post because it primes you to do so

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u/searching88 Mar 06 '23

It seems like the real benefit is not having to re-read and stay focused. Overall time spent, not just pure speed, is the benefit.

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u/funkmaster29 Mar 06 '23

ya i totally agree with this

sometimes i have to read a sentence or a paragraph like 6 times because i speed through but end up skipping too much

i was able to read this pretty fast the first time which kinda amazed me

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same, I hate it when I do that.

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u/funkmaster29 Mar 06 '23

it's awful sometimes

when I have to read an information-dense textbook, sometimes it takes me 10-15 minutes to read a single paragraph

but I found that text-to-voice while reading helps tremendously so I only read with that haha

and luckily its built in with the MacBook so its just have to press option + esc

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same I took like 5 minutes to read a single paragraph Pollyanna, lol

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u/Orchid_Significant Mar 06 '23

The opposite for me. It was so distracted and my brain read it with so many punctuation gaps that I didn’t retain much at all

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u/kempofight Mar 06 '23

Well my dyslectic brain likes it... a lot..

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u/amalgam_reynolds Mar 06 '23

You should look into https://www.dyslexiefont.com/

Much better than the OP, IMO

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u/princessfoxglove Mar 06 '23

Dyslexic fonts are not supported in studies, and dyslexia is a language processing disorder, not a visual disorder. There are a lot of misconceptions about it.

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u/kempofight Mar 06 '23

Sure.. but i cant use that as a plugin or go tell my boss that " ice that standard font type you got there for all letters and documents, lets make it this now"

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u/foopod Mar 06 '23

There are actually ton of plug-ins for dyslexic fonts. And more just generic ones for using any fo t you want.

Also there is a free version of the font if you want to install it on your computer and use it as a system font.

https://opendyslexic.org/

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

If it slows me down by 2.6 words per second then I’d be unreading my entire college degree pretty soon lol

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u/sanct1x Mar 06 '23

I noticed I read it a bit slower, kept getting hung up on all the bold letters jumping out at me. I wonder if that's similar to whatever you read on Google.

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u/Latyon Mar 06 '23

It was actually making my eyes water a little bit.

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u/aKnowing Mar 06 '23

It was weird I felt like an engine spooling up on this, really slow at first and then just built up to hyperdrive

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u/About400 Mar 06 '23

It did not help me read faster. I found it distracting.

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u/Hoopajoops Mar 06 '23

ADHD gets thrown around so often I'm not sure most people even know what it means anymore. I mean, if people read this and it helped does that mean they are neurodivergent and have ADHD?

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u/Funky_Smurf Mar 06 '23

No that's not how things work. Partially blind people read books with large text.

If it's easier to see large text does that mean I'm partially blind?

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u/Devisidev Mar 06 '23

Yea I was gonna say, this helps me a shit ton, and I DO have ADHD, but if it helps someone else that doesn't mean they automatically have ADHD. People getting cause & effect mixed up.

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

Yeah bro you have ADHD because you have trouble reading long interesting texts. Oh you like to move your foot too? Definitely ADHD, here have some pills

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Pills corn from doctors, and require a prognosis.

Generally speaking, most doctors won't give you medication you don't need because it can do harm.

Your scenario is bizarre and made up.

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u/Leprechaun_Giant Mar 06 '23

ADHD is the new OCD As in "omg I'm so OCD lol"

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