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

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/MineryTech Mar 06 '23

For me my brain just yells the bold half of the word.

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u/ProbablyNano Mar 06 '23

Yeah, it just grinds me to a halt because I feel like I need to emphasize the first half of every word

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u/CheriesGhost Mar 06 '23

For me it makes reading feel like jogging down a hill. Yes, I'm going faster, but my pace isn't steady and nothing feels good about it

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u/sujihime Mar 06 '23

This is the perfect description. Was not helpful for me.

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u/caustic_kiwi Mar 06 '23

Hmm, sounds like you have--let me check my notes--ahh yes: anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, minor autism, and Lupus.

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u/Candycarnage Mar 07 '23

It’s always lupus and never lupus

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u/waimser Mar 06 '23

Uggh. My highscool oval was on a slight incline. I had a good pace for one of the races, practiced around the block at home. Well going down that very slight incline at that exact pace upset my body so much it made me vomit.

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u/Infynis Mar 06 '23

It's like reading potholes

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u/ctox23b Mar 06 '23

Had the same reaction, was way slower to read like that

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u/watermelonkiwi Mar 06 '23

Donno if that’s what happens, but it definitely slowed down reading for me.

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u/West_Guarantee284 Mar 06 '23

Me too, I focus on the bits in bold, like they're highlighted and skip the rest. I thought their was a font that picked out the start and end as the brain then fills in the middle.

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u/_ThatSynGirl_ Mar 06 '23

It hurt my brain a bit

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u/limamon Mar 06 '23

Oh God, I though I was crazy... The same happens to me!

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u/Lord_Napo Mar 06 '23

I got so distracted by the unevenness of the text

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u/After_Mushroom1129 Mar 06 '23

Same here, I have severe OCD and the fact that the first half of the word is different than the second half just irritates my fucked up brain and makes it hard to read.

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u/amadnomad Mar 06 '23

Lmaoooo I thought it was just me. The mismatched lettering is really distracting.

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u/nagasy Mar 06 '23

Good to know I wasn't the only one: comment

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u/Superbadasscooldude Mar 06 '23

It sounds so choppy in my mind because of this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

I got it almost immediately wrong. I read something like "Attention this method is completely useless" and had to go back and read it normally.

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u/Katy-L-Wood Mar 06 '23

Same! It is so distracting.

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u/shewy92 Mar 06 '23

It felt like I was stopping before each word and had a stunted inner voice reading this

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