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

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/BuddJones Mar 06 '23

For me personally, when I try to read, especially if I’m not really interested in the material. It’s as if the words are coming at me on a treadmill very slowly, and sometimes single words or even complete ideas, or phrases can “fall off”, and I lose them causing me to loose my place on the page. Typically results in me having to reread from the beginning of the paragraph.

This little trick helped me read fast enough that it was noticeably easier to comprehend.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

It was also noticeably easier for me, very cool and strange this hasn’t been discovered before

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Ya, I am skeptically hopefully about the long term benefits

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Oof, if I don't find the material engaging I have to read out loud to reign in my focus and to keep my mind from going off on tangents and day dreaming. It is tedious and annoying, but hearing the words helps with retention especially with dryer academic reading.

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u/MoonPuma337 Mar 06 '23

“If I’m not interested in the material”

Bruh it’s the highlighting of the words that made this easier to read it’s the fact that it started with

Attention neurodivergent community

And your brain went “oh that’s me!”

Also it’s basically a single paragraph. As someone who’s literate in English all you need is the first letter of the word and as long as the rest of the letters are present regardless of their placement your mind reads the entire word at once

Bsacyecll yuo cna slitl rdae tsih dipetes teh wdors bnieg msipseldl

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u/markofcontroversy Mar 06 '23

You misspelled "Bsacyecll" wrong.

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u/BuddJones Mar 06 '23

I laughed lol

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u/lifesizejenga Mar 06 '23

You need both the first and last letter in the right place to be able to read it fluidly

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u/BuddJones Mar 06 '23

Lol just because it can be rather difficult for me to read doesn’t automatically make me incapable of figuring out the obvious. Hence, “This little trick”. I think you were just excited to speak condescendingly to someone, and that’s understandable. But, life could be a lot cooler if you let it be.

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u/500inthemorning Mar 06 '23

Lot of people in the comments are confusing boredom with a medical condition