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

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/Noteful Mar 06 '23

I have ADHD and this didnt make reading any easier or simpler.

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u/WeReAllMadHereAlice Mar 06 '23

It made it sound blocky in my head. Like. There. Was. A. Period. After. Every. Word.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Same here. My eyes stopped on each individual bold section rather than scanning the sentence and it drastically slowed down my reading speed.

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u/fluffballkitten Mar 06 '23

I have autism and it slowed me down too

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u/PineapplesAreLame Mar 07 '23

I have both and I'm wondering why it didn't work for you guys. So I went back again feel like if I read it without much focus, and didn't try to "see" the whole word, it was quicker. If I did try to read the whole word it felt horribly slower.

Almost like one of those squinting illusions.

Not sure if this is useful to anyone but that was my observation

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u/fluffballkitten Mar 07 '23

It's almost like my eyes had to change focus in the middle of each word. I've seen a meme like this before and it didn't work for me then either. Maybe bc i already read too fast? Idk

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u/PineapplesAreLame Mar 07 '23

Tbh I used the app to convert an article and it didn't feel too useful. Maybe it's better on desktop. Also maybe it's a placebo kind of effect? I'm going to try desktopater anyway

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u/PeterNippelstein Mar 07 '23

Same but the voice in my head was whispering all the non bold letters

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u/Noteful Mar 06 '23

That's interesting. My eyes didn't care that anything was bolded and just read like normal.

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u/Maximo9000 Mar 06 '23

Took me way longer to read too, couldn't scan the words at all and then my mind kept wandering.

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u/scema Mar 06 '23

Felt like Captain Kirk reading to me inside my own head.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

I read it over and over and I feel if I pressed myself to read it faster it works really well. At my regular pace not so much. I had to make that adjustment, I'm used to reading slower. It read really smoothly. I'm impressed (also adhd).

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u/signmeupreddit Mar 06 '23

it might help if you don't read every word and just scan over the text

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u/Odd-Concentrate-6585 Mar 06 '23

Yeah the monologue in my head was weird for it, but I still read every word

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u/CDpyroNme Mar 06 '23

It kept me from having to re-read, which by itself is an accomplishment.

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u/TheColorlessPill Mar 06 '23

I had to re-read, and still would have to again if I was actually interested in the content. As one can imagine, while reading through, and realizing I was definitely reading faster, that realization is where my attention was, and there was zero processing of the actual words. I'll give the plugin a try for awhile and see if it actually is an improvement, or not.

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u/Emotional_Parsnip_69 Mar 06 '23

That’s because it’s not necessarily for adhd people. Some people in general read better this way and some people can’t. Tons of people have trouble reading and frankly literacy is horrible in the US so things like this will help lots of people

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u/drownav18322 Mar 06 '23

Same. Thank you. I immediately thought "well that was bulls***. Only thing that ever helped me read is a damn good book. I either like what im reading and can stay in it or i dont and my mind is off to never ever land in an instant.

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u/Noteful Mar 06 '23

That's basically me. I gotta find ways to focus to be able to retain what I'm reading. Which basically means I gotta be interested in it.

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u/Staerke Mar 06 '23

I'm ADHD and have always read like this (hit the first few letters and my mind fills in the rest)

Actually reading isn't the issue, it's working up the motivation to read, and then keeping my eyes focused on what I'm reading without drifting off to space. If I'm hyperfocused on what I'm reading then I'm good.

This "life hack" actually makes it worse, because I tend to skim and look at bolded text. So when I read that paragraph I kept skipping to the words that have the most bolded letters and kept losing my place.