• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    This is why I exclusively do audiobooks now. Still happens, but nowhere near a tenth as much.

    Also, ingesting a Discworld novel in stead of traffic noise while still being able to see where you’re going so you don’t die is pretty damn rad!

    • Comrade Spood@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      9 days ago

      I feel like audio books might help me, but I also really prefer having physical books (one reason is I distrust digital media services).

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        I guess you could do both if you prefer 🤷

        If the worry is that you might lose access to your digital library by relying on a corporation not to fuck you over, you could always pirate them.

        And if that feels wrong to you, I’m pretty sure that most authors have patreons or the like that you can donate to 🤷

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dkEnglish
    8·
    9 days ago

    Combine it with autism for that echolagia effect. It feels like my inner voice is in a large cave or canyon with lots of reverb and echos. I sometimes explain it to others that words or sentences has to go round my inner roundabout a few times to find the right path.

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    Or when you’ve finished about 80% of your task, but the remaining 20% might as well be millions of miles away because it’s almost impossible to finish anything.

    I will actively go and do other people’s work for them, just to avoid the remaining 20% of the work I need to do. It isn’t even hard work! I could get it done in an hour if I put my mind to it! My brain will simply not turn towards what needs doing!

  • Cocopanda@futurology.todayEnglish
    61·
    9 days ago

    I hide it. But as a adhd person. I can’t really read because of my dyslexia. I have hidden it for decades. But it makes life terrible to learn anything.

  • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
    85·
    9 days ago

    I’ve never really understood the whole ADHD thing. They never spoke about it when I was a kid, and I’m skeptical about it now. Probably me just being an old codger.

    But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me. And this meme depicts exactly that. Interesting.

    • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me

      That’s ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I’m not saying you have it, but that’s one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it’s perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it’s also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you’re sitting alone in a room.

      If that’s your only one, or one of few, you’re a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it’s the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad

      Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you’re probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)

    • w3dd1e@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      That used to happen to me. I found I could only listen to audio books if I was doing something else to use up some extra “processing resources.”

      I would describe it to other people as an overloaded circuit. If I applied all my brain power at the book, it would overload and shutoff.

      If I was doing some tedious task that required some attention, but not too much, I could divert some of that excess energy away without overloading it. So for me that was, stocking shelves at work, doing the dishes, folding laundry, etc.

      Driving wasn’t enough so I couldn’t listen to the book. (Though, later, I did train myself to and now I can do it fine)

    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      ADHD is like autism. It’s a new diagnosis, but people have likely had the symptoms for centuries. It just didn’t have a name until now. This will keep happening as more and more is learned about the brain.

      If sounds like you might have ADHD. Whether or not you want to get treated depends upon how badly it affects your life. Personally, my symptoms interfere with my long-term planning, and that has made my life much worse.

  • Rucifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    8 days ago

    I hate this. My mind literally goes into scan mode and I cannot focus on what I’m reading it’s like my brain is just looking for key words. Wtf is the rush? Idk

  • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    On “normal” day I often have troubles even with single sentences. Then again some days I understand and remember (almost) everything quite easily.