• june 🌿@lemmy.sdf.org
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    yeah, this really took me out of reading for a long time. Just base-level “reading” where you kind of process the words as an activity, without actually absorbing anything.

    started medication recently, and hope that it’ll help with this. i miss reading ;.;

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      1 year ago

      Have you tried audiobooks? I have a far easier time with them and most everything you’d want to read is available in audiobook form

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        1 year ago

        I have a really hard time absorbing people speaking when i’m not interacting with them, and being understimulated and not knowing what to do with my hands when i am able to focus on audiobooks. I want to love them and podcasts, but they just aren’t it for me D:

        I’m glad they work so well for you and others, though!!

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          Audiobooks are fantastic for me while riding a bike or walking on a treadmill - something to physically do and something to mentally do.

          I can’t just sit and listen to them though.

          EDIT: Oh and repetitive tasks - I got back into audiobooks when I started making chainmail again. Which reminds me… I haven’t finished that thing I started a year ago…

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            That one thing you started a year ago? 🤔

            Let me introduce you to my database full of projects, fantastic product- or business ideas, things I want to sew, or construct in the garden, or things I offered to do for someone else because it’s something I’m really good at (but definitely don’t have the time for); all of it meticulously researched, sometimes for days at a time (while I was definitely supposed to be doing something else). Most of it already started, and then promptly back-burner’d because another new, shiny, completely brilliant idea reared its gorgeous head (rinse, repeat, ad infinitum).