The lighter side of ADHD
What the fuck. How could bolding half the word make me stutter in my own mind? This is absolutely unreadable. This gave me anxiety the moment i looked at it. This is like that one paragraph that talks about the letters being rearranged. Complete gibberish.
I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.
Wow. Web sites should have this option.
There is a Firefox extension that does this. Or at least there used to be.
Yes please.
This appears to operate on the same speed-reading technique of “read only the spaces.”
It’s considered a beginner technique because although faster methods can be learned, this method can be used by many/most readers on their very first try.
Edit: also I’m not sure it has anything to do with neurodivergence.
Attention neurodivergent community - this bionic reading method is absolutely mind blowing. Your eyes scan the first bold letters and your brain center automatically completes the words. It lets you read twice as fast, is less overwhelming and helps you to stay focused. You will feel much more productive and a greater sense of achievement which will boost your confidence and makes you overall feel more positive. Let me know in the comments if this bionic reading method works for you.
Normal text for reference
This one feels easier to read. Guess it doesn't work for everybody, huh.
Doesn't work
I'm very skeptical, this text was easy, I need to look at a more difficult text using this. I don't think it would actually work
It would.
Damn, it actually works.
But how the hell does it work? How...fucking brain is still a mystery
I feel like you could take a piece of text and do this using python. I should try at some point.
Is't aslo vrey esay to raed olny the frsit and lsat lteters
I've found with this type of text that if I try to read it normally, I struggle to process the change between the start and end of each word, and read much more slowly. If I try to read quickly though, it flows, as if I'm skimming the words but still understanding them properly.
It's a very strange feeling :)
Yeah I had a Firefox plugin earlier that turned all text to bionic, and I loved and hated it at the same time
Especially since it feels like you're reading in 1fps. It feels like stuttering
It's a loosening of control, I think. Let the wheel turn on its own, you're still there to steer as needed, but let the inertia do the work. 🤓
I can read it twice as fast and remember less than half of it.
My reading speed was never the problem. It's the reading comprehension and memory that limits me.
I love this in principle but I can’t use it myself. I‘m a very fast reader by default, basically already doing what the highlighting tries to make you do, without it needing to be there. The highlighting disrupts that for me. I end up stopping at every word and partially jumping back and forth. I do show this to people on occasion that aren’t as lucky as me with their reading speed and most said it helped them. Not all though.
it slowed my reading in the same way.
Felt wierd realy, like I couldn't read ahead while my inner voice was "saying" it.
Can you expand on that? I have never been a fast reader and speed reading takes the pleasure out of it for me. So, mainly story books, I read at the same pace as a speaker might say them outloud. As if my minds voice is reading them allowed in a chair to the child me setting quietly on the ground. Speed reading feels like watching a show in fast-forward. Great for boring parts but not enjoyable to me.
How does your inner voice feel as you read?
I hate it. Made me read twice as fast and use four times as much brainpower to comprehend it.
This reads like one of my brother’s brainrot videos being read by an AI.
This "tech" has been out for a while but I don't know that we can easily get it on our phones and computers for general reading :(.
Anyone know?
There's a bionic reader extension for Firefox that works on mobile, but obvs that only works on webpages
10's era WAOW!!! posting still survives!
This is absolutely gibberish. I have to solve a puzzle for every word. Yes, I can read it. The puzzles are compelling. I must solve each one even though i know what it is going to try and tell me. No, I cannot just read this.
What about this is "bionic"? And what part of the brain is the "brain center"?
I'm skeptical about how much the bolding makes people read faster vs placebo of just telling people they should be reading faster. Also as other people stated, comprehension is what counts.
to be honest, it might be just me but i find this even more oberwhelming. its like the text is saying "THINK FAST, READ FAST GO GO GO GO" and yeah idk its more overwhelming
I'm not ADHD, but that particular passage using that particular font and those particular colors seemed to speed up my ability to read the text. But when Staments posted below (https://lemmy.zip/post/45655234/20636698) using what looks like the same methodology, it ended up being an impediment. I struggled to even get through the first sentence.
So I have to wonder if there's more to it than just randomly putting a character or few in bold at the start of each word -- like maybe it's also highly dependent on things like the font being use and making sure to use specific words and phrases that are conducive to this technique.
You already read like this. After the first few weeks of you learning to read as a child you probably didn't read each word letter-by-letter already
Hmm, this doesn't work for me, for some reason. I end up having to pause at the beginning of each word, like a child trying to sound out words while reading. It's not matching the flow and I feel like something is constantly off...
Reading this is like pointing an information machine gun on my brain and pulling the trigger. I read the first sentence faster and then the buffer overflows and I have to constantly stop reading or re-read stuff because the comprehension part of my brain cannot keep up. I feel like I naturally already kinda read like this, I don't read character for character but kinda skim words and know what it says. The image forces me to read in a very unnatural way because I cannot properly use the last part of the word for extra confidence in these predictions.
I thought too fast and now I'm sick
I picked up bullet journaling, writing down by hand in meetings, and the occasional journaling in my bullet journal.
It helps slow down that speeding brain of mine. Often speeding to nowhere, I find.
It helps me read faster, but IDK what effect it has on comprehension in a longer text. If I struggled to read I might be tempted to try it, but thankfully that's not one of my many issues.
How do I get this on a kindle?
I think that was debunked once but i am lazy to find the related survey / study.
It seems disproven, or perhaps only useful to some subset of people they haven't pinpointed.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691824001811
Honestly though if it helps someone they should ride that placebo as far as it takes them!
