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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can build up literacy like a muscle. I can read a lot if I forget to take my ADHD worsener (valproic acid), but even with that I can sometimes "rawdog" it.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This, I used to read a lot, even with my ADHD.

But for some reason I stopped, and now I struggle to focus reading.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brains gravitate to the quickest easiest dopamine responses, and will ignore things that give rewards slower. ADHD brains are particularly bad for this.

I have the exact same issue. If I was able to give up scrolling social media, I'm sure I'd be back on the books again inside of a few weeks. We'll just have to wait for the great collapse.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok they were dicky about it, but y'all need to consider the possibilities. Maybe they have undiagnosed dyslexia. Maybe they grew up in poverty and a terrible home life and never had the opportunity to become a reader for pleasure. Maybe lots of possibilities

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I assume it's similar how I can't get in to manga, but I can enjoy a novel or animated stuff. Just can't seem to enjoy those black and white squares with questionable art in them. Just doesn't speak to me.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not a huge manga fan myself, so I'll share the only one that's managed to make enough of an impression for me to read multiple works, and that's horror author Junji Ito.

He's usually got some disturbing, but unique and fairly talented art. Some of his stuff veers more towards ghost story, some dreamishly weird, and some straight up Cronenberg shit. His magnum opus "Uzumaki" is all three.

If you feel like giving it a chance, here's The Enigma of Amigara Fault, a shorter, tamer work that's a fairly common intro to his stuff.

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[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried any that are criticallyhighly regarded? I certainly wouldn't describe the art in Akira or any of Otomo's books as "questionable". Obviously there's cheaper stuff out there but there is extremely high quality Manga.

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[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There's almost certainly manga you'd enjoy out there, but if you're not willing to dig through all the crap that's understandable. And because it's more niche it'll take more effort to discover the things you'd like.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I listen to audio books more often than reading an actual book.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

When I used to have a 60 minute commute to work (train to a short walk to a metro to another short walk) I would down audio books like a fiend on the train. I have a neurodevelopmental disorder that makes it difficult to maintain concentration and when the narrator does distinct voices or music for different characters/scenes/etc. it's easier for me to follow than books.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I fucking knew 4chan was illiterate /s

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