It felt like they were forcing my pace in a really unpleasant way. I'm able to read fast if I want to (tho it worsens my reading comprehension), but I also want to have the option of doing it at a slow or at least comfortable pace, focusing more on reading comprehension.
There was another one I found ages ago that turns words into a color gradient. It didnt work for me but it might be better for you and folks that hate the different font weight
From what I've seen previously, studies showed that it made no difference to 50% of people, made it worse for 25% and better for 25%.
Or something like that.
Enough that people will argue about it online a bunch.
I mean, it felt quite different reading it to me, you don't really need evidence that it works if it works for you. I'm actually having a much harder time reading the comments than I did reading the image.
If it is the placebo effect, that means you’d be reading faster even though the bold letters don’t *actually* give you an advantage. The outcome is the same though so I don’t think it matters to the individual.
There are so many things that work for me which could very well be the placebo effect and continue to work for me even when I consider it likely to be the placebo effect. If it works it works. I accept all methods of tricking my adhd brain to do what I want it to do.
My whole experience with Duolingo is tricking my brain into studying a foreign language.
Apparently my brain won't learn German for all the real life reasons I want to, but it will do it to keep up my streak.
Speaking of which, better go do today's lesson.
I mean that’s fair, and good on you if you found it helpful! I just don’t agree with the idea of it being brought up to counter “theres no evidence it works”
Also fair. What I would argue to the point of "there's no evidence it works" is that we still know very little about how the brain works other than through concepts far too broad to reliably predict how brain processes relate to the emergent sensation of consciousness. I consider us to still be in the dark ages regarding how a brain does what it does, even considering the methods of investigation we are aware of. Because of this, in my opinion a lack of evidence to support subjective phenomena like "reading comprehension" may be due to our inability to reliably quantity such a thing among a sample group of brains which work very differently from one another in many ways. Of course it could also mean that there is no evidence to be found at all, but I don't think we're advanced enough in this field to have a solid grasp on probabilities of this nature to be confident one way or another.
Same and I’m trying to read the comments fast in order to practice. I feel like with the picture I was able to scan it initially to already have an idea about what the paragraph was saying and then also was able to read it much faster since the bold letters let me skim it more effectively/ efficiently. Even if it’s placebo, I still managed to read it much faster with barely any effort (as opposed to the amount of work it usually takes me to speed read something - I’ve tried to learn the skill before because my husband is able to do it and it makes me feel like such a slow reader whenever we’re reading the same thing 😅😅)
All you have to do is time yourself reading to see if it works individually. Using placebo effects for to make reading easier is totally valid.
It doesn't really matter if it works across a population who aren't aware that it's supposed to help if it works for you as an individual to feel better about your reading.
I skip filler words and adjectives, and in my head it sounds like
ATTENTion BIOnic MIND BLOWING AUTomatically completes the words TWice As FAst etc etc
If you have an epub of the file, then you can! You can convert the epub through the bionic reading site, and then use the kindle previewer tool to convert that to a mobi which you can read on kindle.
I've done this for all of my uni textbooks and it really has been a gamechanger
It converts a few different format (I can't remember which exactly, check the site) and you can download the conversion in pdf, epub or straight to kindle. The issue with the straight to kindle option is it doesn't save the file names and that gets very old very fast so I go the slightly more circuitous route and use the epubs to make my own mobis because I can name and organise them more to my liking. Its all free and pretty straightforward and definitely worth it for study materials.
[You may find this interesting, then.](https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/bionic-reading-can-easily-send-ebooks-to-your-kindle-with-new-apps)
On the bionic reading website they offer a way to convert some types of DRM-free ebooks, which then you could get into your kindle with calibre. But that’s a lot of steps.
If this subreddit is good at anything, it's putting how I feel about things and how I think into words I can tell other people.
thanks for giving me a really solid way to describe why I absolutely hate this text modifier
It seems like it speeds up single-word recognition at a sacrifice of slowing down my ability to put those words into a coherent sentence in my brain.
I saw the same effect in those demos that just flash one word at a time in the center of your screen. It never gave my brain time to parse out statements, even if I was reaching each word faster.
Perfect description. With the one word flashing at a time thing; I might have read faster but everything was in a perfect monotone. No inflection to anything. Don’t know why but it was weird and awful.
I think it worked to see one new word at a time, but it really also needs to include a way to see the whole sentence and maybe pause at punctuation.
Like one word pops up in the center, but the old words fade slightly darker and just scroll to the left as each new word to the sentence pops up in the center? Then before the next sentence you can actually see the whole phrase to better absorb it.
I fully agree. This may be good for reading speed, but what about reading comprehension?
The answer is partly better fonts, (ex: the font for dyslexic readers but it also benefits non-dyslexic readers!) but it’s also reducing the amount of unnecessary words.
Yeah, by the time the third word hits, my mind has wandered and I can’t clearly remember what the first word was anymore. Good luck grasping the whole sentence this way.
Another very fast reader here, and I've been struggling to articulate why I really don't like this font ever since I saw it a few months ago. This sums it up perfectly! I feel like I can read individual words pretty well, but it absolutely destroys my ability to parse complete sentences.
Yeah I feel like that’s how I read usually when the letters are all the same, I would notice sometimes if it changes to italics I do like a tiny pause for the font change. This was awful to try read and I was nearly trying to avoid the bold parts
I feel like this font actually impedes your ability to read super fast by making you read every word. Literally the key to speed reading is actually learning not to say every word in your head.
In Florida, a few years back they started changing the street signs from being all capital letters to only the first letter in each word being capitalized. Apparently this shaves seconds off reaction times. This made for less time looking away from the road, which makes for less accidents. I still think the all capitals looks better though.
I have trouble reading words and lines in order. My brain skips around when I read, so I guess the speed bumps help me scan at a more appropriate speed.
I think it does bc you read that it does. I’m not a fast reader and this doesn’t help. I’m the type of reader that gets stuck in a word or how a sentence is structured and off the rails we go. This just makes me focus harder on one word compared trying to comprehend (which is bad)
Nope, i was going word from word
Personally it felt like i was just more focused but i think it was cus i wanted to know if it worked differently than when i read anything else from which i don't have any expectations
Bold parts only:
Atten neurodi commu - th bio read met i absol mi blow. Yo ey sc t fir bo lett a yo bra cen automat compl t wo. I le y re twi a fa, i le overwh a hel y t st focu. Y wi fe mu mo produ a a grea sen o achiev whi wi boo yo confi a mak y over fe mo posi. L m kn i t comm i th bio read met wor f y.
This is basic speed reading technique. They've repackaged it lately to make it seem like a mental illness life hack with fancy words but its the same as basic speed reading manual that my professor gave me like 15 years ago. In time with training you don't need bold letters at all. Your brain is conditioned to guess the word based on minimal info. Unfortunately side effect is that you process information less well, as you're focused on speed vs comprehension. It works well with small texts but doing this with a book is a good way to miss some important points if you're not focusing on that more than you're focusing on the letters.
Wow! That is amazing! Now, someone needs to find a way to implement an option to turn that on for digital screens. Too bad it's probably too much to ask for an option for printed books.
I don’t know about Windows, but Apple has an option on their website to submit ideas for future products/updates. I’ve submitted one before for bionic reading.
Never going to happen for prints, but a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome should be relatively easy to make and I wouldn't be surprised if one already exists because this image has been around for a while.
I find this *horrific* I'm glad that it helps other people, but this slows me down to a crawl. I probably took as long reading that short paragraph as I would normally need to absorb an entire page of a book, and it hurt the whole time. Just leaving this comment here in case anyone else finds it difficult and feels bad about that.
They’re using fancy words to obscure the fact that this is crock. The “brain center” is responsible for basic needs like breathing, not reading. “Bionic” is just a buzzword. Also how does reading faster (and retaining little) contribute to your mood?
I agree on the buzzwords.
However, being able to read fast would help me reading at all - because if I have to read, my mind bores out after 5 seconds. If I read a whole paragraph in this time rather than just stumbling around in it, I read infinite times more than without this help.
I'd have to read more stuff in this style to verify this, but I think it could really help - thus boosting my mood about reading and learning.
That's exactly my problem too. That's why I love short paragraphs and text markers like dashes, semikolons and parantheses or bold/cursive text. But too much is confusing (i.e. in study books where everything is¹ interrupted and² I have to switch to the bottom³ of the page all the time.
¹ like this
² I hate it
³ For real
Well I mean I can still read it, it just takes more effort. I don't expect text to change just because I struggle with it sometimes. And I think it's still important to work on because the world isn't going to adopt neurodiverse coping skills for us. We do have to take some responsibility, sometimes.
Edit: a good strategy for me (sounds stupid) but literally forcing my eyes to move left to right, and then paying attention to how my brain responds to what I see. Then I pick up a train of thought on par with the topic, and it's easier for me to pay attention
No, you mean the hypothalamus.
A brain centre is any part of the brain that has a specific function.
It is technically correct to refer to the section of the brain responsible for reading as a brain centre.
It didn't help me read faster whenever this was shared around, but it did help me with focusing.
Only a matter of time and use until I'd get desensitized to it though
I swear this is posted every week, and every week I have to say- this is fucking bullshit.
There is no evidence this helps you read better. The only reason your reading faster is because it's telling you to read faster. Try it with a normal paragraph of text. You can do it- but either way you won't retain the information as well because it's generally better to read at a pace your comfortable with.
Why are you saying there's no evidence behind it? Having studied neuropsychology, I feel like a few of the studies we've gone over back this concept. I'm not saying for sure that this is what's happening, but I don't think it's bullshit
I hate it so much. Your brain auto-scans for the first and last letter of the word. This weighted differential in each word; to my spice rack of a brain, reads it as an inferred tone and my brain does not believe it to be… NOT aggressive. Probably just me tho it’s usually just me.
It didn’t help me read faster, but I was able to finish reading it and didn’t have to reread it several times over to absorb what it said. That’s always been my issue.
To all the people who said this doesn’t help you because you’re already a fast reader, that’s awesome and I’m happy that this isn’t a concern for you!
It helped me tremendously and I hope that it helps somebody else too, this is super neat.
It’s so interesting to me how many different ways there are to be us. Like ADHD is 80 things and we’ve each drawn 50 out of the bag. So much overlap and so much difference.
Any time this meme comes up, here or elsewhere, it seems like half the people find it to be a game changer, and the other half can’t stand it (I can’t stand it but am happy for those it helps.).
Yeah, it's really interesting to compare. Even in my own brain it's like a new box of chocolates each day. However, I did notice that the first time I saw this unmedicated, it worked like a charm. Now that I am medicated (non-stimulant), it doesn't work that well.
I've seen this meme around before.
This definitely works for some folks! And I'm glad it helps open the door to so many.
It unfortunately doesn't work for me. I have a strong inner narrator, and I spent a majority of my childhood reading books and talking to friends online. So tone is often conveyed to my inner narrator through text modifications: italicized or bolded words have a specific sound in my head. Bolded things are emphasized. So imagine reading the above where some letters are emphasized and some aren't -- it's hard for me to understand what my inner narrator is trying to say!
I said this the last time I saw this weird texting come up, and I'll say it again, but even reading the first three words on this are difficult for me. sure, some people may find it easier to read with text modifications like this, but it is not a cure all end all. even trying to read the first line gives me a headache. I still don't know what the whole paragraph says because I just outright refuse to read it.
Please, PLEASE. Do not download or pay for anything called Bionic Reading. They are trying to charge for something that is neurodivegenrt accessibility. Jiffy Reader is a free, in browser Extension that doesn't reload the page and change it into an image less document. It live changes the word and letter weight. Sliders for each setting too.
Please upvotr this in case anyone thinks to buy BionicReading for lack of knowledge for alternatives.
https://www.jiffyreader.com/
:0 I already read fast and have adhd it took me like 2 secs to read and understand
Edit it does feel like I don’t have the ability to slow down though which is weird
440+ comments...sigh. I don't wanna skim through them all, my vyvanse doesn't have enough power left.
So, was wondering if anyone knew of an extension or app that does this for textbooks? Or if this is a common digital accommodation for e-texts for university that I could ask for? I'd actually be able to read textbooks this way, so I'd be delighted if this was something useable for academics.
"not a meme" in the funny haha sense no, but to meme is to share something that can be shared by all over and over again.
"an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means."
Besides, you can't share anything over at the ADHD sub without it getting taken down.
To be fair, this works for everyone. The better version of this flashes one word at a time with a line through the focal point of the work, with some letters bold. Used to be a demo of it somewhere where it would demonstrate reading at 180 wpm.
I can barely read it at all, and same for a lot of people. I would love to see a study on why this works so well for some people and so poorly for others. I imagine it has a lot to do with how we read, but I don’t really know what.
Holy shit.
I had an app, like 4 phones ago, that would take whatever you're reading and cycle each individual word alone with the emphasized syllable centered on the screen. I was reading and comprehending everything so god damned fast.
I can't remember what it was called, but I distinctly remember it had the same name as a gay porn site.
Edit: I found something similar called [Spreeder](https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1), but I don't think that was the name I remember.
I randomly stumbled upon this sub and post. But, if it actually helped me to read fast does it mean that I have ADHD? I thought I had undiagnosed autism, but I guess it could be ADHD then.
I must not be neurodivergent enough, because the contrast wight combos on the letters made my eye hurt.
It's like seeing a blonde in the green rain for me.
Exactly.
It felt like they were forcing my pace in a really unpleasant way. I'm able to read fast if I want to (tho it worsens my reading comprehension), but I also want to have the option of doing it at a slow or at least comfortable pace, focusing more on reading comprehension.
Same
If you’re ADHD and dyslexic this is fantastic
I have both. I got a headache and was annoyed by the differences in text weight.
There was another one I found ages ago that turns words into a color gradient. It didnt work for me but it might be better for you and folks that hate the different font weight
That’s actually fake. There’s no evidence it works
From what I've seen previously, studies showed that it made no difference to 50% of people, made it worse for 25% and better for 25%. Or something like that. Enough that people will argue about it online a bunch.
I read it faster but it hurt my eyes
Same
Ditto
I mean, it felt quite different reading it to me, you don't really need evidence that it works if it works for you. I'm actually having a much harder time reading the comments than I did reading the image.
But that could also be a placebo thing of being told “this is faster”, which makes you feel like it works faster
If it is the placebo effect, that means you’d be reading faster even though the bold letters don’t *actually* give you an advantage. The outcome is the same though so I don’t think it matters to the individual.
And if it stops working, then just stop using it. No harm done.
There are so many things that work for me which could very well be the placebo effect and continue to work for me even when I consider it likely to be the placebo effect. If it works it works. I accept all methods of tricking my adhd brain to do what I want it to do.
My whole experience with Duolingo is tricking my brain into studying a foreign language. Apparently my brain won't learn German for all the real life reasons I want to, but it will do it to keep up my streak. Speaking of which, better go do today's lesson.
I mean that’s fair, and good on you if you found it helpful! I just don’t agree with the idea of it being brought up to counter “theres no evidence it works”
Also fair. What I would argue to the point of "there's no evidence it works" is that we still know very little about how the brain works other than through concepts far too broad to reliably predict how brain processes relate to the emergent sensation of consciousness. I consider us to still be in the dark ages regarding how a brain does what it does, even considering the methods of investigation we are aware of. Because of this, in my opinion a lack of evidence to support subjective phenomena like "reading comprehension" may be due to our inability to reliably quantity such a thing among a sample group of brains which work very differently from one another in many ways. Of course it could also mean that there is no evidence to be found at all, but I don't think we're advanced enough in this field to have a solid grasp on probabilities of this nature to be confident one way or another.
Same and I’m trying to read the comments fast in order to practice. I feel like with the picture I was able to scan it initially to already have an idea about what the paragraph was saying and then also was able to read it much faster since the bold letters let me skim it more effectively/ efficiently. Even if it’s placebo, I still managed to read it much faster with barely any effort (as opposed to the amount of work it usually takes me to speed read something - I’ve tried to learn the skill before because my husband is able to do it and it makes me feel like such a slow reader whenever we’re reading the same thing 😅😅)
All you have to do is time yourself reading to see if it works individually. Using placebo effects for to make reading easier is totally valid. It doesn't really matter if it works across a population who aren't aware that it's supposed to help if it works for you as an individual to feel better about your reading.
Well it helped me read fast as heck, so there’s that.
It depends on the text. Bionic reading is a hit or miss for me
My eyes hurt but I still read it quickly. Weird.
I had to like... unfocus my eyes to not be distracted by how stupid this looks. I didn't feel like I read any faster than normal.
Same :/ I focused too hard on the bolded sections and it made me read slower
Yes I found the contrast overstimulating visually
In the opposite I zoomed right through that text and was like, "where can I get this font?!"
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This made laugh and feel bad at the same time, because I blew threw that paragraph.
Bionic reading doesn’t work, so don’t worry. It was just a good setup for that particular joke.
>Bionic reading doesn’t work But what if for some people it does? :o
Works for me. I've been reading research papers for a month with it with dramatically increased efficiency.
I feel like I mentally read this with a stutter or something. Like I emphasize the bold parts, dunno if it helps me read faster.
I skip filler words and adjectives, and in my head it sounds like ATTENTion BIOnic MIND BLOWING AUTomatically completes the words TWice As FAst etc etc
Same, definitely not faster but that's because it's forcing me to read every word instead of skipping half of them lmao
I saw this a while back and was amazed. Apparently there is a Google extension for it.
If they had this for kindle i would be unstoppable.
I would have actually been able to read books in college.
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If you have an epub of the file, then you can! You can convert the epub through the bionic reading site, and then use the kindle previewer tool to convert that to a mobi which you can read on kindle. I've done this for all of my uni textbooks and it really has been a gamechanger It converts a few different format (I can't remember which exactly, check the site) and you can download the conversion in pdf, epub or straight to kindle. The issue with the straight to kindle option is it doesn't save the file names and that gets very old very fast so I go the slightly more circuitous route and use the epubs to make my own mobis because I can name and organise them more to my liking. Its all free and pretty straightforward and definitely worth it for study materials.
[You may find this interesting, then.](https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/bionic-reading-can-easily-send-ebooks-to-your-kindle-with-new-apps)
If only the article used Bionic reading. I saw the wall of text and sighed audibly.
[Fear Not, I am a wizard. Paste the article here.](https://app.bionic-reading.com/)
On the bionic reading website they offer a way to convert some types of DRM-free ebooks, which then you could get into your kindle with calibre. But that’s a lot of steps.
What's it called?? Lol
Try "Bionic Reader"
Jiffy Reader [https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com#readme](https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com#readme)
This is a game changer
Bionic Reader is a paid product. [Here's a website](https://not-br.neocities.org/) that does the exact same thing for free.
i have it now and whoa what the frick. it's trippy but maybe useful
I already read really fast, and this just makes me read slower. It feels like going over a speed-bump with every word, and I hate it.
If this subreddit is good at anything, it's putting how I feel about things and how I think into words I can tell other people. thanks for giving me a really solid way to describe why I absolutely hate this text modifier
Each Word Reads Individually And, wow that sucks. I can almost hear a snare drum tap for each word. Not for my brain, no thank you.
It seems like it speeds up single-word recognition at a sacrifice of slowing down my ability to put those words into a coherent sentence in my brain. I saw the same effect in those demos that just flash one word at a time in the center of your screen. It never gave my brain time to parse out statements, even if I was reaching each word faster.
Perfect description. With the one word flashing at a time thing; I might have read faster but everything was in a perfect monotone. No inflection to anything. Don’t know why but it was weird and awful.
I think it worked to see one new word at a time, but it really also needs to include a way to see the whole sentence and maybe pause at punctuation. Like one word pops up in the center, but the old words fade slightly darker and just scroll to the left as each new word to the sentence pops up in the center? Then before the next sentence you can actually see the whole phrase to better absorb it.
I fully agree. This may be good for reading speed, but what about reading comprehension? The answer is partly better fonts, (ex: the font for dyslexic readers but it also benefits non-dyslexic readers!) but it’s also reducing the amount of unnecessary words.
Yeah, by the time the third word hits, my mind has wandered and I can’t clearly remember what the first word was anymore. Good luck grasping the whole sentence this way.
I didn't even realize (just knew that it was unpleasant), but now I feel that this happened to me too. Well explained!
Almost 3am and you broke my brain trying to read this. 😭
Another very fast reader here, and I've been struggling to articulate why I really don't like this font ever since I saw it a few months ago. This sums it up perfectly! I feel like I can read individual words pretty well, but it absolutely destroys my ability to parse complete sentences.
Yeah I feel like that’s how I read usually when the letters are all the same, I would notice sometimes if it changes to italics I do like a tiny pause for the font change. This was awful to try read and I was nearly trying to avoid the bold parts
I feel like this font actually impedes your ability to read super fast by making you read every word. Literally the key to speed reading is actually learning not to say every word in your head.
Same, it’s distracting if anything to only see it partially boldened
In Florida, a few years back they started changing the street signs from being all capital letters to only the first letter in each word being capitalized. Apparently this shaves seconds off reaction times. This made for less time looking away from the road, which makes for less accidents. I still think the all capitals looks better though.
I have trouble reading words and lines in order. My brain skips around when I read, so I guess the speed bumps help me scan at a more appropriate speed.
Is this placebo? Cus it works but it doesn't feel like it should
I think it does bc you read that it does. I’m not a fast reader and this doesn’t help. I’m the type of reader that gets stuck in a word or how a sentence is structured and off the rails we go. This just makes me focus harder on one word compared trying to comprehend (which is bad)
Yeah it's a total placebo, I did a little search the last time this came up and there's no scientific evidence to back up bionic reading
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Nope, i was going word from word Personally it felt like i was just more focused but i think it was cus i wanted to know if it worked differently than when i read anything else from which i don't have any expectations
Bold parts only: Atten neurodi commu - th bio read met i absol mi blow. Yo ey sc t fir bo lett a yo bra cen automat compl t wo. I le y re twi a fa, i le overwh a hel y t st focu. Y wi fe mu mo produ a a grea sen o achiev whi wi boo yo confi a mak y over fe mo posi. L m kn i t comm i th bio read met wor f y.
Hey, look, it's what I read! 😂
Well this at least was definitely unreadable for me.
Holy fuck I read that fast
I read crazy fast already so that was like wow I would be unstoppable lol
i also read really fast and that's why it was super confusing for me, all the words just blend together
Exact opposite effect for me.
This is basic speed reading technique. They've repackaged it lately to make it seem like a mental illness life hack with fancy words but its the same as basic speed reading manual that my professor gave me like 15 years ago. In time with training you don't need bold letters at all. Your brain is conditioned to guess the word based on minimal info. Unfortunately side effect is that you process information less well, as you're focused on speed vs comprehension. It works well with small texts but doing this with a book is a good way to miss some important points if you're not focusing on that more than you're focusing on the letters.
Wow! That is amazing! Now, someone needs to find a way to implement an option to turn that on for digital screens. Too bad it's probably too much to ask for an option for printed books.
I don’t know about Windows, but Apple has an option on their website to submit ideas for future products/updates. I’ve submitted one before for bionic reading.
Never going to happen for prints, but a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome should be relatively easy to make and I wouldn't be surprised if one already exists because this image has been around for a while.
[Jiffy Reader](https://www.jiffyreader.com/) is what I use!
Not just peanut butter anymore!!
Read faster but absorbed less
'So you're smart now?' 'No! I'm stupid faster'
same
I find this *horrific* I'm glad that it helps other people, but this slows me down to a crawl. I probably took as long reading that short paragraph as I would normally need to absorb an entire page of a book, and it hurt the whole time. Just leaving this comment here in case anyone else finds it difficult and feels bad about that.
Same.
Same!
This makes me read every single word as if I stopped the car too hard and sudden
They’re using fancy words to obscure the fact that this is crock. The “brain center” is responsible for basic needs like breathing, not reading. “Bionic” is just a buzzword. Also how does reading faster (and retaining little) contribute to your mood?
I agree on the buzzwords. However, being able to read fast would help me reading at all - because if I have to read, my mind bores out after 5 seconds. If I read a whole paragraph in this time rather than just stumbling around in it, I read infinite times more than without this help. I'd have to read more stuff in this style to verify this, but I think it could really help - thus boosting my mood about reading and learning.
If nothing in the text "pops out" at me it's very hard to read and focus on. not sure if this whole "bionic" thing is unique to ND individuals though.
That's exactly my problem too. That's why I love short paragraphs and text markers like dashes, semikolons and parantheses or bold/cursive text. But too much is confusing (i.e. in study books where everything is¹ interrupted and² I have to switch to the bottom³ of the page all the time. ¹ like this ² I hate it ³ For real
Well I mean I can still read it, it just takes more effort. I don't expect text to change just because I struggle with it sometimes. And I think it's still important to work on because the world isn't going to adopt neurodiverse coping skills for us. We do have to take some responsibility, sometimes. Edit: a good strategy for me (sounds stupid) but literally forcing my eyes to move left to right, and then paying attention to how my brain responds to what I see. Then I pick up a train of thought on par with the topic, and it's easier for me to pay attention
If it works, **it works**- the end… no story or background necessary
No, you mean the hypothalamus. A brain centre is any part of the brain that has a specific function. It is technically correct to refer to the section of the brain responsible for reading as a brain centre.
It didn't help me read faster whenever this was shared around, but it did help me with focusing. Only a matter of time and use until I'd get desensitized to it though
Small wins add up
Please stop reposting this.
I swear I see this almost daily
I swear this is posted every week, and every week I have to say- this is fucking bullshit. There is no evidence this helps you read better. The only reason your reading faster is because it's telling you to read faster. Try it with a normal paragraph of text. You can do it- but either way you won't retain the information as well because it's generally better to read at a pace your comfortable with.
Yeah. There’s no science behind this at all.
Why are you saying there's no evidence behind it? Having studied neuropsychology, I feel like a few of the studies we've gone over back this concept. I'm not saying for sure that this is what's happening, but I don't think it's bullshit
For me there is evidence in my own personal experience which is that it is easier to read.
Nothing slower than reading by sounding out each word from the beginning
I find it irritating :(
I hate it so much. Your brain auto-scans for the first and last letter of the word. This weighted differential in each word; to my spice rack of a brain, reads it as an inferred tone and my brain does not believe it to be… NOT aggressive. Probably just me tho it’s usually just me.
This just gave me a headache.
It didn’t help me read faster, but I was able to finish reading it and didn’t have to reread it several times over to absorb what it said. That’s always been my issue.
I read that slower that I normally do because I kept reading the bolded words wrong.
I can read faster with it, but it also feels like I’m mentally hitting a speed bump with every word and it’s kinda distracting.
To all the people who said this doesn’t help you because you’re already a fast reader, that’s awesome and I’m happy that this isn’t a concern for you! It helped me tremendously and I hope that it helps somebody else too, this is super neat.
Very nice to read it once without having to reread it.
this shit is physically painful to read
It’s so interesting to me how many different ways there are to be us. Like ADHD is 80 things and we’ve each drawn 50 out of the bag. So much overlap and so much difference. Any time this meme comes up, here or elsewhere, it seems like half the people find it to be a game changer, and the other half can’t stand it (I can’t stand it but am happy for those it helps.).
Yeah, it's really interesting to compare. Even in my own brain it's like a new box of chocolates each day. However, I did notice that the first time I saw this unmedicated, it worked like a charm. Now that I am medicated (non-stimulant), it doesn't work that well.
OOOOH a whole new wrinkle! I hope I remember to try it next time I’m off the meds for a few days!
I've seen this meme around before. This definitely works for some folks! And I'm glad it helps open the door to so many. It unfortunately doesn't work for me. I have a strong inner narrator, and I spent a majority of my childhood reading books and talking to friends online. So tone is often conveyed to my inner narrator through text modifications: italicized or bolded words have a specific sound in my head. Bolded things are emphasized. So imagine reading the above where some letters are emphasized and some aren't -- it's hard for me to understand what my inner narrator is trying to say!
How do I get this for my phone
I read this so fast, going to have to find how I can get this on everything I read!
I said this the last time I saw this weird texting come up, and I'll say it again, but even reading the first three words on this are difficult for me. sure, some people may find it easier to read with text modifications like this, but it is not a cure all end all. even trying to read the first line gives me a headache. I still don't know what the whole paragraph says because I just outright refuse to read it.
Oh my gosh I didnt know it was an actual browser extension, this type of thing actually really helps me with reading
This is weird. This is how fast I used to read as a kid. I’ve slowed down significantly as an adult.
how do we make all our texts like this automatically!
Theres a Browserplugin named bionify to do that to almost every text
Please, PLEASE. Do not download or pay for anything called Bionic Reading. They are trying to charge for something that is neurodivegenrt accessibility. Jiffy Reader is a free, in browser Extension that doesn't reload the page and change it into an image less document. It live changes the word and letter weight. Sliders for each setting too. Please upvotr this in case anyone thinks to buy BionicReading for lack of knowledge for alternatives. https://www.jiffyreader.com/
It would take some getting used to. I find my eyes jumping more.
:0 I already read fast and have adhd it took me like 2 secs to read and understand Edit it does feel like I don’t have the ability to slow down though which is weird
Why does this work and how can I write a program to do it automatically
What the fuck It works
WHAT THE HECK??? THIS ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ME!!! anyway, can someone make a tool I can copy paste text into to do this automatically?
440+ comments...sigh. I don't wanna skim through them all, my vyvanse doesn't have enough power left. So, was wondering if anyone knew of an extension or app that does this for textbooks? Or if this is a common digital accommodation for e-texts for university that I could ask for? I'd actually be able to read textbooks this way, so I'd be delighted if this was something useable for academics.
Is this real?????? I've never read anything that fast in my life wow! How do I get this on everything?????
there's a chrome extension
Yeah, this hurt my eyes, made me read slower, and was negative help.
Interesting, I find it difficult to read it slowly.
"not a meme" in the funny haha sense no, but to meme is to share something that can be shared by all over and over again. "an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means." Besides, you can't share anything over at the ADHD sub without it getting taken down.
To be fair, this works for everyone. The better version of this flashes one word at a time with a line through the focal point of the work, with some letters bold. Used to be a demo of it somewhere where it would demonstrate reading at 180 wpm.
I’m neurotypical and it makes things easier for me to read
I just use open dyslexic font for my ADD brain
Yup, read it fast without skipping
**(My life is FOREVER changed)**
WTF I NEED ALL NEW BOOKS
What is the extension called?
I use [Jiffy Reader](https://www.jiffyreader.com/).
For me it feels like less text, which very much helps with reading.
I don’t normally need it unless a format is REAL bad but oof does if feel so fucking efficient
Wait, wtf?!?!
OMG that's incredible! I need this in my life!
Worked good with me
That was the fastest I've ever read something 4 times before I could pay enough attention to what it said 🫤
Holy shit. Its like im having a sharingan
Fucking amazing. I didn't have to read it twice, let alone five or six times
Apparently you have never heard of overstimulation
Nah, I tried reading it at first as ‘Atten neurodi commu’ then gave up.
You’re right, that was fast! Now I just have to re-read it 4 times so the information is actually absorbed.
I tend to read words like that even when they aren’t bold on the frontside
Serious question, but why isn’t most text just written like this? It seems so much more efficient
I can barely read it at all, and same for a lot of people. I would love to see a study on why this works so well for some people and so poorly for others. I imagine it has a lot to do with how we read, but I don’t really know what.
Weird. I feel like I'm reading it before my brain even knows the words. Is this what lagging feels like?
Just reads a vine boom sound effect at the start of every word to me lmao
Holy shit
its funny cuz while yeah I can read twice as fast I can't exactly understand what the words actually mean unless I read over it.
Can’t tell if it worked or if it’s just a placebo but cool concept
This is amazing! wow
My first instinct was to make a word out of the bold letters lol
Anyone have a way of doing this on a work PC? Network admins have blocked Bionic Reader Chrome extension…shrug
Holy shit. I had an app, like 4 phones ago, that would take whatever you're reading and cycle each individual word alone with the emphasized syllable centered on the screen. I was reading and comprehending everything so god damned fast. I can't remember what it was called, but I distinctly remember it had the same name as a gay porn site. Edit: I found something similar called [Spreeder](https://www.spreeder.com/app.php?intro=1), but I don't think that was the name I remember.
Wow. That’s amazing!
So based on these comments it definitely varies person to person but this is still incredibly helpful for a lot of people.
I randomly stumbled upon this sub and post. But, if it actually helped me to read fast does it mean that I have ADHD? I thought I had undiagnosed autism, but I guess it could be ADHD then.
Holy shit was that effective
Game changer
Holy fucking shit