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how do you focus on stuff
| Yeah I occasionally end up having to reread something a few times for it to stick. Really sucks.
| reading should make lots of mental images pop up in your head, it's not the words that are important, it's what they play inside of your mind.
if you read academic papers or other such information-dense contents, it's probably ok if you have to read it several times.
what i mean is don't focus on reading the actual individual words, focus on understanding and meaning.
if that made sense...
| I have ADHD and reading literature that interests me is no problem. But reading other stuff is pretty much impossible without medicin.
You should talk to a doctor and get some help. There are some obnoxious side-effects but the good outweights the bad imo.
Without the medicine I can't rest fully from sleep, I get exhausted from only a couple of hours of work and I can't concentrate on something without losing fatique. These pills are a miracle for me, side effects and all.
| According to my doctor people wth ADHD has a part of their brain semi-active 24/7, even when they're asleep. Said part of the brain falls asleep at regular intervals so it gets jolted by stimuli to wake it up.
This is why it's so hard to concentrate, and why it's so hard to get a full nights rest, and why some people with ADHD need to move around when said jolts happen.
Amphetamines mellows out this process to normal levels so pls talk to your doctor.
| >>686276
This g/u/rl got it right. Focus on the meaning. If you grasp the meaning it doesn't matter if you skip over words. Don't sweat over the words.
But if it does get bad, as >>686296 said, go see a doctor.
| You just don't. It doesn't work. Focus doesn't exist.
| I read it over and over again until it sticks. It sucks gurl im sorry.
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| i have adhd and always end up skimming the stuff i read. it's really annoying, especially when i want or have to read what i'm trying to read. when i try to put full focus onto what i'm trying to read, i end up reading the words but not focus on what they mean.
so, how the fuck do you read?