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As someone with both, it's either feast or famine, depending on how interesting my brain finds it.
I read nearly cover to cover the National Electric Code because I wanted to rewire my house and I found the standards fascinating.
I could not read through my AWS training materials because AWS is boring AF.
God I hate AWS
You and me both.
i love how it wasnt a catchy book, romance, or whatever that peaked your interest.
It was the National Electric Code.
The national electric fucking code.
this is autism in full effect.
- Someone who is reading "Excuse me, sir, would. you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?", the biography of a man who started a chemical company. I know, thrilling.
My ADHD makes it so I can't read books for shit anymore, even though I would go through several every week as a kid. For anyone else having this problem, one thing that sometimes helps me is to listen to someone read the text while reading along. This could be an audiobook, but there's also an extension for Firefox called "Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader" to get through pdf files.
If you want a wild ride, read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Not only will you reread the same sentence for over 40 minutes, it’ll never make a lick of sense. Ever.
I mostly listen audiobooks for that reason. Oddly I have friends that are ADHD that can't focus on an audio book but can read without a problem.
I use audio books to take up bandwidth when I'm working. A lot of what I do on a daily basis is pretty routine so they keep me on task like nothing else
I notice that once I start reading I really enjoy it, but it's always a chore to even bring myself to pick up a book. Even ones I've already started reading and enjoyed, I find difficult to pick back up. I'm not doing anything useful with my time either, my attention keeps getting hogged by YouTube et al :(
If you'd like, two strategies:
I always keep a book on the John, and will pick it up any time I'm in the room. Gets me through that "first half is dry build" some books have, even if it's a paragraph at a time.
Other is audiobook+mindless game. I spend a decent chunk of my afternoons when I'm in this mode just playing Peglin or more recently Haste muted while the book goes.
This book on the John I've done since childhood, it's got me through some dense stuff, I'd definitely recommend it. Hope it helps!
always keep a book on the John
Then when do you Lemmy?
My AuDHD brain used to do both as a kid…
As a kid I was enthralled. As a current adult, I do both, and the battle is tiring.
...Au as in Gold?
AuDHD = AU-tism + ADHD
It’s not a spectrum, it’s ELO
he’s a gold tier
I'm currently studying for a network certification: 540 pages where I alread know like 70% of the content but am missing some specific (and important) details. Having to go through all of this without loosing focus and thus missing those details is... challenging, to say the least.
Are you me? I've been studying for my AWS Cloud Architect cert for....two years. I'll finish the training material eventually 😂.