can't relate, my reader's block is that i could follow 100 stories with daily chapter releases and i'd still read them all in 5 minutes and then sit there crying because i'm bored out of my mind
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Are there any resources on how to potentially improve this? I know audiobooks, but I do really want to actually read. I did talk to my therapist in the past about it but they were no help.
I have an e-ink ereader (Kobo Libra Colour) that makes it way less intimidating. Just turn it on any time and read just as much as you can whenever you find a moment.
I've got a Kindle that rarely leaves the bathroom anymore, for this reason. Captive audience with a few minutes to kill? Sure, I can get through a chapter...
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Aka ADD
I just gave up on reading. It simply does not provide enough brain stimulation for the time it takes.
There are some books I want to read but I wont, and thats fine I guess.
Try audiobooks. It got me out of that kid of block. Can listen during showers, commutes, doing chores. It's great!
Audiobooks with video games that don't have dialogue are what got me into books
I have a handful of "low focus" games for podcasts, audiobooks, youtube video essays, etc.
Vampire Survivors, or almost any "bullet heaven" type game works well. Old School Runescape also has a ton of ways to skill grind with minimal attention needed. Turn based RPGs with minimal story are great too.
Played through a handful of Pokemon randomizers and romhacks while binging King of the Hill.
But the king for me for a while was Elite: Dangerous. Hop in my cargo ship, use spansh road to riches to generate a trading route, and binge stuff while flying fron planet to planet in supercruise.
OSRS player here with 20 years under my belt for RuneScape as a whole and the amount of books I've read throughout those years is astronomical.
Interesting idea. Which games did you like?
Binding of isaac and many rougelikes fit pretty well, a lot have vert good music but I like taking on a book more(also book recommendations would be the golgatha series for magical wild west, johannes cabal series that's the adventures of a decent but unfriendly necromancer, john dies at the end is a cosmic horror comedy series, space team is stupid fun scifi, oh and the black company follows a fantasy mercenary group who are sine of the very best but also too threatening to not be betrayed by the employers that's mostly told from the perspective of their medic
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It's called Burnout.
Look at the sub you're on
oops :)
Is there such a thing as ADHD burnout similar to Autistic burnout? Might be at least not as far of topic then :)
I haven't read anything in almost a year. I'm functionally illiterate.
I'm a functionally illiterate software developer
Was about to say "that's just ADHD" but then I saw the community
also fits depression
yep, can confirm
Well, not the sit still or focus issues, but the same result, an interest with no ability to act on it
ah, reading comprehension is not happening today apparently lol
It's also not just ADHD. That happens to me a lot.
Wait
This is the same reason why watching a movie on TV with ads is easier than pulling it up on whatever service you use.
Once you choose the movie, you’re committed to it.
It's not even reading the book, it's getting ready to read the book. Very frustrating
Don't forget getting ready to get ready to read the book.
Also, Gamer’s block. You want to play. You finally have the time to play. You have a pile of games that you’ve been wanting to get through, but you just can’t devote the time to it. It’s like a form of procrastination, except instead of procrastinating about chores/responsibilities, you’re procrastinating about your free time. In a way, some books/games kind of become a new “responsibility”, in that once you start them, you may feel obligated to continue. So then it becomes one more thing you “have” to do.
All first world problems, maybe not as high-stakes as Kanye’s problems, but problems nonetheless.
I partially solved this by getting a Steam Deck and playing on my commutes. I can't say I've been plowing through my backlog, but I'm certainly making progress!
I feel this one hard.
In my mind, before I can play a game, I need to have lots of time, nothing else that I'm doing later, and the perfect amount of energy to really concentrate on it. Unfortunately, life has gotten busy, so I'm trying to get more comfortable playing for 20min here, 20min there instead of scrolling on my phone.
I have this WHILE reading. I'll just start reading a page, and after the first words my mind wanders, but my eyes keep reading the words. Then when I reach the end of the page I realize that I have no idea what I just read.
I enjoy doing this. I'm usually thinking about the book I'm reading, so, while it might take me twice as long to finish a book, I also got to experience much more of the book, even if it was just my imagination.
Of course, it's an absolute bitch when it's something I have to read within a certain time frame, like for school or something.
Then you have to go back and reread...it was a big reason why when I took tests back in the day I would do horribly on them. Math, science, and anything that was non literate I would do great on.
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I get this with games too. And shows. And end up just scrolling Lemmy instead of doing anything better with my time..
I am exactly the same; why are we like this?
two reasons:
- because we're so drained by life that we don't even have the energy to put forward to doing an activity that we know will enjoy.
- we're so used to having to scrounge together any free time we can get that we struggle to commit to something that takes any amount of time.
There is another reason: the guilty feeling that something more productive could be done within that time. Or in the wise words of Retro Bird on YouTube, "I don't deserve to Donkey Kong"