This is why we have TTS software and e-books
I wish. For me, that’s a recipe for understimulation. I can’t even listen to the same song for longer than a week or so, and can’t listen to slow songs at all, let alone someone’s voice reading a book. Doing any of these when I don’t specifically want to will cause actual pain within a few minutes of starting, until I switch to something else. I still manage to read, but usually in small chunks whenever I feel like it, so it takes me forever. I can also forget about the existence of a book I was reading entirely, and then remember it months later. This has happened multiple times, sometimes multiple times with the same book. Having ADHD and Autism isn’t conducive to reading a lot.
deleted by creator
Videos are better, yes, but not if it’s just someone recording their narration of a book, it needs to have something happening. Videos like Hakim’s work well, for example.
Definitely no direct conversation with me. I have Autism, and if a stranger tries to engage me in conversation, the anxiety I feel will be so extreme that there’s no way I’m going to remember much of anything from that conversation. If it’s someone I know well, that can work.
deleted by creator
Graded readings are very helpful
Youtube shorts and tik tok stuff might work since they’re short and attention grabbing
Short-form content doesn’t work because while it grabs my attention, it doesn’t provide enough stimulation for me to enjoy it. This is different for everyone, and short-form content can work for some people, it just doesn’t for me.
I listen to a new jazz or classical song every time I read theory to drown out sudden distracting noises like cars or people talking outside my house. You’d think the music would be distracting but it’s quite the opposite for me, the lack of patterns in those styles of music makes it easier to tune out, It’s a pleasant and complex white noise, plus it feels fancy as hell.
An interesting thing I came across a while back was a kind of mix of music and speech (basically an audiobook with instrumental music in the background) which apparently helps some people with ADHD
deleted by creator
This also seems like something that could help.
That actually seems like it might help, it’s a good idea, I will try it. My only concern would be choosing the right music, because if it starts interfering with the speech and making it hard to hear, that may end up going the other way and causing overstimulaion as my brain tries to process the speech at the same time as the music.
deleted by creator
You left out the good part!
What was the good part?
She started a threat proudly showing the pic posted “In case tankies tell me to read theory I have a library of it as my ear rings” And then it turned out she did not read anything of it.
deleted by creator
Thank you
