Abandon4093 said:
spartan231490 said:
Abandon4093 said:
spartan231490 said:
I read a 500 page novel in a day. If it's slow going, I might have to finish it the next morning. According to your little test, I read a 273 wpm, with a 82% comprehension rate. I think that the comprehension rate is higher when I read novels because that test sequence was boring, and because I rarely forget much of anything that's happened in a book, even if I read it years ago.
This is exactly why I try to find books that are almost 1000 pages long, and that are part of a series, that way I can be entertained for a while. Still, it never takes me long, I read a book series that was over 10,000 pages long in less than 2 weeks.
To answer your question, yes this happens because I sit down to read the book for hours at a time and actually read the book for that entire time(most of it, I occasionally stop to think about the book). If this isn't just some bad joke, and you really read like that, you either need to find a better book, or you need to go get checked out for ADD or ADHD.
No need to be a dick about it. Some people just read at different speeds.
I'm not being a dick, did you read the OP? If you can't even sit still and focus long enough to read more than a handful of pages of a book, without zoning out and losing your place several times, either the book is incredibly boring, or you have some kind of attention problem. I suspect he was likely exaggerating, in which case: whatever, but if he was serious, then he should probably go talk to a doctor.
But what do I know, I'm just a dick.
Wise words.
ADHD is the most bogus diagnosis out there. I could probably go and get diagnosed with it.
'Hmm, he's not paying as much attention to this boring subject as I'd like him to..... ADHD. Here's a vat of Ritalin. Go shove it down his throat and live a stress free life not engaging with your child like a real parent because he's been tranquilised. But don't worry, you have a diagnosis, so no one can call you a bad parent.'
Believe it or not, not everybody is suited to reading. A lot of people like to be more active and sedentary activity such as reading bores them. Even if they're interested in the book they probably think of the activity as a waste of time. Even if only subconsciously. Some may grow into it, others probably never will. It's not a character defect, it's not a lack of attention span. It's just that specific activity isn't for them.
I've known people who've never read a book in their life, but can sit for 5 or 6 hours putting an engine back together, gluing and painting hand crafted models or solving number puzzles. Hardly indicative of someone who can't focus.
Different strokes for different blokes.
Foolish words. Yes, ADHD and ADD are overdiagnosed, but some people really do have them. I know a kid who literally couldn't sit still for more than 5 minutes, he was failing all his classes, he couldn't read more than a page of text, and that would take him an hour. He was diagnosed and treated and now, he can pay attention at school, he's a solid B student, he loves reading almost as much as I do, and he can actually talk to you and have a conversation without being distracted by the color of paint on the wall. Now he had it about as bad as you can get, but there are a lot of people who really do need treatment to function properly. Most, if not all, minor cases are actually just shitty parenting, but the moderate and severe cases, like where you can't even read 5 pages of text without being distracted by nothing, need treatment.
As for some people being bored by sedentary activities: I have yet to see a kid who couldn't sit through their favorite movie. and the OP didn't say he disliked reading, in fact I got the opposite impression from the fact that he tries so hard, he described how hard it was for him to focus on it for even a full page. That's not a lack of interest, or even a dislike of being sedentary(if such a thing even exists), that is a lack of the ability to focus.
I dislike some movies and some books, I can still sit through them if I try, and i'm not distracted and staring into space every paragraph. I can watch an entire shitty movie, or read a chapter of a shitty book in one sitting. Am I super? able to focus well beyond and above what the average person can? I think not, just ask any guy who's ever been to a movie he can't stand with is GF. It's not that hard to focus, it's just not entertaining.
Once again, just to be extra clear: The OP never said he disliked reading, he said he was physically incapable of focusing on it like most people. That's a problem. If he just dislikes reading and was exaggerating about the details of how hard it was for him to focus, then yeah, he probably just doesn't like reading. If he was being serious, then he described the second worst case of ADD/ADHD I have ever heard of, and more than half-a-dozen of my family work in the medical industry, and a close family friend of mine(Not the kid I talked about earlier) has moderate to severe ADHD.
