• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

  • mr_account@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.