yeah, this really took me out of reading for a long time. Just base-level “reading” where you kind of process the words as an activity, without actually absorbing anything.
started medication recently, and hope that it’ll help with this. i miss reading ;.;
I have a really hard time absorbing people speaking when i’m not interacting with them, and being understimulated and not knowing what to do with my hands when i am able to focus on audiobooks. I want to love them and podcasts, but they just aren’t it for me D:
I’m glad they work so well for you and others, though!!
Audiobooks are fantastic for me while riding a bike or walking on a treadmill - something to physically do and something to mentally do.
I can’t just sit and listen to them though.
EDIT: Oh and repetitive tasks - I got back into audiobooks when I started making chainmail again. Which reminds me… I haven’t finished that thing I started a year ago…
Let me introduce you to my database full of projects, fantastic product- or business ideas, things I want to sew, or construct in the garden, or things I offered to do for someone else because it’s something I’m really good at (but definitely don’t have the time for); all of it meticulously researched, sometimes for days at a time (while I was definitely supposed to be doing something else). Most of it already started, and then promptly back-burner’d because another new, shiny, completely brilliant idea reared its gorgeous head (rinse, repeat, ad infinitum).
yeah, this really took me out of reading for a long time. Just base-level “reading” where you kind of process the words as an activity, without actually absorbing anything.
started medication recently, and hope that it’ll help with this. i miss reading ;.;
Have you tried audiobooks? I have a far easier time with them and most everything you’d want to read is available in audiobook form
I have a really hard time absorbing people speaking when i’m not interacting with them, and being understimulated and not knowing what to do with my hands when i am able to focus on audiobooks. I want to love them and podcasts, but they just aren’t it for me D:
I’m glad they work so well for you and others, though!!
Audiobooks are fantastic for me while riding a bike or walking on a treadmill - something to physically do and something to mentally do.
I can’t just sit and listen to them though.
EDIT: Oh and repetitive tasks - I got back into audiobooks when I started making chainmail again. Which reminds me… I haven’t finished that thing I started a year ago…
That one thing you started a year ago? 🤔
Let me introduce you to my database full of projects, fantastic product- or business ideas, things I want to sew, or construct in the garden, or things I offered to do for someone else because it’s something I’m really good at (but definitely don’t have the time for); all of it meticulously researched, sometimes for days at a time (while I was definitely supposed to be doing something else). Most of it already started, and then promptly back-burner’d because another new, shiny, completely brilliant idea reared its gorgeous head (rinse, repeat, ad infinitum).