/lit/ - Literature

>>15118673
Don't beat yourself up OP. Be kind to yourself. Reading takes practice like anything else. Do you exercise? What's your diet like? Getting regular exercise clears your head and makes it easier to concentrate on things I find.

>>14278456
>Dad taught me how to read
>We read Walking With Dinosaurs together when I was 7
>We read all of His Dark Materials together when I was 13
>Read It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis together when I was a teenager
>Read Crime and Punishment together
>Currently both reading My Antonia by Willa Cather
>Regularly call him up to chat and talk about books even when I’m busy at uni

I love my dad. Read to your damn kids /lit/.

>>14088210
two good points
i think what i was really going for was the whole "you get out what you put in" idea. wouldn't it be nice to know that you helped someone else discover something they didn't know they would enjoy?

>>13773279
>>13773262

Thank you both for the reassurance, that I really should stop giving a shit about what other people think so much. It's probably just the sort of high-functioning autism overcorrecting that's really driving me to want to conform to other people's expectations. Early intervention is one hell of an experience. I should probably celebrate that I've got enough smarts to actually be able to make it through a good chunk of Marxist theory, and work on improving praxis, and stop feeling the almost compulsive need to "check notes" so to speak.