/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18816245]

How can I get into reading as someone with ADHD? I always excelled at reading in school, but I just can't get into books

[Anonymous No.18816258]

>>18816245
ADHD isn't real you retard. Get off the internet.

[Anonymous No.18816304]

>>18816245
Unless you developed ADHD as a child chances are it's the ((artificial)) kind. It has to do with instant gratification messing up your reward brains reward system.

[Anonymous No.18816308]

>>18816245
ADHD isn't real just sit down and shut up faggot. Stop using attention span-destroying mediums like Twitter and Tik Tok and stop blaming the results of your bad habits on "DURRR MUH MENTAL ILLNESS DURRR". You're not mentally ill you're just a lazy entitled narcissist.

[Anonymous No.18816310]

>>18816308
>>18816304
>>18816258
Based hard love

[Anonymous No.18816317]

>>18816245
the only real mental illnesses are schizophrenia/psychosis and OCD. the rest is a meme

[Anonymous No.18816328]

>>18816317
Actual severe autism is definitely real, but those people are barely functioning.

[Anonymous No.18816343]

It's not ADHD, it's your addiction to the Internet you fucking lazy ass zoomer.

[Anonymous No.18816354]

>>18816328
I really dont consider autism a mental illness, its a very different group of disease

[Anonymous No.18816366]

>>18816304
I was diagnosed when I was 15, but I've had it all my life. I have never once paid attention to a teacher in class even when I was in elementary school, long before I ever had a phone or unlimited time on screens
>>18816308
>Stop using attention span-destroying mediums like Twitter and Tik Tok
Good job you fixed it. I'll stop using shit like that and it will be just like when I had heavy restrictions on screen time. I still had just as shit of an attention span, but what do I or my doctors know, you're the genius here

[Anonymous No.18816382]

>>18816366
It's a scheme, of course the (((doctors))) are going to say you have an illness, just so that they can sell you "medicine"

Adderall is literally meth, don't buy into their scheme, not only you lose your money, you may end up schizo

[Anonymous No.18816396]

>>18816366
nigger you have conscious willpower, stop being a faggot. Make a fucking effort whenever you notice your attention drifting and focus instead of sinking into defeatism. Or are you telling me you re completely under the control of external influences? Faggot

[Anonymous No.18816406]

>>18816382
>>18816396
Your attention span is controlled by your brain and your brain is a physical object that can malfunction just like any other part of your body. How is this simple logic lost on so many brainlets?

[Anonymous No.18816414]

>>18816343
this, i was in rehab for a month and all i had were books, radio, and sessions between meals. movie time was ok but watching casino and boondock saints 3 times in one week got old quick. during that time, reading was really fun. i try to limit my time on the internet and gaming mainly at night. of course im fucking that up right now

[Anonymous No.18816417]

>>18816366
Were you uppity to the point where you couldn't sit still?
If what you said about excelling in school is true, it could be that you were ahead and found your courses mind numbingly boring which made it look like you had ((ADHD))

[Anonymous No.18816437]

>>18816366
>the same people who caused the opioid epidemic told me that my lack of discipline is mental illness so clearly they're right

[Anonymous No.18816447]

>>18816417
I leaned mostly towards inattentive, but I was more restless when I was younger. I didn't excel at school, but I was reading at a 12th grade level by the time I was in 6th grade

[Anonymous No.18816463]

>>18816406
We're trying to tell you that your actions and habits have an effect on your thoughts and attention span. When you browse and scroll 4chan or social media all day, you're constantly making your brain get addicted to that dopamine. The act of scrolling becomes instant gratification. That's why ADHD is so over diagnosed now, it's a problem with the youth becoming addicted to that kind of instant gratification.

What you can do is start breaking away from those habits and stop making shitty threads/scrolling 4chan, it doesn't have to be in an instant, just work through it. Also start exercising and having a good diet, your physical fitness is linked to the state of your mind.

[Anonymous No.18816492]

>>18816463
I'm sure that will help, but read>>18816366

[Anonymous No.18816511]

>>18816406
I don't think you have ADHD, I think youre just retarded. The brain is a self-learning organ, which can correct behaviour through incentive and labour when it detects something bad. Clearly you don't think your ADHD is bad enough or you're just too lazy to put in the effort to correct it
Either way you've proven to be a faggot who only makes excuses

[Anonymous No.18816566]

>>18816511
Cool. Go tell tards with down syndrome and people with Alzheimer's that. I'm sure they'll be thrilled to learn that you found a cure

[Anonymous No.18816569]

>>18816245
just keep trying, retard

[Anonymous No.18816599]

>>18816566
Shit comparison. Adhd is not the same as down syndrome or Alzheimer's. If you actually practiced every single day to focus on a specific thing for a year, you'd realize how much of a faggot you were being all the time

[Anonymous No.18816754]

>>18816258
>>18816304
>>18816343
theres reason to suspect that its actually vaccine-induced.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/22/8674
>Remarkably, ZERO of the 561 unvaccinated patients in the study had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to 5.3% of the (partially and fully) vaccinated.

[Anonymous No.18816786]

>>18816258
>>18816304
>>18816308
>>18816310
>>18816317
>>18816343
>>18816382
>>18816396
>>18816417
>>18816437
>>18816463
>>18816511
>>18816569
>>18816599
Low IQ faggots who don’t know anything about the brain or human biology except from popular “science” books and shitty youtube videos. Good job, keep up the retard takes.


>>18816245
It may seem counter-intuitive, but reading books on an iPad with an app that has a read-out-loud functionality (e.g. VoiceDreamReader - unfortunately not free) may help. Obviously, disable all notifications (no banners, reminders and shit like that) while reading and put it on silent. Give it a try, see if it helps. Library Genesis may help you with finding epubs/pdfs for your books.

Also, needless to say medication is helpful for many who have ADHD. If you haven’t tried it, you might want to give it a shot.

Lastly, don’t listen to the faggots in this thread who don’t know what ADHD is and how it affects people. They cannot and will not be able to help you. The “ADHD deniers” have never helped anyone who suffers from ADHD.

ADHD is highly heritable (= differences in ADHD symptoms are mostly caused by genetic differences, **not** social, environmental or parental differences). GWAS studies (which identify the specific genes that cause a certain trait) have been successful identifying the underlying genes.
ADHD has been identified by medical professionals since the ~18/19th century (see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4694551/?report=classic ), so no, it’s the fault of screens, porn or some other crap.

t. an actual psychologist

[Anonymous No.18816835]

>>18816786
>le science
Cope

Academic psychology is dog shit

[Anonymous No.18816861]

>>18816786
what a fucking retard. ADHD is either 1) socially induced phenomena by the pharmaceutical corporation to generate a higher probability of faith in the system and/or 2) vaccine-induced

[Anonymous No.18816882]

>>18816786
>t. an actual psychologist
Stopped reading there right there. Fucking kike shilling (((tablets))), (((apps))) and (((meds))).

[Anonymous No.18816997]

>>18816786
>t. an actual psychologist
aka professional bulshitter

[Anonymous No.18817072]

>>18816882
>stopped reading at the very end
Very good burn, anon. Keep it up.

>>18816835
Agreed. However, clinical psychology ~= biology / neuroscience / medicine, and these fields still pretty solid compared to the rest of psych. (Still not perfect, but no science is)

>>18816861
Again, you’re not helping anyone who suffers from OPs condition. I used to get mad at ignorant people like you, but (thank god) ppl like you don’t have any influence in treating patients. So it’s no biggie really.
Nonetheless, if you think you have something interesting to contribute to the science of this topic, you’re very welcome to publish your findings/theories. psyarxiv/osf.io is free for everyone, so no excuses that big pharma or evil journals won’t publish your views :)

>>18816882
I see what you mean. If you want to learn more about it, I recommend this article which gives you a nice overview https://adhd.gr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/faraone2015.pdf
(however it’s already outdated in some regards, still good intro though)

There’s still discussion about the prevalence of the condition (e.g. over-diagnosis in the US, youngest kids in a class more likely to erroneously get a ADHD diagnosis because they are less mature/more active, differences in prevalence between ethnicities, rising rates of diagnoses, etc.)

[Anonymous No.18817094]

>>18817072
Fuck me, I obviously didn’t want to quote >>18816882
twice. At the end I meant to quote >>18816997

>>18816786
“it’s *not* the fault of screens, porn or some other crap”
Forgot the not


Alright, it’s late. Can’t write proper sentences anymore. good night anons

[Anonymous No.18817096]

>>18816245
Convince the doctor to give you amphetamines, it works well for a lot of ADHD people.

[Anonymous No.18817106]

>>18817094
i hope you lose sleep tonight

[Anonymous No.18817122]

I have ADHD and i enjoy reading more than watching movies and the such. My advice is to stop being a retard and blaming your condition for not wsnting to read

[Anonymous No.18817581]

>>18816245
Just read the fucking book

[Anonymous No.18817589]

>>18816245
>How can I get into reading as someone with ADHD?
By getting on 70mg Elvanse/Vyvanse. Sure did work for me and now I'm reading atleast 4 hours every single day. Literally a huge fucking lifechanger for me in every single regard.

[Anonymous No.18817817]

>>18816245
Read books you actually like. That's it. That's all you have to do. I got ADHD and have no problems reading

>>18817589
You can't live the rest of your life dependent on meds. Yeah I've been on them, I know how amazing they are. Didn't even get side effects. If you ever desire to be something but another single-focused cog in the machine, you'll have to stop the drugs.

[Anonymous No.18817868]

>>18817589
Amphetamines make my focus on one of four things: Video games, porn, Wikipedia, or my own thoughts
>>18816861
>>18816599
The frontal lobe controls your ability to pay attention. Are you telling me that it's literally impossible for the frontal lobe to have a defect? Out of all the things in the universe this is the one thing that cannot malfunction under any circumstances whatsoever?
>>18816382
No, Desoxyn is literally meth and it's an effective medication for ADHD and weight loss
>>18816786
Thanks for an actual answer

[Anonymous No.18818009]

>>18816245
So
OP
I have literally the best "life hack" for you.
I have ADHD and epilepsy. And reading is very difficult for me. I'll spare you my life story, but essentially I went 26 years and only read 3 books including the Bible and a book for a date. But then I found a subject I was very passionate about and it drove me to read despite how difficult it is for me.

Luckily, I found a way to cheat the system.

Surely you know about Library Genesis and all the sites to get free digital books, right?

Well, you can use a text to speech plug in, or just use the one in Microsoft Edge which is pretty good, and you can turn all those free digital books into free audiobooks. The voice isn't always as good as a professional reader, but it's definitely good enough.

[Anonymous No.18819050]

>>18816245
Nig

[Anonymous No.18819070]

Audiobooks bro. Do them while doing something easy to distract you but not overly taxing. I play braindead videogames and listen.

[Anonymous No.18819092]

>>18816786
kek at all the seething Jordan Petersoncels replying to this

[Anonymous No.18819119]

>>18816308
ADHD is very real. I was diagnosed when I saw 8 years old back when kids played outside on their bikes instead of staying home on computers.

Basically the messaging system between neurons doesn't function like it does between typical individuals. Eat shit

[Anonymous No.18819140]

>>18816382
>>18816396
>>18816437
Clueless. I read every day. Reading is an escape for me. despite caring very much about reading and directing my full attention towards it, I have moments where I have to read the same sentence 10 times in a row to focus on it.

It has nothing to do with discipline. There are over 50 chemicals the brain uses to transfer information. Some of these chemicals are not released and reloaded effectively.

This is a matter of Neuroanatomy.

This is NOT a matter of psychology.

[Anonymous No.18819171]

>>18816882
>Stopped reading there right there
"I stopped reading at the very end of the post"

Literally howling rn(right now)

[Anonymous No.18819198]

>>18819140
>I have moments where I have to read the same sentence 10 times in a row to focus on it.
So you are just retarded?
same the brain fog has returned

[Anonymous No.18819212]

>>18816786
>reading books on an iPad with an app that has a read-out-loud functionality
I had to do this on my phone with an app called "@voice aloud reader" on Play Store (free). Now that I'm done with that novel I decided to move onto comic books as I believe the illustrations, fewer texts, and shorter stories may relieve me.

[Anonymous No.18819220]

>>18819198
>So you are just retarded?
I took a really intense IQ test(probably took 45 minutes to complete, it was really good, not like those shitty 10 minute tests you see everywhere). It said my IQ was 148. I'm inclined to believe it.

I simply have a disorder that negatively affects communication between neurons.

[Anonymous No.18819222]

>>18818009
>>18819070

Audiobooks are based if you can't focus the eyes long enough, they helped me get really into non-fiction, since it's possible to zone out and back in. Three recs:

Libby by overdrive, library card parleyed into decent free collection
LibriVox, wikipedia for audiobooks
Audible(I know) has a very loose refund policy, can easily double/triple dip on a credit

[Anonymous No.18819720]

>>18816245
>ADHD
I have ADHD, you just have to practice more and find things to read that you really like, try pirating them to find it easily and when you find it, you can buy it if you want

[Anonymous No.18820111]

>>18819720
I think humor would be what I could most easily focus on. I read through the first 20 or so pages of Good Omens at Barnes and Noble the other day, but was unsure about it so I didn't buy it. I'm not sure if it gets funnier later on or not

[Anonymous No.18820123]

Flip through books for interesting parts. There's no need for reading nonfiction cover to cover. No story is being told so just pick a chapter that looks interesting and read that.

[Anonymous No.18820161]

>>18819220
Where was the test
>>18820123
This

[Anonymous No.18821815]

>>18816258
>>18816308

this.
Don't fall for big pharma memes, or it gonna burn your brain.

[Anonymous No.18822120]

>>18816786
I'm not on the best terms with your field of study anon, but thank you for genuinely trying to help
Thread is full of idiots peddling their bullshit

[Anonymous No.18822132]

>>18816861
>>18816882
meds, now

[Anonymous No.18822145]

>>18822132
>Don't like meds? Take meds. Don't like being told to take meds? I've got meds for that too.

Amazing how the system produces such effective enslaver-slaves like you. You a tranny too, pillslave?

[Anonymous No.18822166]

>>18816343
>an iPad with an app that has a read-out-loud functionality (e.g. VoiceDreamReader - unfortunately not free) may help.
might as well just listen to an audiobook at that point, and that's not reading.

[Anonymous No.18822180]

>>18816308
Yes, this.

[Anonymous No.18822186]

>>18822145
>muh trannies
You have brain rot due to being too online. This is solved by less screentime, yes
OP's problem isn't

[Anonymous No.18822223]

>>18822186
take your pills good goyim

[Anonymous No.18822388]

>>18822223
I probably dislike pharma more than you. I hate the change from social/mind focus to pure chemistry as well. I have never taken or been suggested pills, either (Can you say the same?).
I'm just not a retard about it. Schizoposting and anons like
>>18816308
>>18816258
>>18816310
>>18822180
who probably fucked some aspects of their lives due to videogames or whatever projecting on the OP are unhelpful and deluded.