I have adhd like WhyEssEff, and I struggle with focus while reading, especially after catching covid. And I agree with her that you should NOT USE CHATGPT TO SUBSTITUTE ACCESSIBILITY TOOLS. It will erode your mental capacity even further, there’s research about it.
While I have my own quirks and rituals to help me focus when reading, I have friends with higher support needs than mine, and they swear by audiobooks or other accessibility tools like text-to-speech or sequential readers that read one word at a time (if a wall of text is a sensory impediment for you). Some of them are open source or easily pirated, too.
Please put your accessibility needs to connect to the rich world of literature in the hands of people who understand our struggles and develop tools based on science, and not on Sam Altman’s bullshit machine that will inevitably remove the humanity of any piece of writing out into it.
Honestly my mental faculties are disconcertingly a lot less sharp than they used to be, and I’m not that old (I guess I’m middle aged at this point? Still feels like I’m young in my late thirties); admittedly the last thing I’d need is an AI tool making things infinitely worse. I need to try and use audible more; I own more than a few (good) books on them and should force myself to work on my declining focus.
I feel just about the same, and it’s been humbling realizing I now need to accommodate for myself if I want to have a relatively normal life, while before I just rawdogged adhd symptoms and still got stuff done. It’s never too young or too old to realize we need a bit of support. If someone with much more visible disability told me they’re too young to need their mobility tools, I would correctly recognize that as bs. Same difference with mental struggles.
Hope you don’t have to force yourself, just try different things other people have and see if they work.
I have adhd like WhyEssEff, and I struggle with focus while reading, especially after catching covid. And I agree with her that you should NOT USE CHATGPT TO SUBSTITUTE ACCESSIBILITY TOOLS. It will erode your mental capacity even further, there’s research about it.
While I have my own quirks and rituals to help me focus when reading, I have friends with higher support needs than mine, and they swear by audiobooks or other accessibility tools like text-to-speech or sequential readers that read one word at a time (if a wall of text is a sensory impediment for you). Some of them are open source or easily pirated, too.
Please put your accessibility needs to connect to the rich world of literature in the hands of people who understand our struggles and develop tools based on science, and not on Sam Altman’s bullshit machine that will inevitably remove the humanity of any piece of writing out into it.
Honestly my mental faculties are disconcertingly a lot less sharp than they used to be, and I’m not that old (I guess I’m middle aged at this point? Still feels like I’m young in my late thirties); admittedly the last thing I’d need is an AI tool making things infinitely worse. I need to try and use audible more; I own more than a few (good) books on them and should force myself to work on my declining focus.
I feel just about the same, and it’s been humbling realizing I now need to accommodate for myself if I want to have a relatively normal life, while before I just rawdogged adhd symptoms and still got stuff done. It’s never too young or too old to realize we need a bit of support. If someone with much more visible disability told me they’re too young to need their mobility tools, I would correctly recognize that as bs. Same difference with mental struggles.
Hope you don’t have to force yourself, just try different things other people have and see if they work.