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What the fuck. How could bolding half the word make me stutter in my own mind? This is absolutely unreadable. This gave me anxiety the moment i looked at it. This is like that one paragraph that talks about the letters being rearranged. Complete gibberish.
to be honest, it might be just me but i find this even more oberwhelming. its like the text is saying “THINK FAST, READ FAST GO GO GO GO” and yeah idk its more overwhelming
Might be tho because i was a bit stressed out by meself when i wrote this comment, now if i relax i actually just read faster my point stands tho
I thought too fast and now I’m sick
I picked up bullet journaling, writing down by hand in meetings, and the occasional journaling in my bullet journal.
It helps slow down that speeding brain of mine. Often speeding to nowhere, I find.
I kept getting distracted by future bold letters and had to reread multiple times. The wording is also strange.
Wow. Web sites should have this option.
There is a Firefox extension that does this. Or at least there used to be.
Yes please.
This appears to operate on the same speed-reading technique of “read only the spaces.”
It’s considered a beginner technique because although faster methods can be learned, this method can be used by many/most readers on their very first try.
Edit: also I’m not sure it has anything to do with neurodivergence.
Attention neurodivergent community - this bionic reading method is absolutely mind blowing. Your eyes scan the first bold letters and your brain center automatically completes the words. It lets you read twice as fast, is less overwhelming and helps you to stay focused. You will feel much more productive and a greater sense of achievement which will boost your confidence and makes you overall feel more positive. Let me know in the comments if this bionic reading method works for you.
Normal text for reference
This one feels easier to read. Guess it doesn’t work for everybody, huh.
Doesn’t work
I’m very skeptical, this text was easy, I need to look at a more difficult text using this. I don’t think it would actually work
It would.
Damn, it actually works.
But how the hell does it work? How…fucking brain is still a mystery
I feel like you could take a piece of text and do this using python. I should try at some point.
Now I read it twice longer
Is’t aslo vrey esay to raed olny the frsit and lsat lteters
The OpenDyslexic font helped with me. Does a similar thing.
I’ve found with this type of text that if I try to read it normally, I struggle to process the change between the start and end of each word, and read much more slowly. If I try to read quickly though, it flows, as if I’m skimming the words but still understanding them properly.
It’s a very strange feeling :)
Oddly enough, I find myself processing text with a regular font in both ways from time to time. Sometimes it flows like I’m reading half of the words but still absorbing every bit. Other times I notice the end of a paragraph and can’t tell you what I just read.
Yeah I had a Firefox plugin earlier that turned all text to bionic, and I loved and hated it at the same time
Especially since it feels like you’re reading in 1fps. It feels like stuttering
It’s a loosening of control, I think. Let the wheel turn on its own, you’re still there to steer as needed, but let the inertia do the work. 🤓
what plugin?
I think it was bionic reader.
I don’t want to link to the plugin, since I don’t really know if it’s safe to use so evaluate yourself
