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fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2010-09-19 05:01 pm
[ SECRET POST #1355 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1355 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 295 secrets from Secret Submission Post #194.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ], [ 1 - take it to comments ], [ 1 - personal attack ], [ 1 - unreadable ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
OP
(Anonymous) 2010-09-20 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)When I said that I have 'difficulty reading' I didn't mean that I couldn't read. I can read perfectly fine; I am a university student and I have to read lots of things/books every week. My eyesight is poor, but I wear glasses, so there is nothing wrong with my eyes either. Furthermore I am very certain that I have no ADD/ADHD since I can be very focused on things, just not reading apparently.
Maybe all of these misunderstandings could have been prevented if I said that it's problably a patience issue rather than a medical issue. Since I HAVE to read so many things (more times than not very BORING things) for school, I see reading more as a chore and cannot get any fun out of it, let alone be patient with it. But I only thought of that in hindsight; after the secret was made. But thanks for all the suggestions anyway. I made sure I -read- them all.
Re: OP
If this bothers you that much, go re-train yourself on something short, fun, and well-written--so not textbooks and certainly not the million-page extruded fantasy product crapfests people in fandom usually like. (Though I agree that The Neverending Story is fairly short and quite good.)
Reading is a skill just like riding a bike is. Just because you've learned enough not to fall on your face on the way to the store doesn't mean you're going to find a 10-mile loop around the park fun, much less entering a race or going on one of those biking vacations. The better a reader you are, the less effort it takes, and the more fun it is. Some people are naturally a lot more talented, and those people usually spend their entire childhoods practicing their reading skills, so by the time you get to university, there is a massive, massive, massive gap between how a "non-reader" experiences reading and how an avid reader does. It's probably possible to close that gap, but most people don't find it worth the effort. It's like seriously taking up ballet all of a sudden just because all of your friends have enjoyed their 20 years of classes. (Seriously, check out anything on primary school and literacy: educators are obsessed with this topic.)
Also, I have no idea if you have any hidden disorders or if you just prefer riding your bike to sitting on your butt, but people with ADD/ADHD can also be very focused. What they can't be is kind of focused. If you'd said "it's a patience issue", people would still have had the same responses because that's exactly what everyone with all of those conditions they were describing says before they finally get diagnosed.