Nah, it's something called Bionic Reading that can help make reading faster for people with ADHD. It's kinda pseudoscientific tho - I find it works decently for me but it may just be placebo
Never heard of this, interesting. Read some text with this, and I have a feeling it slows me down, as my eyes stop at each word now. When I read normally my eyes just roll on the text. But afaik I don't have ADHD.
It's like beer goggles, but it made me functionally illiterate. I could read each word individually and yet they meant nothing since I couldn't retain the context. The effort involved in decoding each word meant the rest of the words in the sentence were long gone from my memory. All I remember is the word friendship because I said it out loud at some point.
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idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 271d
Why some letters are bolder than others? Is it some kind of sbeve meme?
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 39 pts · 271d
Nah, it's something called Bionic Reading that can help make reading faster for people with ADHD. It's kinda pseudoscientific tho - I find it works decently for me but it may just be placebo
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 271d
Never heard of this, interesting. Read some text with this, and I have a feeling it slows me down, as my eyes stop at each word now. When I read normally my eyes just roll on the text. But afaik I don't have ADHD.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 271d
The stopping at each word is the point of it for me (I do have ADHD). It makes sure I actually read it and not just scan over it without absorbing it.
A microsecond pause every word is a lot faster than reading a passage 4 times in order to understand it.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 271d
any sans-serif font that's used for a text that's longer than a couple of words is a hindrance for reading
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 271d
I've always found that interesting because I find serif fonts much more difficult to read
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 271d
That's bionic reading. It helps some people (like those with ADHD) focus on the text better.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 271d
Enough about the bionic font, where does the quote come from?
LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 270d
It's from a webnovel, The Legendary Mechanic Chapter 1040ish
phaedrus@piefed.world · 9 pts · 271d
luciole@beehaw.org · 5 pts · 271d
What's going on with the font weight? Accessibility measure?
Paradachshund@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 271d
It is, but personally for me it has the opposite effect. I get distracted by it.
stankmut@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 271d
It's like beer goggles, but it made me functionally illiterate. I could read each word individually and yet they meant nothing since I couldn't retain the context. The effort involved in decoding each word meant the rest of the words in the sentence were long gone from my memory. All I remember is the word friendship because I said it out loud at some point.
LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 270d
My bad guys, I don't even see the bionic font anymore
morphballganon@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 271d
Horribly distracting text weight inequality.
Do better.