Reading fast??
1 min readBycatherine crabb
I have a way above average reading speed at around 700 wpm. This is not recommended for comprehension of the book but I can read that fast normally and understand the book just fine. Not many people I know get even close to that and only the other people with aphantasia I know get close to that speed. I was wondering if any of the other people here experience the same thing or if that's just some weird thing I do.
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Justin•recently•edited
I do read extremely fast but never fictional books... always non-fiction (biographies, politics, history, military etc...). Lately though I've been wondering whether I actually take in any of these facts...
Since finding out I had aphantasia (aged early 50s!) it has explained a lot about my character traits. Recently I have tried to challenge this "never fiction" book reading - as a child I really enjoyed Enid Blyton etc...) - and so tried, ever so hard and slowly, to digest The Brothers Karamazov, even with YouTube book guides etc... and yet I can barely remember the various characters. With no minds eye, I think my head is full (up?) of words... just words.
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Kyrce Swenson•recently
Not sure if you’ll see this after all this time but yes—I’m pretty sure aphantasia is why I read absurdly fast.
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