Aspies: Slow Reading Speed?

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I subvocalise so I can only read as quickly as the voice in my head can. Sometimes I reach an ultra-focused point where I can read without vocalising, but most of the time I can't do that with any kind of comprehension. Someone described to me how they visualise everything when they read and it didn't make any sense to me. When I read I see words.

I read pretty slow thou my reading comprehension was a grade higher than my peers when I was in school. I'm dyslexic thou so that could be why.

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"Earthling: Voted slow. If I'm working with a text, not "just reading" it, and trying to remember the info long-term, I will have to read it slowly and multiple times.
In school I was often the slowest to finish reading.

I "can" read faster than I think, it's just that I don't trust it at all. I tend to mentally doze off and get distracted when I read fast. The best application for this might be reading short newspaper articles."

Im the same. I can read very fast, I was of top 5% in reading speed at school, but I often fail to comprehend the information on a satisfactory level, and tend to read it about 4 times+. When I read fast I am working in a mode where I identify already familiar structures, and this is not satisfactory if the intention is to learn. I tend to think a bit mathemathical, so when I read fast I put the different structures/parts of a text together, and thus I am perceived to comprehend the meaning very fast. But as stated over, this is not on a satisfactory level, I would like to understand most information at the greatest depths obtainable, and this takes time, and rehearsal.

Are you even sure the average is to read as fast as you talk? I think it’s much faster, so I don’t know what to vote, because I usually subvocalize, so my reading speed is pegged to my talking one, but I believe this is actually very slow.

I was surprised to learn, a few years ago, that most people do not subvocalize. This probably means I never quite learned to read. On the other hand, I’ve always paid a lot of attention both to the pronunciation and the spelling of every word, and to every punctuation mark, and I do recognize words and phrases graphically, but generally feel the urge to subvocalize them. I have to make a great mental effort not to, and then I read significantly faster, but I’m not confident I won’t miss a lot of crucial information this way, so I never made it a habit.

What I’ve observed in most neurotypicals I’ve interacted with through a written medium is that they seldom bother to process more than a tiny fraction of the words I write, so they completely misinterpret my point. This annoys me a lot, because it seems one of those everyday status issues I naturally ignore. No matter who writes something for me, if I read it at all, I read it with my full attention, processing every word and trying seriously to make sense of it; doing otherwise strikes me as very disrespectful, and I don’t see myself in a position to treat anyone like that. I wonder if they do the same to their boss, for example.

I once did a speed reading course and in the test to determine your reading speed as it was before the course I scored above average alto my ability to retain the information after one reading is not perfect.

If the information is presented in a two-page way (like a book), i read *extremely* fast, single page texts (like a forum post) just regular fast. Just by skimming a text i can get full retention: the "speed reading" technique for summarizing is enough for me to achieve full retention.

If i get a double page (or collumn, like a newspaper) text, i can do this on both pages at the same time (one page per eye) and set the right order while turning the page, which doubles my speed. I have read all of the harry potter books cover to cover in two days, with full retention (first ever read), while even so-called 'fast' readers only do one, maybe two, books per day