Can you read well?

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if i'm interested, i can read a 300-400 page book in a day but if i'm not interested, i find reading really difficult!

Actually it not that i cant read its more that i cant concentrate enough to read long things but if i could concentrate i would be reading all the time

I would get checked out for adhd. I am.

My mum suggested that im gonna ask the specialist next time i see her.

I can read very well... and it's either that most of my classmates are bad readers or I'm above-average level for my age.

But if I have to read and understand, it depends on the subject and my level of concentration. I sometimes read boring paragraphs 5 times without really understanding them.

Paragraphs shouldn't take up more than an entire page. Seriously, I understand that some paragraphs are song and some are short, but dear Lord! I shouldn't be able to fall asleep in the middle of a paragraph from how long it is! They're quite similar to long sentences; DO NOT MAKE THEM THAT RIDICULOUSLY LONG!

Yep, and I´ll read anything as long I´m not to tired and it interests me.

I have no problems reading in fact at times, I can read like 200+ page books in a few hours if uninterrupted and the book interests me.

I can read perfectly, I'm just rarely interested.

I read well and often,but I have always had the Scotopic/Irlen "halo and waves",which slows me down on dense bodies of text.It can be aggravated by allergy/sinus issues,or fatigue.Prescription glasses didn't change it,and filters only help marginally.I really,really wish I'd known of these things in school.It certainly does help if I'm actually interested in what I'm reading. That said,I still read well and often,just much slower than I'd wish to.

I can read well, although when I was younger I was not really interested in reading.

If I read a paragraph and then read it out loud, I tend to switch the words around and make my own variation of the topic. It sounds the same in the end but has a slight alteration to it, I don't know why I do it.

I can read well, don't like to read unless its something that is interesting to me. If its not I don't seem to retain any of it. I'd rather read a "how to" manual on something I'll probably never do than a novel. Maybe the AS or the ADHD. I'm both.

I read very well, but if it's something that I'm not interested in, I can't retain the information for anything. That was a huge problem in school, teachers asking if I'd read something and I'd say yes, and honestly I had, but they didn't understand why I didn't do well on the test over it if I had read it, thus, calling me a liar, lol.

I've always been an excallant reader-people have been so surprised what I have read and learned from books I love reading and will continue til I'm old and...well more toothless

Yes, and I enjoy it very much. I believe the key to my success in school was that I could read well. I barely spoke English in kindergarten (my first language was German), but in first grade, I was reading at fifth grade level. In sixth grade, my vocabulary scores were at twelfth grade level, the highest level the test measured. Today, I still love to read and can cover a large amount of reading material in a short time. I also love to write and do word puzzles.

Hi zombie,

I can read very accurately (I did a SAT not too long ago and had 760 on the reading part), yet I have the exact same problem you describe. So it doesn't mean you're not smart! I bet you have the same problem when a teacher talks for a long time explaining something in class, that you pick up only a small part of what they're saying? The reason I have this problem is that I need to visualize what I read or hear before it can become meaningful in any way, and it's just not possible to visualize all words as fast as I'm reading or hearing them, so most of the words remain a meaningless blur. Do you recognize this? The trick is to be selective, i.e. train yourself to quickly spot those words that are important, so that the, say, 20% of the text or speech that you pick up any information from happens to be the essential part.