Problems when starting reading

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I am diagnosed Aspergers and I find it very difficult to commit to starting to read anything whether a website or a book and I tend to just lose patience immediately when I try to. Sometimes I'll be able to get myself into "reading mode" and read like a whole book in the space of a couple of days but this is very rare. It seems to be an "all or nothing" situation. So either don't read or read the whole thing.

Anyone else have this problem or similar?

I faced this kind of a problem once. All I did was, remind myself why do I have to read this? If that answer does not convince me, I force myself to start to read. By the time I am done with 4-5 pages, I will be in the reading mode.

I think the problem is the context switch from "whatever mode you are in"(for ex: social mode) to reading mode.

What about building 'reading time' into your routine. This helps me because I know that when it's a certain time it's reading time and I want to read because it's what I always do at that time...it kind of using the ASD aspects to aid you.