Are you a slow reader?

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Also, do you always (or frequently) feel tired after you read? Does it just kind of drain you? Regardless of whether or not you find the reading material to be fascinating or boring or anywhere in between.

I have always been a slow reader, and the higher up in my education I get, the more it feels to be a problem.

Have you ever done anything to try to become a faster reader? Do those speed reading courses really work? Is this something I can talk to a psychologist about? I've never been to one before.

I wouldn't consider it a huge issue, but I'm just kind of sick of this.

I'd say I'm so-so with reading speed. It depends on how sleepy I am while I'm reading.

sometimes when i read, my mind wanders to something else and I become concious again three pages later. What the heck happened? The same thing happens when I'm watching tv, no matter how entertaining it is. Frosted Mini Wheats is supposed to help you stay full and focused, so I'm gonna try eating them and see if i can focus better when reading books. Also i heard that it helps clear your mind when you meditate, so im gonna meditate before every morning

I hope you're joking about the Frosted Mini Wheats...they're loaded with sugar which can't possibly be good for anyone's focus, except possibly from the very brief sugar high. They just want your money.

My issue with reading is definitely, in part, a problem with staying focused. But the times when I am actually pretty focused, I'm still a slow reader and it still tires me out.

Nope, I'm a fast reader.

I like reading, and want to do it so bad, but it's so hard for me to keep focus on it... no matter how I'm feeling.

I get so sleepy reading them too. It sucks... when I'm finally able to read, it's enjoyable... but it's so hard to actually get to doing that. I've found that walking while reading helps that. At that point, it's just focusing on the book. Which is still difficult. Like every page I lose focus.

This might be of assistance: http://www.spreeder.com/

I read at an average pace. I often get tired, but I frequently get up and move around.

I am a slow reader I think, almost everyone in my class read faster that I do, that is mostly due to the fact that I have to read twice some words because I confuse some words. I can read quickly but I'll tend to miss my line and read the same line twice or things like that.

I'm quite a slow reader. I'm very easily distracted, even though I enjoying, this is probably a part of it!

I'm a fast reader.

No, I read fast and I like it.

I find I get tired writing when I'm under strain. I really notice this on the few occasions when I'm ill in bed with a medium-term illness like flu or glandular fever -- if I get tired of reading and try to write stuff like a journal entry by hand I feel strained and slightly sick, as if it's harder work than I can cope with. I suspect this may be because I learned the fine motor control for handwriting quite early, but it takes up quite a few 'processing cycles'. Similar to the way many auties can cope with more than one voice in a room or fluorescent lighting until it trips their personal threshold for 'too much right now'. So I don't find what you're saying hard to understand; maybe it just takes your brain a lot of effort.

Popular neurologist Harold Klavans has been known to say reading is a bodge in evolutionary terms. Our brains haven't evolved to read the way they've evolved to speak, and shifting modalities between sound (for words) and vision (for written words) offers all sorts of opportunities for things to go wrong.

In my case I find reading seems natural to me; this is almost certainly because (due to the fact I have a slight physical disability) I picked up reading when I was about three, and felt words, songs and stories didn't hold me back the way the lack of physical skills did. I was writing by hand when I was about six, probably, so it probably takes more mental effort for me than reading.

I'm adding a voice from the other side of your argument:

I'm the other way round. I read too fast for my own good, and often realise I've missed out something important. There's probably an optimal speed between 'too fast' and 'too slow'. If you're really incredibly slow so that you've forgotten the beginning of the sentence by the time you get to the end, that probably is bad, but in general 'slow-ish' could be a better grounding for 'understanding and retaining' what you've read than 'too fast'.

How does your speed of reading affect your comprehension? I think it's only in the case that it gets in the way of understanding what you read where it's necessarily a problem, or if it tires you out so much you feel you want to stop reading after five minutes. There are probably things you can do to help yourself, although it looks as if a lot of the speed reading stuff one sees lying around is advertising. You don't find many articles in the paper or chapters in books mentioning speed reading, but you find tons of advertising. Anything with that ratio of advertising to information should probably be approached with caution.

It dosen't particularly drain me, but I often find it hard to stay completely focused on reading, so I end up getting lost in my thoughts and pretty much can't remember anything I just read. This is quite a normal thing, though, NTs often do it too.

I would say that I'm an average reader,but I don't feel drained after reading a book.

I read pretty fast too myself. The spreeder was easy to read with the flashing words. lol

Yes, I find it takes me longer to read.

1. I often need to read passages twice or more to fully comprehend.

2. I sometimes get person, places, and times confused in a story that isn't strictly linear.

3. The way text is traditionally written causes me to often return my eye to the same or a previous line rather than the following one.

4. My mind tends to drift while reading and I realize I have missed information and need to go back.