How does it affect your ability to enjoy books? Or type of books you’d enjoy?

Do you tend to prefer more visual medium like video(movies, tv), or comic books?

  • Drusas
    27•4 days ago

    I’ve always been a huge reader, and a fast one. Í wonder if visualizing what you read slows people down.

    I also have trouble recognizing faces (mild/moderate prosopagnosia), and it’s easier to recognize a name in a book than a face in a movie.

    • Max-P
      8•4 days ago

      Í wonder if visualizing what you read slows people down.

      Not really, I can read very fast too and also visualize it at the same time, like full blown movie. I think it’s more indicative of information processing abilities in general: I can generally keep up watching lectures at 3x speed and notice things on screen almost instantly too.

      I’m super efficient at filtering information too: I’ll look at a paragraph in some documentation and immediately see “If you’re in X special case, then…” at the 5th sentence in the middle of the paragraph when skimming through documentation. Or of course skipping details I don’t care about.

    • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      5•4 days ago

      I have exactly this problem. It’s also very difficult when watching a movie adaptation of a book I’ve read, to associate the character from the book with the actor in the movie. When I read, they’re just a name.

    • @einkorn@feddit.org
      3•4 days ago

      I wonder if visualizing what you read slows people down.

      Yes, especially when the author probably got their inspiration during an LSD trip.