Slow Processing Speed, Cognitive Deficits

[Pasiphaessa]

I remember I used to read a lot when I was younger and I was able to keep my focus fairly well, all I did during my recess/lunch breaks at school was reading. But now I can barely read a forum thread, how sad. lol

I can really relate to this. When I was young I loved reading and learning. Now it takes me months to finish a book and I'm only 34. It doesn't matter if it's fiction or nonfiction. Constructing a world inside my head from the details I read in a novel seems to take so much more mental power than it did when I was a teenager. And when I read nonfiction now I sometimes have to read it aloud to really absorb the information. And reading an entire book out loud is physically exhausting to my mouth and voice. My jaw gets sore from the hours of talking to myself.

I'm truly thankful there's so much information on youtube now on all sorts of things, from lectures people have filmed to documentaries. But youtube videos aren't usually that in-depth.