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Jun 26 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
ADHDers who struggle to read, have you tried audiobooks?

How did you find it?

Would you recommend it to other ADHDers?

#askadhd
I know a lot of ADHDers struggle to concentrate on words, or lose track of sentences mid sentence.

I have never struggled to read (for recreation) myself, but reading for me was fantasy escapism (and maladaptive if anything), but I am curious to know about others' experience.
Oh, and this goes without saying, but listening to audiobooks is reading.

This post was inspired from seeing multiple people talk about how it isn't, but it 100% is the same, especially if you find it hard to read due to impairment.

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Rejection, disappointment, failure.. how do you deal with it?

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