Try to read a book

>try to read a book
>too autistically ADHD to pay attention to it
>read the words but have no idea what they signify
>have to read a passage at least once, very slowly to actually understand it

how do I fix this problem? I want to be able to read.

practice practice practice. isolate yourself for about an hour a day and just read, and keep at it.

play tennis, it's therapeutic

don't i have to buy some faggy bandana and then kill myself for this to work?

>not banana to make a mixed meme
ya blew it

yeah but if tennis is your life you end up dependent on smoking some high-resin Bob Hope

Select a piece of time for it.

For a time I was not much of a reader. After a break up I was kind of lost on what to do with my life, every monday, because I don't work that day, I would go to a cafe after lunch and read for an hour. Then I'd stop, I did not spend a whole afternoon there. I started craving for reading more and eventually I was reading in bed before sleep, in the bus, and still going to that cafe.

>have to read a passage at least once, very slowly to actually understand it

Das it mane. Just do this, then realize that before fast food and internet pornography, people had to work for gratification.

I struggled to read consistently until I turned a room into a reading area with no clock, no electronics that can distract me, a good light source and a comfortable enough chair to sit for hours.

As soon as I had to leave the room to become distracted I found it easier to keep reading undisturbed.

That's a great idea, I will ask Jeeves to prepare the spare sitting room in the east wing.

unless you're homeless, you have room somewhere to section off a space, and if you're homeless you have all the room in the world

I've never said this before in my life, but unironically check your fuckin privilege, m8

Maybe I will see if I can get a nice armchair in my bathroom. I live in a 1 room bedsit in the middle of a major city because I am True Lit.

oh shut up and just isolate and practice like i said.

>have to read a passage at least once
that sucks, most people can read passages in less than one attempt

oh cool, if you live in a major city go sit in a fucking library

Maybe a shower curtain would be a good thing to isolate a corner in a room like you said?

>tfw i thought no one else noticed this

There is electronics in a library and other books and computers with internet on and hot literature girls.

no. sit on your fucking bed, turn off your computer or phone, open the book, and practice reading.

What if I'm reading on my computer or phone?

then you need to get a book from that library and turn off your phone. i'm not trying to be mean, but if this concept is difficult for you, maybe you should take up a different hobby?

Maybe I will take up writing. What's the best way I can do that without distraction?

by reading without distraction first.

I have the same problem too except that my eyes get strained easily

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

You really shouldn't read in bed, except maybe for a short while as you prepare to sleep. Other than that, bed should be reserved for sleep and sex.
Anyway, to my last point, really not everyone has the ability to demarcate space to read. Only a few years ago I was in a situation where I was renting a tiny room thay could just barely fit my mattress. The other occupants whom I was renting from were always having people over, playing loud music, drinking excessively and doing all kinds of drugs (not that I judge, I frequently joined in). It would've been impossible to set aside any space to read. Of course I could have, as I think you suggested earlier, gone elsewhere, but my point is the same. Just because you've always had access to something doesn't mean everyone else has.

i honestly have this problem aswell
even fuckin playing video games i have to be listening to youtube videos or netflix on the side.
doing only one thing at a time is fucking boring my man, get with the multi-tasking master race

there is no such thing as multitasking ;)

>what is ADHD

The brain cannot multitask. You simply switch between different foci because you got an attention problem.

>what is driving

>Read a sentence.
>Can't even remember what I read.

>Try to understand a philosophical/abstract concept.
>Can't even form a clear picture of such.

i have like 90 iq and i hate it. i'm so fucking stupid and every minute I read I am reminded of it.

shit memory combined with shit intelligence is a shit human, might as well kys myself.

i don't have ADHD! >:0
ADHD is a made up ailment to sell pills to kids
i just can't stand the silence

A combination of automatisms, muscle memory and rapidly shifting foci.

this will help you deal with the silence.