/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15139985]

Easy books for an A(DHD)non to read?

[Anonymous No.15140002]

>>15139985
Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, The Stranger, The Great Gatsby. Short and easy books are the way to go for building up an attention span.
t. actually diagnosed with ADHD

[Anonymous No.15140830]

>>15140002
thanks for the recs, i'll look into em!

[Anonymous No.15141117]

>>15139985
I have ADHD too. The key thing is start with books you actually want to read and are interested in. Don't reach for all the intense shit /lit/ says you should be into (at first anyway)
Doesn't matter if they aren't high art. I got started with ted-talky audiobooks, then progressed onto ted-talky books, then onto more complex books, and now i'm able to crack most of the stuff lit talks about.

Don't try to force it. Try to put in time to read, say 25 pages in the morning after you wake up and 25 pages before you go to sleep. Hopefully it will become an enjoyable routine and you will continue it.

Good luck anon!

PS: From my experience, my 'Attention deficit' is towards things that i think are pointless BS. That's not a bad thing! Try to fill your life with things you actually care about, or if not, try and see how certain things you don't like are actually interesting.

[Anonymous No.15141481]

>>15141117
Thanks anon! In your experience, has adderall made it easier to focus on things you're not interested in?

[Anonymous No.15141499]

Animorphs.

[Anonymous No.15142284]

>>15139985
I have ADHD and also OCD which makes me feel the need to read a sentence over and over for sometimes even minutes. Makes it such a drag but I love reading and it gets better the more you read. Murakami and Mishima have a lot of good short books so I would reccomend them. I just got the stranger and siddartha which will take me 2 weeks if I spend all day on them. also I got ritalin but it just made the OCD worse and made me feel like shit

[Anonymous No.15143197]

>>15139985
World War Z
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Mein Kampf (Micheal Ford translation)

[Anonymous No.15144269]

>>15139985
adhd is real, as it can be identified with brain scans (several variants exist), but i feel like a lot of people are deluding themselves with this. its very easy to be diagnosed with adhd...no brain scan required.

[Anonymous No.15144663]

>>15139985
Only read books that you find interesting and exciting. If you look up the synopsis of a classic and it’s really not for you, don’t force yourself to buy it just to check it off your list. Read stuff you like.
If you haven’t read a book in a while and your attention span is always drifting, start small with just ten pages a night, and start to increase to 20 or so pages a night. Once you get past that ‘hump’ a lot of books have in the beginning by starting small you’ll be hooked.
Reading comes easier the more reading you do.

[Anonymous No.15144860]

>>15144269
Yeah it's definitely over diagnosed, but the amount of those who just THINK they have it is far more irksome

[Anonymous No.15145015]

>>15139985
>>15140002
Some of the recs this guy gave you are short and overly simplistic. I have ADHD, and I find it's nice to read complicated stuff with brevity so you flex your brain but also don't get burned out. Borges stories, the shorter Pynchon books, and As I Lay Dying are good examples of this. The goal is to push yourself out of your comfort zone, not stay complacent in where you are

[Anonymous No.15145040]

>>15144663
This anon speaks the pure and wholesome truth.

[Anonymous No.15145153]

>>15145015
He said "easy books", you massive pseud and short books are best for building up attention.