Everything at 1.5 x speed

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Does anyone else listen to podcasts / radio catch and TV at 1.5 x speed or more?

I can’t bear to watch at normal speed anymore. Will only watch on Netflix because it has that option. Disney+ doesn’t.

It all seems so slow and laborious at normal speed.

I started using the timer in one monthly meeting I run that includes all senior management and a lot of management. I gave everyone 2 minutes. It worked really well - the meeting went from 75 minutes to 50 minutes and we all still get the info we need.

If people miss bits there is a recording, transcript and summary.

I worked out it saves the company at least $10k a year in time saved.

Thank you for explaining. I know ADHD (and everything else) is frequently misunderstood, misdiagnosed or poorly and inaccurately explained on social media. I am on Mumsnet so was clearly speaking anecdotally and not citing research. I said it was instagram so people knew what my sources were.

Personally I find it really difficult to read books. Especially fiction. I’ve managed to study at post graduate level by moving text into speech and following it with my finger like primary school. I never understood why people found reading relaxing.

I would feel sad in a weird existential way for filmmakers who put so much love and care into their craft, where every scene, every lingering tracking shot has a meaning.

It's interesting. I watched Legally Blonde and the dvd had deleted scenes with an overview from the director/editor (I didn't pay much attention to who he was tbh). He was saying 'this scene was funny but it didn't add to the story' or 'this scene was cute but we already know that about Elle'. It's never really occurred to me that it's done in that way. When I'm watching a movie, it is what it is. All I know is that I get a physical discomfort when a film has the wrong pace, and the wrong storyline. It irritates me when there are bits of a film that don't need to be there, or seem really deliberate. It's like a physical agitation.

Similarly, music. I like what I like. It's only later (and it can be years later) that I realise that all the songs I like have lots of instrumental content, meaningful lyrics, a similar tempo. It can be years before I realise that song x, y, and z are sung by the same singer.

The thing with ADHD is that it's always been in me. I was a precocious reader and I would read Reader's Digest 'You and Your Rights' from cover to cover when I was young. I would literally devour all the examples of legal cases and challenges. Then I'd get to the end and start again. I've always needed to know everything about a subject. I've always moved on from subject to subject.

With reading you can set the pace. With video, you're at the mercy of the presenter/talker/director.

I'm really grateful for the x1.5 button!

I’m an academic so basically have to remind myself of the texts before I go into seminars. There are some I’ve been teaching for ages so remember like the back of my hand but others not so much meaning I have to read super fast to get up to speed. Plus I have my own research to do on the side so lots of papers to absorb. I can take the information in at 1.75 so basically why not!

I read The Handmaid’s Tale yesterday cover to cover in about 4 hours. I watched a video yesterday on LinkedIn from a professor at Oxford who explained how humans fill in the words around a certain word within a sentence in order to read faster which I definitely know I do. It isn’t a bad or impatient thing.

I think it's interesting. A friend of mine was talking yesterday about a book she's reading about the evolution of society and how in the early days we would have spent a few hours hunting and gathering, then have rest breaks. Then agricultural revolution hit, and suddenly the fields and the animals need tending all the time. We moved on (in our rambling way!) to talking about how the advent of the computer sped society up. We used to write letters that would be hand delivered by horse and cart. Then mail centres were born and we have lorries transporting mail and you get a letter within a day or two. Then the internet was born and with it came email. Suddenly, you can reply instantly to people. Even here on Mumsnet. Albeit asynchronously, we're having a conversation with many people all sharing their thoughts, considering their positions, responding in the moment. In years gone by someone might write a single letter to a newspaper (if the subject seemed important enough to spend the time in doing so), then someone else would decide if it was published, then a few weeks later, someone else would have their reply published.

There is a small subset of the younger generation who are rejecting technology though. DD3 goes to an independent special school where phones are allowed. She doesn't look at her phone at all in the day because she says that she feels she would miss out on being fully present and experiencing school life. She really only uses her phone to look up how to do a certain craft, etc.