Oh, is some distant land still printing summaries on the back? Can I perhaps move there?

And nah, I'm fairly picky about what I'm interested in. I'll take recs and I've been trying to branch out, but it's very hit or miss and you can imagine how helpful it is to me to know Random Celebrity #3173's secretary glanced at the first draft and thought it was pretty alright.

It's really nice to see someone other than me voice that irritation. I never really got into mysteries for that reason. The very few I picked up seemed to tend towards random twists that would have been commendable had I any way to have ever possibly arrived at that solution. Probably others like the Aha moment, but it felt unfair

Lmao, yes but I stopped reading entirely. Just. Completely. I used to be one of those people who would keep multiple books going at once and it could almost be concerning.

But then I met my ex and it just wasn't as interesting as reality was. I don't believe we ever even formally asked each other out, we just wordlessly started dating. And for me, I could waste my time with dragons and undead and unknowable horrors, or I could go to Walmart with them. It didn't measure up. It never would again.

That was 12 years ago. I'm trying to get back into it and I've had some success with the right authors but it's incredibly hit or miss and I never lose all sense of myself like I used to when I read.

For you, I think that your viewpoint has just changed. Things are brighter, and it's not surprising to want something brighter to match. I hope things work out well for you <3

Well yeah, but that's always still with the audible words when I do it. I just also have an internal movie with my monologue. Which is important in this case because when I'm not reading something, I don't think in words.

I know you could have just the one with aphantasia but I can't begin to imagine the other way around, being able to comprehend a sentence you're not reading out to yourself. It's like...enjoying art with your eyes closed.

I don't believe it. Reading posts like this reminds me of that one post about the girl that went to therapy over hearing "voices" and found out she just thinking.