• 13p@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I gave up on watching movies and TV because of this. What’s the point when it becomes a chore after the first 2 minutes to keep watching lol, and I just forget what happened by the next day anyway.

    • Atomfried W. Megaforce@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I can relate to this. It’s more like “listening to movies and series” for me. My eyes are on my phone, playing a mini game or looking at memes

    • Atomfried W. Megaforce@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Without my phone I’m paying even less attention. I need to play a game or something.

      Same thing when reading a book. I have to listen to music (without lyrics) to keep my brain focussed

  • ditto [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m okay with movies and tv shows. But it takes me hours to listen to a 30 minute podcast unless I’m doing absolutely nothing else BUT listening to that podcast

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      Often I’m fascinated how different ADHD can be. I’m the exact opposite: I need to do things to be able to listen to a podcast. Otherwise I wouldn’t be able to focus more than a minute.

      Doesn’t matter which things I’m doing as long I don’t have to read or write. Cleaning, riding a bike, play a game.

  • uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Movies are invariably phone or swich time, at least at home. The spectacle of the theater helps a lot for me tho. Going out and making a whole thing of it, in an environment where distractions are forbidden, makes it a lot easier to focus.

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        Apps I can’t do much about, but as for browsers, I downloaded this extension a while back so I could watch YouTube videos at higher than 2x (it can go up to 16x, in adjustable increments down to 0.01x (default 0.05, I set it to 0.1)), and quickly discovered that it works on all sites that play video, including Netflix and Disney+, which has been very handy. If you use a Chromium-based browser, there’s no doubt an equivalent – I just found it through the highly scientific method of typing “video speed control extension” into Google, installing the first couple hits, picking which one I liked best, and uninstalling the others.