how do I get into reading when I am a 21 year old autist with a 1 minute attention span who's addicted to social media slop. where do I begin?
>>25168086Do you want to or not?If you want to, then doIf you do not want to, then don'tDo you think that reading will send your little hat a' spinning? Better get to it then, flyboy
>>25168086Start with Catcher in the Rye, Flowers for Algernon, or The Metamorphosis unironically.
>>25168086>21You were born too late I’m afraid, just accept that your brain will always be this way
>>25168254letters to a young poet, sorrows of young werther, kurt vonnegut, murakami etc.
>>25168086>how do I get into reading find something you enjoy and stick with it, it really is that simple
>>25168086>1 minute attention span who's addicted to social media slopSeparate accounts on phone, strictly educational only. Blue light filter app maxed out. Low carb, low caffeine, low alcohol (all strip Vitamin B1, an ADHD therapeutic). Read non-zero daily, and outside if possible. Have a fiction, and a non-fiction queue. Find an author you really enjoy, and get in the habit of reading all of their works.
>>25168086Go read The Little Match Girl to get startedIt may only take a minute or two
>>25168086Start with philosophy, it's a good jumping off point for a lot of stuff. I started with Schopenhauer's essays and aphorisms before going into his main work and just diving for information in that matter.
>>25168389>being this retarded
>>25168086start with the greeks
>>25168091Yeah there's no reason to force yourself to read if it's not something you truly enjoy.But if you really really want to, start off with easy books. Read YA and genre fiction. Maybe try books that movies or TV shows you like are adapted from - Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes stories, Lord of the Rings, whatever.
>>25168086Unironically start with comics
A love of reading starts in childhood. At 21 it's far too late.
shakespeare, plato, borges
>>25168700this is more cringe than when gloria's fat mom came to our high school and tried to get everyone to do the macarena in the middle of the quad while we were comfortable eating snacks
>>25168254these are good suggestionsi would say start with short stories. anything, really, anything short and accessible that can be finished in like half an hour. if you read one short story every day for a month, you will build the internal psychological momentum you need to eventually start approaching novels, historical non fiction or whatever you want to read.melville, lovecraft, joyce, borges, faulkner, poe, lots of great writers have 5-15 page long short stories that you can read in under a half hour with a normal reading speed.
>>25168393Nah, I’d say it’s good advice. Starting with the ancient greek philosophers is the best way for philosophy, but I decided to read Schopenhauer’s writings first because I didn’t know.Starting with anything else (especially genre fiction) only serves to confuse OP, and it is why you are confused also.
>>25168740>engages in the hallmark behavior of the retard>doubling down>expecting to be taken serious as an example of how to be and what to do>disregards any path besides the one they chose>has personality disorder
>>25168086Serious answer?Deliberately train your focus, your brain will adaptThe buddhists have this practice of purposefully focusing on one single object for 5 minutes, everytime their attention deviates, they put the attention back on the objectDo that long enough until your brain adaptsAlso I recommend blocking social media with extensions, etc during your reading time
>>25168086Pick up a copy of Robert Graves' Greek Mythology retellings, short stories that you will likely have some knowledge of from popular culture. Start by reading one or two a day, you will enjoy them. Uninstall all the scrolling "reel" type apps, and stop watching porn. Once you've finished your book, provided you found it rewarding and enjoyed reading for longer and longer periods, decide what you would like to read next. If you found that you are interested in continuing with the Greeks with your new basis of mythology knowledge, pick up a copy of Fagles or Lattimore's Illiad. If you enjoyed the mythology but don't think your ready for Homer, or you aren't that interested in the Greeks, try reading The Hobbit. It's aimed at children, but is incredibly readable and its prose is not simplified or childish, but it is very cosy and heartwarming. After this you may want to read Lord of the Rings as a natural progression from the Hobbit. If not interested in those, try some short modern American classics: of Mice and Men, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby. These are short, and well written enough without being too complex for you to get a good start. You should also start reading some poems, read the ones that are often taught in schools, but are solid poems: Ozymandias, The Seafarer, Shakespeare's Sonnets. These will build up your understanding of poetic language and form, and if they spark your interest you can get yourself a collection of poems and see what you like, try English Romantic Verse from Penguin.
>>25168750>strawman: the postNo further replies niggerfaggot.
>>25168808>triples down>heard the concept of strawman once>uses it>gets increasingly more irate>has learned a lot from philosophy>proves in 3 replies that no one should follow in their path
>>25168086force your brain to
>>25168759you need to go back to high school and learn how to write, seeing twitterfags space out each sentence as its own line/paragraph makes me irrationally fuming, it's clearly a residual marketing tactic to attract phone readers with adhd
nice hat you got there.
>>25168086As some others have suggested, start short. You can start really short by way of poetry, such as that written by Mary Oliver or Langston Hughes. Check their work out online at the Poetry Foundation.Then, you can move on to short stories, like Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", Ernest Hemingway's "Hills like White Elephants", or O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi".Novellas are the next step up, which include George Orwell's "Animal Farm" or Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's". All of these you can surely find online, if you physically can't wrest yourself from your phone. If possible, finding them (or similar works) at a local library will help wean you off of it.Personally, I recommend going to your notes app and writing down exactly what you read, how many pages you read, on what day, and if you finished it. This helps keep you accountable."The Daily Canon" is an app that one of my friends has suggested recently, which presents you with one important work of literature every day and includes a quote from it, a short description, as well as letting you track which works you've read. Could be useful to get the "hit" of checking a social media daily replaced with one that feeds into your new desire for literature.
>>25168086>when I am a 21 year old autist with a 1 minute attention span who's addicted to social media slopThe first step is to stop identifying with your perceived limitations.
>>25168086Download books on your phone and, in the 3 minutes you're not watching a youtube video or on 4chan or whatever, read a couple of pages. that's what I do
find a topic you're genuinely interested in. read in a library. if your social media addiction encompasses streaming/podcasts, then I'd suggest trying out an audiobook until you're invested and then read the text (maybe try this while doing something like drawing).>>25169284i know people who manage to read entire books on their phone but i don't think it's the best advice for someone struggling with their attention span
>>25168793Best advice ITT
>>25168086>>25168734OP for the love of God the all mighty do NOT start with Borges.
>>25169336If his attention is on his phone already it just takes a few extra thumb swipes.
Start with an easy-to-read fiction novella - maybe Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies or The Old Man and the Sea. Its all about building habits - read at least one page a day. If you feel like reading more after finishing that one page, go for it. If not, leave it at the one page.
>>25169007>residual marketing tactic to attract phone readers with adhdI thought it was literal Reddit-spacing. They are used to double-spacing for readability, even though it's not necessary here.
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Start by reading silly stuff that interests you. Then you grow in to forcing yourself to read boring stuff considered classics that will make people think you're smart
Start with Prost.
>>25168086Don't start with short stories. Even those are too long.Try The Book of Disquiet.
>>25168086Start with the Greeks
>>25168086Start with manga and graphic novels. Move on to YA and light novels afterwards. Then to whatever genre you're interested in after that.
ITT every possible opinion and starting point
