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Do you guys have difficulties watching movies? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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IDK if this is a normal thing for people with ADHD but do you guys find it hard to watch movies? There always super slow paced and require hours worth of your attention. I can watch movies but only if I really try and that's a very draining experience. I only like watching movies if I'm really high.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use VLC and watch at double speed for most things. Honestly I just skip movies and TV mostly but the stuff I do watch is at double speed for most things, sometimes 1.5x because people look weird moving fast when they are doing action scenes.

Now podcasts and audio books on the other hand are very amenable to increased speeds. The narrator increasing the speed just increases the rate of intake, the mental simulation is still at a reasonable speed, just less time waiting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone know why the double speed thing works? It's very effective for me too, I usually keep video at 1.5x often will have to jump it up to 2x to be able to handle it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I can only speak for myself but if I have a fast enough input my spare resources are low, so I can't think about something else easily. This means I don't find something more interesting or forget what I am doing. I think neurotypical people enjoy pacing in a way I find impossible. They like the anticipation, the waiting can build the experience, whereas my internal systems just get hired and drop the boring thing rather than building anticipation.