Oisín<p>Lots of us watch videos or listen to podcasts at 2x speed, right? This seems to be a pretty well known thing. Less than 1.75 just always seems too slow for me. </p><p>But this is only true when someone is speaking normally. If someone is reading from a script, it sounds completely unnatural to me, and I can't process it all, even at normal speed, unless I concentrate exceptionally hard. </p><p>Someone suggested that maybe it's that the average person isn't very good at reading aloud, but I don't think it's that. Even top-rated audiobooks are also entirely impossible to listen to.</p><p>Doe anyone else relate to any of this, or have any pointers to anything where I could learn more? I've read some stuff on <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AuditoryProcessingDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuditoryProcessingDisorder</span></a>, but most of that doesn't apply to me, and I'm struggling to find anything else related.</p><p>One clue seems to be that stand-up comedy seems to work, even though that's mostly scripted. I don't really know what the difference is, but my guess would be that they work hard at making it sound natural, whereas most people reading speak in a different manner. But I don't have the vocabulary for describing any of this, so don't know how to google for more.</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingNeurodivergents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingNeurodivergents</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingAutistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingAutistics</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AskingADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AskingADHD</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ADHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autism</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/Hyperlexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperlexia</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/APD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APD</span></a></p>