I can explain. I'm dyslexic and my particular form negatively impacts reading comprehension (it made my masters thesis next to impossible). But whilst I have the reading ability of an 8 year old, I lay a mean pipe and have many children. Essentially dyslexics are just out breeding you. Soz

Am I the only one that's scared this isn't from social media / attention span but actually maybe that a long term side effect of COVID could partly explain this? I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory and I've never heard anyone phrase it like I'm doing right now but it seems like this virus changes how we think. I've heard people say for the first time in their life they couldn't control their thoughts, my father couldn't stop having nightmares for multiple nights...

Are you calking me illiterate? Wtf man, get out tankie.

/s /j

Yeah, I feel like people just wanna start a fight without even reading what the actual argument is.

Ever since i started using lemmy i started misreading words a lot

No. I have not. I think there has been a decent sized chunk of the population who has never had much interest in reading anything. That percentage has not made a noticeable spike.

Rampant untreated adult-onset ADHD

I've just been assuming it's LLMs. From the CCP, advertisers, etc.

Recently, I often misread words or even add ones that are not there. Long, complex sentences are very difficult to understand for me. I feel like primary school me would ridicule modern me.

just because they're not reading comprehensive skills doesn't mean they're not learning